Zuckerman Museum of Art Summer Exhibits (thursdays)

From the venue:

Juneteenth: Works from the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art Permanent Collection

June 3 - 28, 2025

Co-Curated by Ramanda Miller and Jacob Lackner, MA Art & Design

The ZMA is pleased to present this exhibition in collaboration with the KSU Cultural Awareness and Resource Center and the KSU Center for Student Engagement & Belonging. As part of Juneteenth Jubilee, this exhibition celebrates African American artists whose works are in the permanent collection of the ZMA. Artists featured include Willie Birch, Paul Stephen Bejamin, Delita Martin, Renée Stout, William Villalongo, and Carrie Mae Weems among many others. Recent acquisition by artist Yashua Klos will also be on view.

Ruth V. Zuckerman Collection: Inside Out

Long-term display located in the Ruth Zuckerman Pavilion. Curated by Teresa Bramlette Reeves

For the preservation of artwork, museums must often hold their permanent collections in storage rather than in public view. "Visible storage," maintains the necessary safe-keeping of the objects while allowing museum visitors to see and study work that would otherwise be unavailable. This installation employs visible storage to showcase a substantial number of Ruth Zuckerman's sculptures and drawings from the KSU Permanent Collection, while making aspects of a collection's care transparent for the public.

Project Wall North and East: Beth LaCour

January 28 - July 26, 2025
 
Image credit: Beth LaCour, Orb, Elephant Hide Paper, 7" x 9.5" x 9.5", 2021.

In association with They Teach Love, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Project Wall West: Matthew Kirk

August 27, 2024 - July 26, 2025

Image credit: Matthew Kirk, The Fuzzy Edges of a Dream, mixed media on plywood, 14' x 7', 2024.
 

Matthew Kirk (b. 1978, Ganado, AZ) is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. A self-taught artist, Kirk has worked for over twelve years in New York City as a professional art handler— a trade that has often influenced his artistic practice in terms of utilizing readily available materials to make his art. His gestural paintings and abstract assemblages are steeped in symbolism and iconography that relate to the visual language of the Navajo, while his use of the grid as compositional armature takes structural inspiration from traditional Navajo weavings and rugs, as well as topographical maps and urban landscapes. Kirk states, “Just as family, work, current events, and city life are reflected in the work, my Indian heritage plays an important, but nuanced role.” Kirk’s work is currently featured in the META tech giant’s new complex in NYC alongside other site-specific installations by artists Baseera Khan and Liz Collins, among others. Kirk has exhibited at Adams and Ollman, Portland; Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago; Louis B. James, New York; and Exit Art, New York. In 2019, Kirk was awarded the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is represented by Fierman Gallery in New York City.