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October 2022
MIGUEL CASCO: Send Nudes
The solo exhibit in partnership with Arte Mexicano en Indiana features a collection of watercolor and gouache portraits as an invitation to be collectively vulnerable, to create and archive that speaks of intimacy and eroticism. From an open call to the public in 2018 to date, Casco has invited people to share their nudes with him. He then transferred them to painting, "to see through the eyes of the person who sends them and portray the intimacy they share," says…
Find out more »November 2022
Selina Trepp: Selected Shorts
Trepp's works research economy and improvisation. Finding a balance between the intuitive and conceptual is a goal, living a life of adventure is a way, embarrassment is often a result. She works across media, combining performance, installation, painting, and sculpture to create intricate setups that result in photos, drawings and animations. In addition to the studio-based work, Selina is active in the experimental music scene. In this context she sings and plays the videolah, her midi controlled video synthesizer, to create…
Find out more »Docey Lewis-Living Threads
Docey Lewis’s Living Threads takes the viewer on a journey of contradiction. Our technologically enhanced culture facilitates our ability to see and create both real and virtual connection while relentlessly making us more aware of the threats humanity faces. Seeking balance, we alternatively seesaw between retreating to our cocoons and interconnecting. Among the many threats we face is species loss. The exhibit highlights several extinct or threatened species in Posey County. The pre-human ecosystem in our area was abundantly populated…
Find out more »December 2022
Jennifer Blue Hands-Wild Muse
Opening the month of December at Guichelaar Gallery (next to Tube Factory artspace) are oil and mixed media on panels depicting characters that are created using a technique that visual artist Jennifer Blue Hands calls 'Draw, Trace, Color.' "Different and specific areas of the brain are activated while using the method to process deep trauma," says Blue Hands. "As a CPTSD (Complex post-traumatic stress disorder) survivor, practice in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Art Therapy, daily meditation, and Somatic therapy assist…
Find out more »Erin Harper Vernon-Temporal Presence
"When we ‘see’ a landscape, we situate ourselves in it.” John Berger, "Ways of Seeing" "Temporal Presence" is a liminal landscape of a documentary space, a transitional changing neighborhood over the course of a year. Part record and part performance, these interpolated digital-images create long manipulated panoramic photographs. They are a recording of the movement of my body and interpretation to a connected lens. These photographs jar, bend, break, and reconnect to the horizon. Walking down the street the open…
Find out more »Fall Creek Place Residents: join Citizens Park mural artists for a virtual walking tour
Selected artists Dr. Jarrod Dortch and Tiffany Black will design the large-scale installation coming soon to College Avenue in 2023. For several weeks, Dortch and Black will host community events to gather input and participation in the design process as they create community-specific artwork that reflects the history and dynamic energy of the Fall Creek Place neighborhood. Join the artists for a Virtual Walking Tour with former resident, Bashiri Asad. Visit https://www.tblack.co/fall-creek-place to learn more, participate, and stay up to date…
Find out more »Fall Creek Place Residents: Let’s Make Art!
Get involved in the design of the Citizens Park mural in Fall Creek Place by joining the selected artists for a night full of art-making activities! Selected artists Dr. Jarrod Dortch and Tiffany Black will design -- alongside residents -- the large-scale mural installation coming soon to College Avenue in 2023. For several weeks, Dortch and Black will host community events to gather input and participation in the design process as they create community-specific artwork that reflects the history and dynamic…
Find out more »January 2023
Betsy Stirratt: Unearthing
In Unearthing, Stirratt explores how natural and cultural objects are presented in collections and museum settings, and how we preserve, classify, and display them. "I have visited many natural history, herbaria and medical museums in Europe and the US with the aim of understanding their objectives, collecting impulses, and labelling practices. With similar intent, I visited several regional historical sites and collections, including the Workingmen’s Institute in New Harmony, the Indiana University Paleontology Collection,…
Find out more »September 2024
Jerry Lee Atwood:Chaos Refined
Jerry Lee Atwood’s custom Western wear stands at the apex of contemporary culture and fashion history. It serves as a bridge between traditions of the past established by great Western wear clothiers like Nuta Kotlyarenko, known professionally as Nudie Cohn or Manuel Arturo José Cuevas Martínez Sr., best known simply as Manuel, and our modern pop-culture pantheon represented by artists such as Orville Peck and Post Malone. Working under the moniker, Union Western Clothing which he founded with his partner…
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