Jan. 18-March 26, 2023
Part of the Richard M. Ross Art Museum’s new Artists in the Archive series, with contemporary artists invited to bring their work into conversation with selections from the museum’s permanent teaching collection, in the West Gallery of the museum. For this exhibit, interdisciplinary artist Harnetty responds to a series of prints by photographer Arentz from the museum’s holdings. 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 revisits these sites and explores their contextual stories. The resulting sound collages, video, and photographs reflect on themes of place, labor, history, the archive, and the ecological imprint of humans. The exhibit will open with a public reception from 2-4 p.m. Jan. 22, 2023.
by Dick Arentz
Jan. 18-March 26, 2023
Part of the Richard M. Ross Art Museum’s new Artists in the Archive series, with contemporary artists invited to bring their work into conversation with selections from the museum’s permanent teaching collection, in the Kuhlman Gallery of the museum. In this exhibit, 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 understandings 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. The exhibit will open with a public reception from 2-4 p.m. Jan. 22, 2023.
by Jared Thorne