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The McDonough opens 2025 with five dynamic exhibitions on January 21! |
The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University's Center of Contemporary Art, is excited to announce it will open 2025 with five dynamic exhibitions. Julia Betts's The Dams are Broken; Anna Chapman's Underworld/Otherworld; Emerging Artist Abby Cipar's Sometime, Somehow, For You; Will Hutnick's QUEER HORIZONS and Sidney Mullis's Caught Skies and Pillowed Pines (Black Forest) will be on display January 21 through February 28. A closing reception for all the exhibitions will be held on Friday, February 28 from 5-7pm.
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Julia Betts's The Dams are Broken |
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Of her work for this exhibition Julia Betts states, “The Dams are Broken oscillates between containment and release, shifting fluidly between abstract and recognizable forms. It explores the body as a fragile vessel—a container of identity that delineates the self from the world beyond. Yet within it stirs a restless desire: a hunger to rupture those boundaries and let identity spill forth, dissolving into something limitless and unconfined.”
Currently, Betts is an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, and her sculptures, installation, and performance work has been exhibited nationally and has appeared in several publications.
• McDonough Lecture: February 5, 5:30pm
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Anna Chapman's Underworld/Otherworld |
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Anna Chapman is an artist and educator investigating transformative approaches to art making, community practice, and connection to land in light of destabilized socio-ecological contexts.
Chapman describes her work in Underworld/Otherworld declaring, “Death is an undeniable aspect of all our lives. Yet there is little space carved out in culture to process personal, collective, and environmental loss. To grieve is to love. Grief has the power to rearrange us; to ground us and to give us wisdom. Preparing us with integrity for what comes next. How do we move through the underworld to meet the Otherworld?”
• McDonough Lecture: January 22, 5:30pm
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Emerging Artist, Abby Cipar's Sometime, Somehow, For You
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Emerging artist Abby Cipar states that the artwork presented in Sometime, Somehow, For You is “Performing as stand-ins for my own, trans-nonbinary body, my work is that of an assembling. I am thinking about the simultaneous strangeness and beauty of my body, as it exists in a pre-medical, not-quite-there-but-getting-there state of transition and affirmation.”
A multidisciplinary artist, arts advocate, curator, and wage laborer with roots in Northeast Ohio Cipar’s work has been exhibited nationally and can be found in several private collections throughout the US.
• McDonough Lecture: February 12, 5:30pm
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Will Hutnick's QUEER HORIZONS |
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Will Hutnick’s work vibrates at the intersection of the natural environment, digital spaces, and queerness. According to the artist, “the disruption of a heteronormative sense of time - and by extension, sense of place - is inherently queer, oscillating in a present tense that is not fixed. We’re moving at a pace that is becoming ridiculously challenging to keep up with, which, it seems, has little hope of slowing down anytime soon. The present is right now and just out of reach.”
Hutnick has had numerous solo national exhibitions and received grants, residencies as both an artist and curator and fellowships. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.
• McDonough Lecture: February 27, 5:30pm
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Sidney Mullis's Caught Skies and Pillowed Pines (Black Forest) |
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Sidney Mullis is a sculptor who lives and works in Pittsburgh. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been featured in several art periodicals. She has had artist residencies throughout the country.
Mullis says of her work that, " the installation, Caught Skies and Pillowed Pines, is a make-believe forest. It is an invented landscape to think about childhood selves and to find where they retreat to in adulthood. The forest–often considered a transformational space in children’s stories–is built of many parts that come together as sculptural installations."
• McDonough Lecture: February 20, 5:30pm
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JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 28
Julia Betts | The Dams are Broken
Anna Chapman | Underworld/ Otherworld
Emerging Artist Abby Cipar | Sometime, Somehow, For You
Will Hutnick | QUEER HORIZONS
Sidney Mullis | Caught Skies and Pillowed Pines (Black Forest)
• Reception: Friday, Feb. 28, 5-7pm
JANUARY 22, 5:30pm
• McDonough Lecture: Anna Chapman
FEBRUARY 5, 5:30pm
• McDonough Lecture: Julia Betts
FEBRUARY 12, 5:30pm
• McDonough Lecture Abby Cipar
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FEBRUARY 20, 5:30pm
• McDonough Lecture: Sidney Mullis
FEBRUARY 27, 5:30pm
• McDonough Lecture: Will Hutnick
MARCH 12, 5:30pm
• Lost and Unmade: the films of Bruce Checefsky
MARCH 21 – APRIL 4
88th Annual Juried Student Art & Design Exhibition
• Reception: Friday, March 21, 5-7pm
APRIL 18-MAY 3
Spring 2025 Graduating BFA Exhibition
• Reception: Friday, April 18, 5-7pm
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Gallery Hours-see the exhibits! |
The McDonough Museum of Art galleries are open Tuesday-Saturday from 11am-4pm. The exhibitions are free and open to the public.
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Youngstown State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, disability, age, religion or veteran/military status in its programs or activities. Please visit the Digital Accessibility Home Page for contact information for persons designated to handle questions about this policy.
These exhibitions are made possible in part by state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio Legislature to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically.
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