2 photo exhibits at museum

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Two exhibitions will open Friday at the McDonough Museum of Art, 525 Wick Ave., on the campus of Youngstown State University, and run through March 3. They are “Alex Webb: La Calle, Photographs from Mexico” and “Selections from the

Collection of the Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University.”

There will be a public reception from 6-8 p.m. Friday.

“La Calle” brings together nearly 30 years of photography by Alex Webb created between 1978 and 2007 in Mexico City and the surrounding states, villages and cities. The exhibit is a celebration of the street, taken in a vibrant, colorful place.

“Selections” from the Ross collection includes works by Elliot Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Alen MacWeeney and Frank Stella.

Erwitt is an American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings.

Meyerowitz is a living legend in street photography is also a portrait and landscape photographer.

The Dublin-born MacWeeney photographed the native itinerants of Ireland known as “Travellers” for more than five years.

Stella’s works include eight lithographs.

The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.