Current Exhibits
The museum staff plans and regularly mounts exhibitions in three buildings on the Ohio Wesleyan campus. Scroll down for more information about all of our current exhibitions.
Ross Art Museum
Double Take: Precision & Ambiguity in the Photograph
October 18 - December 13, 2018
Photographs became a ubiquitous form of documentation because they created accurate and detailed reproductions of life. However, the detail of these images frequently belies their ability to fully explain a situation, an experience, or a story. This exhibit explores photographic images in which the promise of accuracy is in tension with a sense of ambiguity, which image clarity cannot fully address.
Featuring works by Donna Ferrato, Dorothy Norman, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mark Klett, Harry Callahan and Ralph Gibson.
Organized by Jeff Nilan, Professor of Photography.
Bullet Holes
by Mark Klett
Weed Against Sky
Harry Callahan
Culinary Roots | Migratory Routes
October 18 - December 13, 2018
In this exhibition, art about food production and consumption reveals how what we eat is not just a source of nourishment but a force that creates, dissolves and reforms communities as immigrants both preserve and love the taste of home.
Organized by Dr Nancy Comorau, Associate Professor of English, assisted by Anna Davies ('19).
Altitude, 2011
by Hasan Elahi
Community Dining Room, Espanola Colony, 1996
by Kristin Capp
Mowry Alumni Gallery
Stephen Donaldson ’83: Blue Light
March 10 - November 15, 2018
Stephen Donaldson ’83 captures landmarks, landscapes, and locations in photographs that reflect his travels throughout the world.
Into the Void: 9/11 Memorial
by Stephen Donaldson ’83
Snow Blanket Detail
by Stephen Donaldson ’83
Venetian Glass
by Stephen Donaldson ’83
Moon over Maggiore
by Stephen Donaldson ’83
Gallery 2001 (Beeghly Library)
Tariq Taray: Stateless
October 1 - December15, 2018
A stateless person is someone who, under national laws, does not enjoy citizenship – the legal bond between a government and an individual – in any country. While some people are de jure or legally stateless persons (meaning they are not recognized as citizens under the laws of any state), many people are de facto or effectively stateless persons (meaning they are not recognized as citizens by any state even if they have a claim to citizenship under the laws of one of more states.) By letting his subjects dress and stand in a manner that suits their sense of themselves, Tariq captures the self-defined truth that was worth the sacrifice of leaving their home countries.
Mbuyi-Matamba, Congolese
by Tariq Tarey, 2106
Anisa Liban, Somali
by Tariq Tarey, 2017
Karzan
by Tariq Tarey, 2016