Fall Exhibitions

YSU’s McDonough Museum of Art presents its annual Fall Exhibitions, titled “Around Here, It’s Always Eternity,” featuring works by Bonny Leibowitz, Alice Pixley Young, Deborah Wasserman, and Etty Yaniv.

Leibowitz’s floor-based sculptures and installations are a combination of salvaged welded metals, plastics, mangled industrial and architectural parts, tree branches, roots, and photography. Her works examine renditions of environmental stories and histories, all of which have been constructed and distorted by humans.

Young’s work examines her own layered environment: culturally the Rust Belt, geologically an ancient fossil bed on the Myaamia homelands, and from now to forever, a nuclear-contaminated site. These ideas inform her multimedia installations, which combine vocabularies from both built and natural environments.

Wasserman paints landscapes of dualities; her paintings evoke environmental destruction contrasted with the beauty and fertility of nature. She draws on her experience of migration between continents, known for the plundering of natural resources and military conflicts. She attaches torn clothing and rags to her canvases as “skin” and body, drawing parallels between the painting process and nature’s cycles of birth, death, and renewal.

Yaniv’s work combines paint, fabric, photography, and found objects to create textured, multi-dimensional environments that appear to be in perpetual flux. From a distance, they resemble topographical terrains, as if seen from a bird’s eye view or a satellite. Up close, the works reveal intricate vignettes evoking archeological layers, where deep time, life’s brief moments, history, and natural forces entwine.

Entry to this event is free and open to the public. The McDonough Museum of Art is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Parking is available at the Wick Avenue Deck (M30) for a $5 fee payable in cash only.

For more information, contact Katie Merrill, Cliffe College Coordinator of Community Engagement and Events, at 330.941.2307 or kamerrill@ysu.edu.