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January/February Newsletter
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January Exhibitions & Events
Join us in January at the John J. McDonough Museum of Art as we start the new year with four dynamic exhibitions with an opening on January 21 from 5-7pm. Matthew Kolodziej's Open Storage; Piotr Szyhalski's COVID-19 Labor Camp Report; Donald Black Jr.'s A Day No One Will Remember and Emerging Artists: Sarah Bowling, Han Diaspora Group, Laura Hudspith, Rosabel Rosalind & Rebecca Shapass's There are seams in purgatory will be on display through March 5. Our programming also includes several musical events including McDonough Student Honors Recital along with Muse and Pipino Series Events.
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Matthew Kolodziej's Open Storage
Matthew Kolodziej’s paintings explore themes of time, dislocation and forming perceptions using reference to architecture and archaeology. The exhibition, Open Storage, is designed to be a form of memory cabinet. Each of the paintings and drawings refer to another while changing scale, perspective or the amount of information presented. His background working on archaeological sites and building theatre sets informs an examination of what we make and destroy and how the contemporary landscape is defined by tangible material and, increasingly, by virtual space. The paintings and wall drawings are built upon collages of construction and demolition sites made from a mixture of physical fragments and perspectives. Kolodziej will give an artist talk on January 27 at 5:10pm.
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Piotr Szyhalski's COVID-19 Labor Camp Report
On March 24, 2020, in direct response to the global coronavirus pandemic, artist Piotr Szyhalski created his first COVID-19: Labor Camp Report. What started as a single drawing slowly morphed into a daily practice, a way to reconcile and record the thoughts, feelings, and change being wrought in the world. These ink drawings and hand-lettered texts were shared daily by Szyhalski on Instagram, poignantly capturing our politically fraught and painful landscape over the course of 225 days. Accompanied by powerful captions by the artist, the series operates as both a witness to the current crisis and container of time, time that is both labored and lost.
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Donald Black Jr.'s A Day No One Will Remember
Donald Black Jr.'s A Day No One Will Remember is a series of photographs of ordinary days that are filled with childhood play, imagination, quiet, creative expression, and innocence. Centering the Black child in this series is critical because of their premature loss of adolescence. Stories of childhood pain and trauma often dominate our memory. These images represent the balance against the mental suffering that takes place when personal trauma overwhelms us. Created in Donald Black Jr’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio—a city marked with violence, poverty, grief and trauma—these images carry the city’s gritty, moody and stark living conditions. Black’s personal familiarity with Cleveland allows these images to illuminate an authentic and literal “close to home” narrative. Donald Black Jr. will give an artist talk on February 23 at 5:10pm.
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Emerging Artists: Sarah Bowling, Han Diaspora Group, Laura Hudspith, Rosabel Rosalind & Rebecca Shapass's There are seams in purgatory
There are seams in purgatory explores the tension of betweenness as a state of both fullness and flux. Betweenness entangles the fluidity of power, the instability of control, the mistranslation of memory, and the inherent fragmentation and transformation that result in the process of becoming. This show challenges the agenda of becoming; a perpetual state of progress that is never quite realized, desired, or admired. There are seams in purgatory exists where the boundaries of identity, intimacy, and power are tested and transgressed.
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McDonough Student Honors Recital Series
This special recital series features current students from Dana School of Music. A live performance by Kayla Gilmore, a senior studying flute performance, will take place in the McDonough galleries on January 22 at 7:30pm.
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Muse Series
The Muse Series will feature a performance by pianist Melody Quah on January 26 at 7:30pm. She is an Assistant Professor of Piano at Penn State University. The Muse series features innovative expressions of contemporary culture. It serves to enrich Northeast Ohio with recitals of groundbreaking new music and dynamic collaborations.
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McDonough Gallery Hours The McDonough galleries are open Tuesday-Saturday from 11:00 am-4:00 pm. The Museum is 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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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 http://www.ysu.edu/ada-accessibility for contact information for person designated to handle questions about this policy.
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