Betty and Howard Taylor Main Gallery
Persistence of Vision | Kasumi
This retrospective of artworks from the late 1990s to present highlights the ongoing dedication to experimentation of internationally renowned artist Kasumi. While best known for her digital videos and films, Kasumi’s staggering range of methods and media— including collage, printmaking, painting, installation, and more — are also on display for this show. Repeated subjects, gestures, and expressions connect the works across a wide variety of media.
@kasumifilms
Welcome Gallery & Hallways
Overdose Awareness Exhibition
In honor of Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, artists in Summit and contiguous counties created artworks exploring their personal experience with overdose and addiction, honoring a loved one who has died, and serving as an ally for those who have struggled. The day represents the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died, and acknowledge the grief of those left behind.
Intersections Gallery
Women’s Art League Member Exhibition
Women’s Art League of Akron is an artist group that unites women artists interested in the advancement of the arts and service to the community. For over 90 years, the prize-winning league has remained a force to be reckoned with on the local art scene through its creative use of every medium and outside-the-box thinking.
Forum Gallery
Diagrams for Inner Space | Steven Mastroianni
Evocative of watery depths, imaginary heavens, and mysterious maps, the largescale photograms and drawings on view in this exhibition create an immersive world examining the intersection of symbols, surrealism, and abstraction. Like dreams, these images seem familiar but weird; letters that don’t exist, mechanical forms floating in space, math problems that don’t add up, and patterns that follow their own logic.
Horizon Gallery
Stitched Editions: Walking Through the Sacred Garden | Melih Meric
Through a unique method of presenting editioned prints, this exhibition challenges traditions of the print world as it crosses the borders of “paper.” Highlighting generative patternmaking and referencing Middle Eastern tiles and textiles, the prints pose questions of excessiveness and repetition to reclaim erasure and identity in Middle Eastern communities. The exhibition draws parallels between hierarchies in art and contemporary systems of oppression through traditional methods of crafts.