Thu 9/8 @ 5:10PM
Fri 9/9 @ 5-7PM
Tue 9/6-Sat 10/29
Youngstown’s McDonough Museum opens its fall shows this weekend with five bodies of work by five diverse artists.
The best known locally is northeast Ohio-based Eva Kwong, whose show Hybridity will feature her endlessly creative takes on her sculpture practice. It’s composed of hand-built and 3D-printed forms in clay and PLA She has also provided watercolors by her late husband Kirk Mangus for another show titled What I See.
Cleveland Institute of Art graduate and lecturer Scott Goss’s Rise and Fall projects light onto found objects to look at how cities grow and decay over time. Kingston, Jamaica native Alisa Hernandez, who now teaches at the University of Michigan, draws digital images from a variety of sources and transforms them with materials such as paint, glitter, resin and synthetic hair to explore myths and narratives about female sexuality in her show The Constructed Body. And finally, Brooklyn’s Gavin Benjamin’s uses original photography and found images which he reworks with collage, paint and varnish in Heads of State.
The show’s reception is on Friday September 9 from 5-7pm. Hernandez will be doing an artist talk Thursday September 8 at 5:10pm in the McDonough lecture hall.
The exhibitions and reception are free and open to the public. The McDonough Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.