Open year round, the Galleries at Herron showcase the artwork of emerging and established contemporary artists and designers, as well as the work of Herron’s acclaimed faculty, distinguished alumni and students. All exhibitions and artist talks are free and open to the public.
Exhibitions
Current exhibitions
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: The Minotaur Trilogy
September 19 – December 12
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
A mix of Greek cartoon, slapstick comedy, and punning wordplay, Reid Kelley's video trilogy produced in collaboration with Patrick Kelley explores the Greek myth of the minotaur and, through it, the present-day roles of women, sexuality, language, and art historical tropes.
Stuff(ed)
September 19 – December 12
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Stuff(ed) features a selection of contemporary artists – Jessica Dance, David Gabbard, and Natalie Baxter – using soft sculpture to explore issues around consumer culture, social conventions, and artistic tradition. This exhibition will examine the playful, subversive power of sculpted fabric to transform and reimagine mass-market commodities and bric-a-brac from everyday life.
Undergraduate Student Exhibition
November 28 – December 12
Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
The Undergraduate Student Exhibition is an annual tradition featuring exceptional works produced by Herron students across a variety of artistic disciplines.
Upcoming exhibitions
Kota Ezawa: Much Ado About Nothing
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. Much Ado About Nothing 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.
Peter Shear: Time Stamp
January 9 – February 21
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Best known for small-scale, abstract compositions, Time Stamp introduces 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.
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.