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Black Palimpsest: Jared Thorne

January 22 – March 26, 2023

Jared Thorne’s multimedia artworks bring a critical lens to a series of masks from the museum’s African Art holdings. Thorne’s project approaches these masks as palimpsests–objects where the original context has been effaced and overlaid with new meanings, but aspects of the original are still visible. The exhibit explores the cultural commodification of African art objects in Western museums while asking how these same objects signify history, identity, and authenticity for many African Americans. This exhibit is part of the Artists in the Archive series.

Please note: This exhibit features full frontal male nudity.

 

Kind of Blue

Jared Thorne, 2017, digital photograph.

Mask

unknown culture, unknown date, wood carving


Ohio Imprint: Dick Arentz & Brian Harnetty

January 22 – March 26, 2023

Interdisciplinary artist Brian Harnetty responds to a series of prints by photographer Dick Arentz from the museum’s Permanent Teaching Collection. Arentz’s platinum and palladium prints of Ohio focus on farms, factories, water towers, and other human made structures that shape the natural world. Harnetty revisited these sites and created sound collages and videos that reflect on themes of place, labor, history, the archive, and the ecological imprint of humans. This exhibit is part of the Artists in the Archive series.

Jackson, Ohio,

Dick Arentz, 1989, platinum/palladium print, 11 x 19 in.

Jackson, OH

Brian Harnetty, 2022, digital photograph.

Beeghly Library


Through the Belly of the Fish: Pamela Skehan

Opens January 30, 2023

Paintings by Pamela Skehan ’09 explore grief and loss resulting from seismic global changes. During a summer visit to a lake, Skehan caught a largemouth bass. Its struggle for survival became the inspiration for this series. Drawing on art historical research, these works use the metaphors of fish, water, and swimming to understand grief and the healing process.

The Deep End

Pamela Skehan, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 70 in, 2022.

Online Exhibits


History of the Richard M. Ross Art Museum

Learn about the genesis of the museum and its historic building through this online exhibit developed by students of History 250.

Omeka Exhibit

Richard M. Ross Art Museum


Women Behind The Lens

An exploration of works by women photographers from the permanent collection of the Ross Art Museum, celebrating arts patron Sally Ross Soter.

Exhibit will coincide with a companion exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art, in gallery 5 of the Ross Building, August 21, 2021 – May 8, 2022.

Watch the exhibit opening video Online Exhibit

Myself As A Pilot

by Ann Noggle


Deaf Republic: James Stewart

James Stewart’s paintings and ceramics interpret Ilya Kaminsky’s award-winning book of poetry Deaf Republic, in which a young deaf boy inspires a town’s resistance to military occupation.

‘Deaf Republic’ Reading with Ilya Kaminsky Conversation with Ilya Kaminsky and James Stewart More Information About James Stewart Watch the video for the ‘Disability as Power’ online program

Deaf Republic Cafe

by James Stewart

Lovers

by James Stewart

Murder ( After Bellini )

by James Stewart


Landscape through the Lens: Responses to William Henry Jackson

The West Gallery at the Ross Art Museum features Landscape through the Lens: Responses to William Henry Jackson. This exhibit brings four contemporary photographers—Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Zig Jackson, and Martina Lopez—into conversation with the work of 19th century landscape photographer William Henry Jackson. Through this lens, it examines the legacy of photography in relation to the development of the American West.

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Bring Your Cameras

by Zig Jackson

Angels Window

by Mark Klett and Bryon Wolfe

Flawed

by Martina Lopez


Past to Present: OWU’s Evolution (ART 492 Exhibit)

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.

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Sandusky St, Delaware

Gray Chapel

Day On The Jay, OWU

Orchesis Ensemble

OWU Football team

Vocal Ensemble

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