Robert Horvath
Petit Mort
November 29 – December 20
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
A sabbatical exhibition by Associate Professor Robert Horvath that featured a selection of oil paintings and digital compositions.
Undergraduate Student Exhibition
November 29 – December 13
Berkshire, Reese, Paul, and Marsh Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
An annual exhibition juried by Chris Reitz, gallery director at Louisville’s Hite Art Institute, that featured exceptional works produced by Herron students across a variety of artistic disciplines.
Cynthia Daignault
Light Atlas
September 13 – November 11
Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
In 2014, Cynthia Daignault embarked on a yearlong exploration of America. Traveling around the U.S. perimeter, she stopped every 25 miles to paint the view before her. Consisting of 360 paintings — one for each degree of the circle she traveled — Light Atlas forms a grand portrait of America, an exploration of light and color, typography and typology, industry and economy, myth and reality.
Cat Head Press
September 13 – November 11
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
An exhibition featuring artwork produced by the founding members and residents of Indianapolis-based Cat Head Press, a not-for-profit community center and fine art printmaking studio.
Derrick Velasquez
A Shade Away
September 13 – November 11
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
A Shade Away will feature new work by Denver-based artist Derrick Velasquez, who uses prefabricated architectural moldings to explore the broader politics of design and urban development.
Samuel Levi Jones
Remedial Suffering
July 26 – September 2
Basile Gallery
This exhibition featured works by Herron alumnus Samuel Levi Jones (B.F.A. Photography '09).
Ragnar Kjartansson and The National
A Lot of Sorrow
June 14 – September 2
Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries
A Lot of Sorrow is a six-hour, single-channel video by Ragnar Kjartansson of a performance at MoMA PS1 by the indie-rock band The National. For this video, Kjartansson asked The National to play their three-minute, twenty-five second hit song “Sorrow” live on stage, repeatedly and continuously, for over six hours.
Jaqueline Cedar
Mirror Mirror
June 14 – September 2
Marsh Gallery
This exhibition featured new paintings and a site-specific installation by Jaqueline Cedar.
Fold, Staple, Riot: The Art and Subculture of Zine Making
June 14 – July 15
Basile Gallery
In conjunction with Indianapolis-based Gluestick 2017, this exhibition will highlight local and national DIY publishing and art-making and feature master copies and photocopied zines along with original art, concept sketches, preparatory drawings, and other aspects of the zine making process.
Look/See
May 4 – May 20
All galleries
Herron's signature event, Look/See fills all 6,000 square feet of gallery space across Herron's two buildings, Eskenazi Hall and the Eskenazi Fine Arts Center.
Inspiring Prometheus
April 8 – April 22
Basile Gallery
Inspiring Prometheus highlighted the creative use of new technologies by Herron students and the Think It Make It Lab’s role in engaging them to work on concept design and prototyping, using a variety of digital fabrication methods.
Indiana High School Junior Art Invitational
April 8 – April 22
Marsh Gallery
A juried exhibition showcasing the artistic talents of high school juniors from around Indiana.
Phyllis Bramson
Love and Affection in a Hostile World
March 8 – April 15
Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries
A survey of Chicago-based artist Phyllis Bramson’s provocative painting and mixed media work, which examine Eastern iconography as constructed in the Western imagination.
C. Thomas Lewis
The Virgin Forest Project
March 1 – March 25
Marsh Gallery
C. Thomas Lewis invites audiences to experience the sights and sounds of three Indiana forests through a series of immersive, high-definition films. Lewis is a lecturer in IUPUI’s Media Arts and Sciences program.
Freya Powell
Omniscience and Oblivion
February 8 – March 25
Basile Gallery
For this sound installation, New York-based artist Freya Powell created an audio archive where participants were invited to anonymously share one memory they would like to keep forever and one they would like to let go.
Hans Op de Beeck
Staging Silence (2)
January 11 – February 25
Marsh Gallery
In Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck’s film, the real and the imaginary fuse as anonymous hands assemble miniature dioramas of timeless, dreamlike settings.
Craig McDaniel + Jean Robertson
Close Reading
January 11 – January 31
Basile Gallery
In Close Reading, Herron faculty members Craig McDaniel and Jean Robertson explore the relationship of visual and verbal modes of communicating and expressing meaning.
Tom Sachs
Radiant City: Paintings 2000–2017
January 11 – February 18
Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries
A major survey exhibition of Tom Sachs’ paintings showcasing the artist’s ongoing interest in combining mass-produced, pop cultural icons with a hand-made aesthetic.