Graduate Thesis Exhibition
May 5 – 22, 2021
Berkshire, Reese and Paul Galleries
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Berkshire, Reese and Paul Galleries virtual tour
This exhibition featured the work of Herron students completing their master's degrees in art therapy, visual art, and visual communication design and showcased examples of installation art, intermedia work, painting, sculpture, and printmaking; user-centric design innovations; and therapeutic uses of the creative process.
Senior Capstone Exhibition
May 5 – 22, 2021
Eskenazi Fine Arts Center
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Eskenazi Fine Arts Center virtual tour
The Senior Capstone Exhibition features exceptional works produced by Herron undergraduate senior students across a variety of artistic disciplines.
Creativity vs. COVID
March 24 – May 9, 2021
A virtual exhibition
Organized by Associate Professor Laura Holzman, Public Scholar of Curatorial Practices and Visual Art, IUPUI, this innovative, virtual exhibition shares the compelling creative work of the Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 campaign – from poster designs to viral parody music videos. In doing so, it introduces audiences to key issues that limit access to medicine and provides robust methods that anyone can use to advocate for change from anywhere, especially at this time of social distancing.
SHIFT: What Can Museums Change?
March 24 – April 24, 2021
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Developed by students in the Museum Studies program at the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, this exhibition explores large and small ways that museums are working to right historical wrongs.
Paul Briggs
Paul S. Briggs–Cell Personae: The Impact of Incarceration on Black Lives
March 24 – April 24, 2021
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Through his arresting sculptural ceramics, Paul Briggs confronts the far-reaching impact of incarceration on Black lives. Briggs brings a background in social justice advocacy as a former Baptist minister to inform his work, realizing the inherent physicality of clay and its expressive potential. In view of the fact that disproportionately Black Americans populate our prisons, his sculptures are an attempt to uncover the wider impact of incarceration that deeply damages not only those imprisoned, but also their families, and the ability of both to participate in a democratic life after incarceration.
The work found in Cell Personae was made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund and appears here courtesy of Friedman Benda, New York, N.Y. The Herron Galleries presentation is made possible, in part, by the Creative Motif Fund, N.Y.
The Sum of Unity
February 3 – April 17, 2021
Berkshire, Reese and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
The Sum of Unity, curated by artist and Herron alumnus Samuel Levi Jones, is a composite exhibition in response to the divisive climate in which we all find ourselves. The main thrust of the exhibition will be protest signs – an art form that is often overlooked – created by more than 50 Indiana and Chicago-based artists, including Herron students, alumni, faculty and staff. As an auxiliary part of The Sum of Unity, Indianapolis artists Shamira Wilson and Clayton Hamilton have been asked to create new large-scale murals that will be seen alongside the 2018 animated video by Kota Ezawa, National Anthem.
Alicia Henry
Repercussions II: Recent Work by Alicia Henry
February 3 – March 13, 2021
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Through her unconventional approach to portraiture, Alicia Henry explores how gender, race, culture, and social differences influence us, creating arresting works of art that drive our perception of this genre of art and its possibilities. Henry's portraits and figures can be comical and dark at the same time; many are rooted in traditions ranging from clowning to blackface, the deeply racist and painful practice of white minstrel performers, as well as her own observations, both personal and public. Her art becomes a vehicle for her witness—to see and to be seen, to reveal and to represent the invisible.
David Plunkert
David Plunkert–The Visual Communi-gator
November 4, 2020 – March 13, 2021
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
David Plunkert–The Visual Communi-gator, is the first in Herron's new series of exhibitions to examine the best of today's illustrators. With clients such as Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Capital Records, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks, and Krispy Kreme, Plunkert's work has earned him recognition as one of the most innovative illustrators. The Visual Communi-gator shows his uniquely engaging vision through a variety of illustrations and studies, including a recent digital piece created for #COMBATCOVID, the city-wide public art campaign of Poster House in New York City.
Graduate Thesis Exhibition
November 4, 2020 – January 16, 2021
Berkshire, Reese and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
An exhibition showcasing the work of students that completed their master's degrees in May 2020.
Elizabeth M. Claffey & Rania Matar
A Tacit Inheritance: Elizabeth M. Claffey & Rania Matar
November 4, 2020 – January 10, 2021
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
A Tacit Inheritance featured two distinct bodies of work by Elizabeth M. Claffey and Rania Matar, each exploring the themes of identity and memory through broader experiences of women across generations and cultures. Claffey's "Matrilinear" offers a poetic window to layers of memory, through object portraits that represent a common thread of past, present, and future. In Matar's meticulously crafted portrait series "Unspoken Conversations," she explores womanhood at two seminal stages of life, adolescence and middle age.
This exhibition was supported, in part, by Aurora PhotoCenter.