'Forecast,' Solo Art Exhibition by Professor Shona Macdonald, On Display at Herter Hall Sept. 10-Oct. 10
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Herter Art Gallery presents, Forecast, a solo exhibition by Shona Macdonald, artist and professor in the Department of Art, on view during gallery hours, Monday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 1-4 p.m.
Forecast is a mixed-media exploration of the phenomena and effects of both weather and climate. The exhibition will consist of both stretched and unstretched paintings with textile elements, long, ‘strip’ like works suggestive of reading weather reports, and drawings depicting images based on human manmade shelters.
Discussing her work, Macdonald writes, “At the beginning of my sabbatical, I explored the relationship between weather and psychology by depicting images of weather itself (raindrops and wind, for example). Towards the end of my research leave, I have pivoted to using more pointed images of the effects of climate change such as storms and flooding.”
Shona Macdonald has held selected solo exhibitions at various museums, including the McDonough Museum of Art (2023), Zillman Art Museum (2020-21), Brattleboro Art Center and Museum (2018), and more. Her two-person exhibitions have been shown at the Ballina Art Center in County Mayo, Ireland (2022); Linden Sculpture Garden (2012); and Dayton Art Center (2018), while her work has been featured in group shows across the United States, UK, Australia, and Canada.
Macdonald has been a Visiting Artist at more than 50 institutions, including The University of Wyoming, Georgia State University, the University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary in Canada. She is a 2009 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. Her artist-in-residencies in the U.S. have included UCross, Ragdale, Kimmel Harding Nelson, VCCA, Roswell, and internationally, at Can Serrat, Spain, the Cromarty Arts Trust, Scotland, and both Ballinglen and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland.
Visit the artist website to learn more about Shona Macdonald.