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Currently on Display in the Richards Gallery
This juried exhibition showcases the emerging talent in Scioto County. Imagination, ability, and vision are the key components in this year’s exhibition.
Coming Soon to the Richards Gallery
Columbus artist, Carol Snyder, works in porcelain for its unique qualities as a clay body. Its whiteness and translucency can give the sense of texture and patterning without the addition of glaze color. This more minimal approach to her work compels her to consider how light itself will convey the patterns and textures in each […]
Currently on Display in the Kricker Gallery
Alan Gough’s elegant and highly personal odes to southern Ohio will be on view in the museum’s Kricker Gallery from February 15 through May 10. This comprehensive overview of Gough’s 50+ year career includes some 75 paintings and drawings; it will be held in tandem with a smaller exhibition focusing upon Gough’s most recent work, […]
Now showing in the Richards Gallery
Master illusionist Ron Isaacs unites vintage clothing with the plant world to offer a breathtaking walk through his life size paired tromp l’oeil constructions.
Now on display in the Kricker Gallery
Six contemporary painters explore the artistically rich streets of the Renaissance, capturing echoes of subject matter, technique and composition while simultaneously proving what a difference five centuries can make. A gorgeous, dazzling and startling exhibition that jumps back and forth between centuries, realities, symbols, technologies, and world views. Artists include: Deborah Morrissey McGoff, Koo Schadler, […]
Former SOMACC artistic director and current Ohio University-Chillicothe professor, Darren Baker, infuses the Richards Gallery with his color-saturated photographs of objects closely observed in local junkyards. On view through October 19, these deceptively abstract images are, in fact, hyper-realistic close-ups of intensely hued scrap metal parts. Darren’s idiosyncratic eye for color is never more keenly […]
The Carl Ackerman Collection, with more than 10,000 historic local photographs, is an endless resource for thematic exhibitions in the Burton Room and other galleries. Cataloguing of the collection is ongoing, but more than 6300 images have already been digitized for direct public access. For researchers of local history, museum staff may be able to […]
