Stefan Petranek
The Future is Broken
November 18 – December 18
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Turning to new digital technologies, Associate Professor Stefan Petranek created a series of augmented multimedia landscapes addressing his anxiety for the future of our planet.
Endia Beal
The Future is Broken
September 18 – December 18
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Endia Beal's photographic series Am I What You're Looking For? explores the challenges young women of color face as they enter the corporate workforce.
Sanford Wurmfeld
Encountering Color: Sanford Wurmfeld E-Cyclorama II (and Other Paintings)
September 18 – December 18
Berkshire, Reese & Paul Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Encountering Color featured New York-based artist Sanford Wurmfeld's immersive, 360-degree painting investigating color and visual perception, along with a selection of his recent paintings.
Valerie Eickmeier
Mapping Expedition
September 18 – November 9
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Mapping Expedition featured a selection of new paintings and woodcuts created by Professor Valerie Eickmeier during her recent sabbatical year.
Shirin Neshat
July 15 – August 28
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
An installation of Rapture, a two-channel black-and-white video work exploring the gender politics of Islam.
Minnie Adkins
June 5 – August 28
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
A selection of carved and painted wood sculpture by Kentucky folk artist Minnie Adkins.
The Alchemy of Paper
June 5 – August 28
Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
Through the papermaking process, the artists in this exhibition have harnessed paper's characteristic will to serve their diverse practices while redefining this ancient and elemental material.
After & Because Of
June 5 – July 5
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, After & Because Of celebrates the work of contemporary LGBTQ+ artists and their diverse representations of life today. Featured artists were Devan Shimoyama, Rana Young, Paolo Arao, Chris E. Vargas, Danny Ferrell, Montgomery Smith, and Dani and Sheilah Restack.
Graduate Thesis Exhibition
May 2 – May 18
Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
An exhibition featuring the work of Herron students completing their master's degrees in art therapy, visual art, and visual communication design.
Lori Waxman
60 wrd/min art critic
April 30 – May 2
Basile Center for Art, Design, and Public Life
Eskenazi Hall
During the 60 wrd/min art critic performance, Lori Waxman provided written reviews free of charge to artists on a first-come, first-served basis as a way of demystifying the art review process.
Chris Sickels AKA Red Nose Studio
March 6 – May 18
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
An exhibition featuring the characters and imagery of Greenfield-based illustrator and stop-motion animator Chris Sickels (aka Red Nose Studio). This exhibition explored Sickels’ process of creating, photographing and animating intricate dioramas and offered an in-depth look at the artist's creative approaches to illustration.
Gillian Wearing
Bully
March 6 – May 18
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
A solo presentation of Gillian Wearing's video installation Bully (2010). One of the key figures of the Young British Artists movement and a recipient of the prestigious Turner Prize, Wearing is known for her documentary-style exploration of everyday life and her interrogation of the fault lines between our private lives and public selves.
Christine Sciulli
SUBSUME
March 6 – April 20
Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
A large-scale, site-specific installation by artist Christine Sciulli. Sciulli, known for her use of projected light to activate and shape space, filled Herron's 3000-square-foot Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries to create an expansive, immersive and utterly memorable experience.
Kota Ezawa
Tonya
January 9 – February 23
Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
Kota Ezawa is known for animating film footage of iconic moments from history and popular culture using a process involving freehand and vector-based digital techniques. Tonya is a new three-channel video by Ezawa based on the choreography and movements of contemporary dancer James Kirby Rogers. Bringing together dance and visual arts disciplines, the collaboration between Ezawa and Rogers fuses human movements with the imaginative powers enabled by digital animation.
Christian Marclay
Telephones
January 9 – February 21
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
A selection of photographs and video work by internationally renowned artist Christian Marclay that examine the telephone – a recurring motif in Marclay's practice. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Marclay's 1995 iconic work Telephones, a mesmerizing, seven-minute video composed of meticulously collaged clips taken from classic Hollywood films.
Peter Shear
Time Stamp
January 9 – February 21
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Best known for small-scale, abstract compositions, Time Stamp introduced a new series of larger format paintings by Peter Shear, a self-taught artist based in Bloomington, Indiana. Shear's larger canvases offer an exuberant exploration of the expressive and poetic possibilities of color and gesture, and continue the artist's sustained investigation into the varied and sometimes contradictory ways to make a painting.