5th annual book art show in partnership with Herron Art Library of the IUPUI University Library. In Gallery No. 2 –Extended Layover – new work by Nathan Foxton. In City Gallery – recent work by Tyler Meuninck. In the Gallery Annex – Michael Helsley. The work hangs through August 31st.
We kicked off the fall art season with We Are City. In the Harrison Gallery, The Tide Crashes – new work by Jonathan McAfee. In the City Gallery – Wishard/Eskenazi Health presents art for the new Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital. In Gallery No. 2 – IDADA Member Exhibition. In Hank & Dolly’s – AIA 1 x 20 Design Competition selected entries. In the Underground – Robot group show. The work hangs through September 28th.
In the Harrison Gallery – Urban Gardens – new work by Maren Bell; in the City Gallery – Civic Food – new work by Carolyn Springer; in Gallery No. 2 – Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest; in the Gallery No. 2 foyer – photography by Faith Cohen; in Hank & Dolly’s Gallery – Christie Anderson; in the Gallery Annex – Holly Childress and Erica Cunningham.
Kyle Ragsdale’s solo show, Tableaux, in the Harrison Gallery; Casting Shadows – the Unity of Light – new work by Jed Dorsey in City Gallery; and Reworked and Recycled – paintings and works on paper by Dean Habegger.
Our annual holiday color-themed group show! In the Harrison Gallery and Annex – Nottingham Forest: the Hanging of the Green; Gallery No. 2 – Borshoff presents Homographs – work by Herron School of Art + Design painting students; Everything Has a Place…new work by Barbara Knuckles in City Gallery; and Ritual Residue – Nevada Buckley in Hank & Dolly’s Gallery.
It’s Animal House! In the Harrison Gallery – Moments of Thaw, cyanotype sculpture by Tasha Lewis with Glass by Mike Davis. In Gallery No. 2 – Creature Mythos – Brandon Schaaf, Stacey Holloway, Aaron Nicholson, Lesley Baker, Rachel Bleil, Andrew Perry Davis and Robert Horvath. In City Gallery – Koinonia, new work by Quincy Owens. The work hangs through January 25th.
“My paintings are representational but not with strict detail. I still love to see evidence of the paint on the canvas. I paint cityscapes, interiors, animals, and landscape. My landscapes are of distant vistas as one of my goals is pushing the distance and atmospheric perspective as far as I can from the viewer’s sight.
I am especially taken with the French Romantic painter Camille Corot. His work is so gentle and has a very high aesthetic quality. Other artists inspiring my work are Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent, and James Whistler. All of these artists can be seen in my work by either color, values, brush stroke, or sometimes subject matter.
My newest series of paintings reference a landscape, but also include an origin of food. The simplest of elements in the paintings are water, light, darkness, and soil; others include animals and vegetation. These new works are inspired by the thought of food’s original source and the romantic landscape surrounding them.”
Crystal completed her MFA at ISU, where she studied painting. Her current body of work is an exploration of cartography and the ephemeral nature of the world we live in. With antiquated atlas pages and the idea that the world that once was is no longer, Crystal creates freehand translations of our world into a language all anew. She currently lives in Broad Ripple with her husband, Jeremy, and their daughter Amelia.
Springer’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990 at sites ranging from Sushi Performance and Visual Art Gallery in San Diego, Yokohama — Japan’s Citizen’s Gallery and Tijuana’s Cultural Center. She has won numerous awards including a research grant to study in Italy. Her work is in many private collections. She paints with the encaustic medium. Encaustic painting is the process of working with melted beeswax that has been pigmented with colors. Encaustic or “burning in” in Greek refers to the process of fusing the wax a second time in order for the wax to remain stable. This process is considered one of the oldest methods of painting in history, dating back to early Egypt. To Springer, creating artwork that captures a unique beauty and also translates a deeper spiritual meaning to the observer is her ultimate goal when making paintings. Art making is a creative process that involves many levels of intellect and emotion for her. When she paints, she opens herself up to the flow of passing thoughts and feelings in order to capture something truer and greater than herself, a universal feeling or experience that many people can relate to.
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Elizabeth Smith’s work focuses on color with bold strong color areas that are then overlapped with contrasting color overlays, textures and patterns. The use of tiny brushes at the end to add miniscule details is meant to draw the viewer in to see other little surprises throughout the work. The variety of color, shape, texture and line make each piece reflect a sense of fantasy and geometry at the same time.
Smith holds a degree in Education from Ball State University with an Art Teaching Minor, as well as an MA in Drawing and Painting and an MFA in Painting. She studied primarily with well-known Chicago artists/writers Joshua Kind, Gordon Dorn and Jack Olson. She taught for 29 years, returning to painting in 2010 after moving to Indianapolis.
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