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SUMMARY:Amy Kligman: Shrines of the Luminous Halo
DESCRIPTION:Main Gallery  \nImagine you are stepping into a bubble\, a space filled with all the thoughts that drift through your mind in a single day. What do you surround yourself with? What defines you? And how do you interact with or move around these objects that symbolize yourself? \nAmy Kligman’s series of 23 paintings glimpses an inner world\, specifically focusing on the objects we choose to surround us. Arranged in a deliberate\, symmetrical way\, these objects represent who we are.  \n“I love objects and environments that carry the history of the people that have shared space and time with them. I think about lineage — the patina of the world handed from generation to generation\, and what it means to try to make something of the world as we receive it from others\,” says Kligman\, who lives and works in Kansas City\, Missouri. “Generations of women\, generations of artists\, generations of family. In my paintings I pull together elements from these histories to suggest a kind of ‘bubble world’ where those disparate pieces come together in a place of hope\, reverence\, acknowledgment\, or sometimes a sort of aspiration for a future where the efforts of the past inform progress.” \nThroughout the history of art\, depictions of the table and its contents have been used as a storytelling device to convey skillfully coded meaning and sociocultural significance to the viewer. Taking the genre of still lifes as its entry point\, this exhibition expands upon art historical precedents to think about the table (or toolcart) not only as a site and signifier of power\, position\, and social status but also as a shrine. \nKligman’s series also gives form to Virginia Woolf’s idea of a “luminous halo” — a semi-transparent layer that envelops us from the moment we become conscious until the end. Kligman’s works act like a book focusing on how we remember and what we think we know. \n“In the assembling of objects I’m often pulling together references and symbols as an invitation to a specific state of being or meditation or reflection. By creating these spaces and inviting others into them\, I’m inviting them into these states of reflection as well\, though folks are not meant to understand all the symbols and the visual language in a didactic way. I believe intention has its own halo\, echoing out into the universe\, subtly encouraging movement.” \n\nAbout the artist \nAmy Kligman is a painter and installation artist whose work is mostly about people\, even when it takes the form of rooms full of layered\, disposable party goods. Kligman holds her BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design. At the end of 2024\, after nine years in the role\, she stepped down as executive director at Charlotte Street Foundation to create her own opportunities by identifying gaps in the Kansas City arts ecosystem. She launched Special Effects gallery to make local artists more nationally visible. In March of 2025 she opened Salon for Possible Futures\, an artwork that doubles as a community gathering space on view at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Additionally her work was featured in New American Paintings and she received the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Award\, ArtsKC Inspiration Grant\, Art in the Loop Public Art Commission\, residency at the Luminary in St. Louis\, Missouri Bank Artboards Commission\, and the Byron C. Cohen Artist Award. 
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/amy-kligman-shrines-of-the-luminous-halo/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ilana Harris-Babou: Selected Works
DESCRIPTION:Nov. 7\, 2025 – Jan. 25\, 2026 | Video Gallery \n​​Red Sourcebook\, 2018\, 4:12 minutes\, color\, stereo\, HD video \nCooking with the Erotic\, 2016\, 11:37 minutes\, color\, stereo\, 2-channel\, HD video \nFinishing a Raw Basement\, 2017\, 6:41 minutes \, color\, stereo\, HD video \nReparation Hardware\, 2018\, 4:05 minutes\, color\, stereo\, HD video \nIlana Harris-Babou is a multimedia artist whose video works are an important component of a practice that includes sculpture and object making\, performance\, and installation. In her projects\, Harris-Babou mines the aesthetics of YouTube tutorials\, home improvement and cooking shows\, and corporate ad campaigns to call attention to how personal and social identities are constructed—and co-opted—by dominant ideologies. \nHarris-Babou unsettles the anodyne tone of these vehicles with wit and creative whimsy\, utilizing and re-contextualizing mainstream media forms to make explicit the forces that are elided by slick production strategies: social stratification; legacies of structured oppression; and the homogenizing push of consumerism. Fit within a history of artists using satire and mimicry to critique media and communication platforms\, Harris-Babou’s videos\, many of which feature her own mother\, also draw from her personal experience