Opening reception during Walk All Over Waterloo - July 3, 5-8pm

Gallery Hours: by appointment only through August 9th, 2026

Deep Dive Art Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new works on paper by Taryn McMahon and Aoife Mooney. Voices of Spring is the result of a collaborative project between the two artists, combining Mahon’s visual vocabulary and Mooney’s woven works. The exhibition will run through Sunday, August 9th at the Deep End's Viewing Room in the Waterloo Arts District.

Throughout 2025, the artists have been collaborating on a series of prints weaving together our shared interests in ecology, ecofeminism, and reciprocity. Walking along the Cuyahoga River with their young children, the artists collected found objects - plants, erosion netting, and more. They listened to to their children’s observations of the environment, “We imagined what the plants might be communicating. Plants, of course, do communicate - they droop, or perk up, they bend, or grow straight.” The plants communicate with each other via chemical and electrical signals and ultrasonic sounds. Together they shaped the plants into something resembling text, yet not easily decipherable.

Dissolving in and out of text and image, the plants are layered with scans of Mooney’s weavings as a metaphor for the interwovenness of the human and nonhuman, of beings and environments. Mooney’s weavings are interlaced with bubble wrap, monofilament, and flagging tape, which is used to mark landscapes. Together, the weavings and prints are a physical embodiment of process, time, collaboration, and interconnectedness.

Taryn McMahon is a printmaker who explores the entanglements between the human and nonhuman through the waterways of Northeast Ohio. She grew up in New Jersey and received her BFA from the Pennsylvania State University. She then attended the University of Iowa, where she received an MA and MFA in Printmaking. McMahon has received numerous awards for her work including an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Arts Challenge, a Puffin Foundation grant, and Denbo Fellowship. Her work has been shown at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, the International Print Center, New York, NY, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, and the McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH, among many other venues. She lives and works in Northeast Ohio and serves as a Professor of Studio Art at Kent State University.

Aoife Mooney is an Irish textile artist, typo/graphic designer, and an Associate Professor in the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University in Ohio, USA. She holds an MFA in Studio Art (Textiles) from the School of Art at Kent State University, as well as a Masters in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, and a Bachelors in Visual Communication from Dublin Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty at Kent State in 2014, she worked as a typeface designer at the Hoefler & Frere-Jones (now part of Monotype) type foundry in New York. Alongside her teaching, she maintains practices as textile artist, typeface designer and typographer. She is a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers and one of the regional coordinators of the ISTD North America Annual Student Assessment Scheme. She regularly presents on her research at conferences nationally and internationally.

Mooney and McMahon have been collaborating since 2025 and have created 5 editions together. Their work together weaves their interests in ecology, textiles, text, translation, and relationships.

Taryn M. McMahon & Aoife Mooney - Voices of Spring

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