Current Exhibits

August 27- December 13, 2021

"In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library" by photographer R. B. Kitaj, 1932-2007, in Beeghly Library.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, R.B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj is considered a key figure in European and American contemporary painting. While his work has been considered controversial, he is regarded as a master draughtsman with a commitment to figurative art. His highly personal paintings and drawings reflect his deep interest in history; cultural, social and political ideologies; and issues of identity.

His various honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. In 1985 he became the first American since Sargent to be elected to the Royal Academy. Numerous retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, including shows at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, the Tate Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and most recently The Jewish Museum, Berlin, The Jewish Museum, London and the Hamburger Kunsthalle. In 1997 he left London and moved to Los Angeles, where he died in 2007.

Beeghly Library is at 43 Rowland Ave.

The Kuhlman Gallery at the Ross Art Museum features Pattern Drift: Cityscape, a mid-career survey of art by Philadelphia-based printmaker Amze Emmons. It presents selections from three main bodies of work in which the city serves as background and context for the art. Emmons’ images show his virtuosity as a printmaker and draftsman, as well as inspiration by mechanical illustration, cartoon language, and newspaper journalism. The artist is an Ohio Wesleyan graduate and an associate professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

This exhibit is online only.

This biannual exhibit by the studio art faculty showcases the broad range of talent in the Department at Ohio Wesleyan University. Although the works in the exhibit speak in different voices and cover a wide range of media, they are united by the seriousness of each faculty member's inquiries into particular issues of form, content, and process.

Now Online
Students in Ohio Wesleyan University’s ART 492 class have created an online “Past to Present: OWU’s Evolution” art exhibition that showcases how the university’s academics, student life, places, and extracurricular activities have, or haven’t, changed over time.