Cleveland Institute of Art student exhibition to share healing journey at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

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April 15, 2025

CLEVELAND—Audrey Magdics, a Painting and Drawing junior at the Cleveland Institute of Art, is excited to announce her solo exhibition, Healing Horizons, in University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center’s Trudy Wiesenberger Gallery (Annex).

Healing Horizons will share Magdics' personal healing journey following her father's sudden illness and long-term hospital stay. Since enduring that trauma, Magdics has been inspired to tell her story through her large-scale, Lee Krasner-inspired abstract paintings.

"Since my dad suddenly got sick, I immediately felt inspired to tell my story through painting. The subject matter is personal to me, and I want to share and celebrate my own experiences with the public since we all cope with hard things in life," she says. "By sharing my personal experience in an abstract way, I'm inviting viewers to come to the work in whatever way suits them best.

Healing Horizons will be exhibited at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center at 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. There will be an opening reception from 4 to 6pm Thursday, May 1, and the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, July 6.

Magdics was excited to partner with University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center for Healing Horizons.

"Before my dad’s illness, I had no idea what going through a traumatic experience actually felt like. The hospital staff began to feel like family, a very comforting presence during this tough time," Magdics says. "I was eager to work with University Hospitals since my family had spent a lot of time within that hospital campus with my dad. I wanted to give back to the hospital somehow since they have helped my dad and family a ton."

To learn more about Magdics work, visit her website or follow @audreymagdicsart on Instagram.

Healing Horizons was created through CIA's Creativity Works program, which is made possible by the generous support of the Fenn Educational Fund and the G.R. Lincoln Family Foundation. Creativity Works is a self-initiated internship program with the goal of supporting a student's professional development. Participating students create proposals that align with their long-term professional goals.

Contact

Cleveland Institute of Art
Michael C. Butz, Director of College Communications + External Relations
mcbutz@cia.edu / 216.421.7404

Cleveland Institute of Art

The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private, nonprofit college of art and design that has been the training ground for countless students who have gone on to make important contributions to the fields of creativity and innovation since it opened in 1882 as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women. Its students have designed internationally recognized products, their artwork has been exhibited in major museums and private collections around the world, and their entertainment media has been enjoyed by audiences and game players for generations. It enrolls about 600 students nationally and internationally and has a faculty of about 100 full-time and adjunct members, all of whom are practicing artists, designers and scholars.