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The Multicultural Arts Center proudly presents an exhibit of Donald Langosy’s new series, The Journey of Eduardo Gunkla, featuring a linked group of oil paintings and Photoshop compositions on canvas. The exhibit opens on December 1, 2025, and will be on display until January 9, 2026. The opening reception will be held on December 4.
Langosy describes The Journey of Eduardo Gunkla as “an autobiography of my thoughts.” The series depicts his journey to make sense of the loss of two friends, the poet Antonio Giarraputo and the artist Stephen Curtis, through his paintings. Langosy notes, “Since the 1990s, when two beloved friends died, I have pondered how to realize them again in my paintings. Thus was born ‘the journey of Eduardo Gunkla.’ Eduardo represents myself on a disjointed journey generated by the meandering reality of thought. I have painted many moments in this journey, each time pausing afterward, unsure of ‘what’ or ‘where’ could come next. Born in my subconscious and transported onto canvas, this journey has lasted over thirty years.”
The exhibit is unique for Langosy in that six of the twelve images in the series are oil paintings on canvas, whereas the other six are high-resolution prints of collaged compositions created in Photoshop. The twelve images are presented as a continuous journey as viewers proceed through the gallery. Also on exhibit are additional paintings by Langosy of Eduardo Gunkla and his travels through Langosy’s imagination.
This is the third exhibit of Donald Langosy’s paintings to appear in the Art Center’s gallery, following a retrospective, Excerpts From My Studio, in 2021 and a celebration of the connections between painters and poets, Art/Poetica, in 2023.
Langosy’s story is one of the power of the creative spirit and the determination to continue on a chosen path despite the limitations of a disability. In the 1970s and 80s, he was a prominent artist whose work was exhibited in Boston and New York and acquired by museums and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. In the early 90s, he began to show signs of a rare form of multiple sclerosis that stole his mobility and many of his everyday capabilities. Although no longer able to visit museums and galleries or travel to meet with art dealers and curators, Langosy never gave up on his art. Now a wheelchair user with limited mobility in all but his left hand, he still spends each day in his home studio. The Journey of Eduardo Gunkla not only honors the universal effort to make sense of seemingly inexplicable moments in our lives but also pays homage to everyone who rises up in the face of adversity.
