Morrissey Gallery - Along Muddy Banks

The Morrissey Gallery is hosting Taryn McMahon's "Along Muddy Banks." The exhibit will run from Saturday, October 10 through Friday, December 9.

A Webex Q&A will be held at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 19.

The Webex information is:
Meeting Number: 2624 540 2778
Password: Banks

About the Exhibition

"A Series of Entanglements" is a suite of unique monotype prints of silhouetted objects collected from Northeast Ohio's waterways. Northeast Ohio's waterways have played a significant role in the history of ecological understanding in the United States. The Cuyahoga River is famous for having been so polluted that it caught fire in 1969, setting off a movement that eventually led to the founding of the EPA and the passage of the Clean Water Act. While the Cuyahoga River is in much better health ecologically today than in the 1960s or 70s, its banks are still significant points of interaction between humans and our environment.

This project began with walking along the river and collecting man-made objects such as consumer plastics and abandoned fishing supplies in addition to naturally occurring objects such as algae and stones. Each object's silhouette was translated into a stencil and printed in different highly transparent colors to create unique prints that weave together the man-made and natural objects. The layering reiterates the entanglement of the current state of ecology; a state in which the human and nonhuman can no longer be separated and have become conflated and intertwined in the face of unprecedented ecological change.