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More/New Silk Roads
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Catie Dillon, The Brightest Star
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September Exhibition & Events The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, celebrating 30 years as Youngstown State University's Center of Contemporary Art, is excited to announce the opening of our fall season with solo exhibitions by three dynamic artists. Words and Other Weapons/New Work by Patricia Bellan-Gillen and Diane Samuels' Three Scrolls will be on display September 7- October 30. Our Emerging Artist series introduces the paintings and sculptures of Catie Dillon in the galleries September 7- October 2. An opening reception for all the exhibitions will be held on Friday, September 10 from 5-7pm. Each of the artists will also give lectures at the McDonough throughout the run of the exhibitions.
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Words and Other Weapons/New Work by Patricia Bellan-Gillen
Patricia Bellan-Gillen's large scale drawing installations in Words and Other Weapons are both familiar and mysterious. Of her work Bellan- Gillen states, "On a visual level, the work continues the pairing of opposites: delicately rendered areas are set against jarring patterns, academically drawn passages are combined with awkwardly applied marks and realistically depicted images share the composition with bold abstract shapes. The intricate drawings are a personal meditation about how the past shadows the present and how words, ideas, dogmas, policies, doctrines, distortions and omissions can be weaponed. Recently retired from Carnegie Mellon University after 29 years as a professor in the School of Art, she currently lives and works in rural Western Pennsylvania. Bellan-Gillen’s paintings, prints and drawings have been the focus of over 50 solo exhibitions in both national and international venues. Bellan-Gillan will give a lecture on Thursday, September 16 at 5:10pm at the McDonough.
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Diane Samuels' Three Scrolls
Three Scrolls draws inspiration from three groundbreaking and timeless stories: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, or The Whale, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Richard Powers' The Overstory. "Through the painstaking act of transcription---writing out by hand whole texts in her meticulous micro-script---Diane Samuels gives physical form to the transformative experience of reading, mining her chosen texts as drawing, as narrative, and as process. In doing so, she invites viewers to inhabit a space between visual and verbal modes of perception, a space where the act of reading, writing and seeing vibrate with symphonic energy." Her work is in numerous private and public collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Samuels will give a lecture on Tuesday, October 5 at 5:10pm at the McDonough.
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Air Puddles Water Pockets
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Catie Dillon's Beyond Beyond Beyond
In Beyond Beyond Beyond, by our Emerging Artist Catie Dillon, viewers get a glimpse of the world created by the artist during this unprecedented time of ambiguity. "Inspired by fugitive visions of childhood and the nostalgia associated with recreational play, Dillon references her first memories of making: building blanket forts, mapping sidewalk chalk trails, weaving bracelets, and molding castles of sand. Looking to Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia, Dillon creates worlds inside worlds that are neither utopian or dystopian. Rather, Dillon’s worlds are intermediate spaces that allow for exploration and discovery and, crucially, facilitate a cognitive juncture in the realities of daily life. " Currently residing in Pittsburgh, her work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Italy, and Portugal. Dillon will give a lecture on Wednesday, September 22 at 5:10pm at the McDonough.
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McDonough Gallery Hours
The McDonough galleries are open Tuesday- Saturday from 11:00 am-4:00 pm. The Museum if free and open to the public.
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Guidelines
The McDonough will be following the protocols put forth by the University in regards to COVID-19. Currently, face coverings are required in the Museum regardless of vaccination status. For the safety of our patrons, students and staff we ask that anyone with signs or symptoms of COVID-19 please refrain from attending exhibitions and events.
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