and lexicon of references to infuse her humor with deeply resonant meaning. \nHarris-Babou has presented solo exhibitions of her work at Candice Madey Gallery\, New York\, NY (2023); Storefront for Art and Architecture\, New York\, NY (2023); The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery\, Wesleyan University (2023); Artspace New Haven (2022); Kunsthaus Hamburg\, Hamburg\, Germany (2021); Goucher College\, Baltimore\, MD (2021); Jacob Lawrence Gallery\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA (2020); and The Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, NY (2017). In spring 2023\, the artist installed Liquid Gold in Times Square for the Midnight Moment series. Harris-Babou has participated in major exhibitions including the Istanbul Design Biennial\, Turkey (2020); and the Whitney Biennial\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, NY (2019)\, and group exhibitions at The Wellcome Collection\, London\, UK (2023); California College of the Arts Wattis Institute\, San Francisco\, CA (2021); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum\, Ridgefield\, CT (2021); and Queens Museum\, Queens\, NY (2020). She lives and works in Brooklyn and Middletown\, CT. \nMade possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts \nScreen still from “Decision Fatigue.”
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/ilana-harris-babou-selected-works/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:January 2026 First Friday at Tube Factory on the the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) Campus
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for First Friday festivities on Jan. 2 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) campus! \nContinuing exhibits in the Tube Factory building include: \n\nAmy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery\nSelected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery\n\nOf note\, January is the last month to see Shrines of the Luminous Halo and Harris-Babou’s selected works! \nAnd\, come check out our CAMi expansion! \nAs always\, enjoy coffee\, Sun King beer\, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/january-2026-first-friday-at-the-contemporary-art-museum-of-indianapolis-cami/
LOCATION:Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: Kristine Esser Slentz
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nFeatured Poet: Kristine Esser Slentz \nOpen mic prompt: Write a poem on how technology affects a close relationship.  \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nAbout the Featured Poet: \nKristine Esser Slentz is a queer writer of Maltese descent\, raised in the Chicagoland area. A cult escapee and GED holder\, she is the author of EXHIBIT: an amended woman\, depose (FlowerSong Press\, 2021\, 2024) and the forthcoming collection face-to-faces (ThirtyWest Publishing House\, 2026). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Saturday Evening Post\, TriQuarterly\, Five Points\, TEDx\, and elsewhere. Kristine is the co-founder\, organizer\, and host of Adverse Abstraction\, a monthly experimental artist series in New York City’s East Village. She also produces and performs in Verse & Vision\, a stage production currently in a micro-residency at NYC’s Dada and headed for an upcoming run at the IndyFringe Festival. Follow her art on Substack at Carnations & Car Crashes. \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday (this month is an exception\, as it’s on the second Wednesday)\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-kristine-esser-slentz/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sketch Club with India Hines
DESCRIPTION:If you love sketching and are looking for community\, hang out and draw with Big Car long-term artist-in-residence\, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sketch-club-with-india-hines-10/
LOCATION:Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) Storefronts & Studios Open House
DESCRIPTION:Are you an artist\, designer\, or creative entrepreneur looking for a community where you can make\, share\, and grow your work? The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) is now accepting applications for studio and storefront spaces in our new building opening May 2026 on Indianapolis’s near south side. \nTo help prospective applicants learn more\, we’re hosting an open house where you can tour the spaces\, ask questions\, and explore what it means to be part of the CAMi campus. \nOpen House Details: \nSaturday\, Jan. 24\n1–3 p.m.\nStarting location: Tube building (1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN 46203) \nStaff will be available to provide direction\, share information about available spaces\, and answer questions about the application and selection process.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/contemporary-art-museum-of-indianapolis-cami-storefronts-studios-open-house/
LOCATION:Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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