Rachel Hellmann: Shelter
OCTOBER 2 – 29, 2024
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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Shelter was an exhibition that spoke to the comfort, predictability and intimacy of activity in the home. In this series Hellmann creates “paintings” out of Dura-Lar, fabric, felt and yarn inspired by Assyrian reliefs. The work is not narrative in nature, rather, Hellmann uses the language of the hand as a form of nonverbal communication that is passed down generations similar to that of story-telling.
Robert Michael Smith: Process Evolution
SEPTEMBER 11 – OCTOBER 23, 2024
Common Grounds Exhibition Space
Eskenazi Hall
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Robert Michael Smith builds abstract worlds that become familiar through frequent immersion. His worlds are constructed to open exploration to the deepest regions of the human psyche for development within the landscape of the imagination.
James Wille Faust: From Concept to Color
SEPTEMBER 11 – OCTOBER 12, 2024
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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From Concept to Color presented a selection of sculpture and painting from the past three decades of James Wille Faust’s studio production.
Allison Baker: Fever Dream
AUGUST 19 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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Fever Dream popped with color, kitsch, and a come-hither wink, while teetering between salivating desire and queasy revulsion. In an expansive exhibition of new works in sculpture, collage, and video, Allison Baker probed how desire functions in a domestic sphere stratified by gender and class. In sculptures rendered in a vivid dollar-store color palette, flaccid silicone foliage and gardening gloves droop over domestic furnishings stripped of their functionality. In the artist’s cut-paper collages, these uncanny objects are displaced in fantastical psychosexual geographies. By transforming the mundane forms of shelves, vases, and rugs into hallucinatory visions of domestic discontent, Baker offered a wry and humorous commentary on the way in which our possessions absorb and manifest anxiety.
3 by 3
JUNE 26 – AUGUST 10, 2024
Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries + Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
3 by 3 featured the work of three contemporary women artists: Ayo Jackson, Gloria Martinez-Granados, and Johanna Winters. The show was organized by three Midwest curators: Mike Calway-Fagen, Linda Tien, and Elias Garza Garcia.
Graduate Thesis Exhibition
MAY 8 – 22, 2024
Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries + Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
The Graduate Thesis Exhibition featured the work of students completing their master's degrees in visual art and art therapy. Works showcased included installation art, intermedia work, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and therapeutic uses of the creative process.
Senior Capstone Exhibition
MAY 8 – 22, 2024
Marsh Gallery, Eskenazi Hall
Eskenazi Fine Arts Center
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The Senior Capstone Exhibition featured exceptional works produced by Herron undergraduate seniors across a variety of artistic disciplines.
Give and Take
February 7 – April 20, 2024
Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
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Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
Give and Take featured participatory artworks by local, national, and international artists. Each artwork evoked one of the five senses and invited visitors to partake in their activation. Artists featured in this exhibition included the late Félix González-Torres, Juicy Signs, Jamie Pawlus, April Knauber, Júlia Sodré, Gautam Rao, Constance Scopelitis, Jenny DelFuego, Cash For Your Warhol, Chromatic Collective, and Jordan Munson. Work by the Montreal-based design studio Daily tous les jours was on view in the Basile Gallery. Visit the Give and Take webpage.
This exhibition was made possible by generous donations and support from Art Bridges, Efroymson Family Fund, and the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation.
Daily tous les jours | I heard there was a secret chord
February 7 – April 20, 2024
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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Originally commissioned by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréaland the National Film Board of Canada with support from the Canada Council for the arts, I heard there was a secret chord is a participatory humming experience revealing an invisible vibration uniting people around the world currently listening to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Real-time online listener data is transformed into a virtual choir of humming voices. The number of voices corresponds to the current listener count, visible on a numerical display. By humming along into the microphones, participants generate low-frequency vibrations, closing the circuit of collective resonance with their bodies.
I heard there was a secret chord was part of the Give and Take exhibition. This exhibition was made possible by generous donations and support from Art Bridges, Efroymson Family Fund, and the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation. Visit the Give and Take webpage.
The Expanded Print
March 20 – April 20, 2024
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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The Expanded Print featured the works of current Herron printmaking, book arts, and VCD students that interact specifically within the greater spectrum of contemporary art practice – including prints, installation, sculpture, interactive objects and books.
Connecting Distances
February 7 – March 9, 2024
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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Connecting Distances is a celebration and demonstration of Virtual Global Learning Exchanges (VGLE) and how these impactful experiences help develop global mindset in our community. VGLE projects create equitable, high-impact learning scenarios that help students and faculty deepen their understanding of communication and appreciation of other cultures without the burden of monetary cost, time for travel, and added emissions to the atmosphere, making it a sustainable practice. Evidence of these projects is displayed in forms of collaborative artwork, design, and artifacts created by Herron students and their international partners. Connecting Distances showcases two VGLE projects: 4000 Miles of Transcontinental Storytelling and Cultural Threads: Weaving Visual Dialogues Across Continents. In 4000 Miles of Transcontinental Storytelling, Sydney Craig and first-year Herron students collaborated with Judith Glaser and students from the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg, Germany. In the project Cultural Threads: Weaving Visual Dialogues Across Continents, Amrita Datta and Herron students partnered with Hyung-Kyung Lee and students from Yonsei University.
National Sculpture Society Exhibition
November 8, 2023 – January 20, 2024
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
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This exhibition showcases of the work of fifteen regional sculptors at the National Sculpture Society Exhibition. Organized and curated by the National Sculpture Society’s Indiana’s ambassador Gregory Glasson and IU Indianapolis’ own Jacob Dobson, the show highlights a variety of techniques and technologies in contemporary figurative sculpture.
Andrea Myers: Materialize
September 20, 2023 - January 13, 2024
Berkshire, Reese and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
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Berkshire, Reese and Paul Galleries
Andrea Myers's work explores the space between two and three dimensionality, hybridizing painting, sculpture and fiber arts. Materialize will feature several large-scale works, including a new major installation formed of repurposed t-shirts that will transform the gallery into a pixilated quilt of bold colors.
