Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Guild Gallery, and Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, September 1, 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Light & Gravity, wool sculpture by Indianapolis artist Gary Schmitt. Schmitt earned his BFA in Printmaking from Ohio University and MS in Informatics-New Media from IUPUI Indianapolis. He has worked in numerous art-related areas including outdoor muralist, gallery assistant, painter, printmaker, sculptor, graphic designer, new media designer and art instructor. His current focus is sculpting objects and images in wool. He states: “I sculpt objects in wool because of how the characteristics of the material transform the subjects, and affects their meaning. The felted wool not only describes the shape, it suggests other qualities such as blurring of intent, softness, or even antithetically, roughness. The meanings can be contradicting – contrasting serious and humorous aspects. I enjoy exploring ideas and connecting them, discovering things I don’t expect.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm and by appointment: 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present their annual Members’ Juried Show. Members will enter works in the categories of watercolor, painting on canvas, photography, sculpture and fine art crafts including ceramics, glass work, woodwork, jewelry and porcelain painting. The show will be juried for awards by Linda Volz, painter and head of the Hoosier Salon Gallery in New Harmony IN. There will be a best of show award, plus first, second and third place awards in each category. Honorable mention awards will be determined at the juror’s discretion. A People’s Choice award will be voted on and presented during opening night of the show. This is a great opportunity for visitors to the gallery to take in the breadth and depth of art expression offered by area artists.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
The Open Gallery, 329 Main will present The Wanderers, an award-winning series of photographs by Christopher Schneberger. This series takes the viewer on a twilight journey with young explorers that is at once contemplative, worrisome, dreamlike and arresting. Questions arise: are they really exploring or are they lost? Where do they want to go? What do they hope to find? What becomes of them? Schneberger states: “This series is in some ways my own processing of being lost and finding my way and gaining an appreciation of getting lost as a deliberate act.” The Open Gallery invites visitors to come and take this journey for themselves.
Christopher Schneberger is Assistant Professor of Art at Vincennes University and Director of the Shircliff Gallery of Art at the Shircliff Humanities Center.
A gallery artist’s talk has been scheduled for Thursday, September 28 at 6:00. The public is invited.
Visitors will again enjoy rollicking good Irish music by The First Friday Players
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 10 – 4:30 pm.
812- 881-6475.
The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing the annual art faculty exhibition. Participating artists include current faculty: Stephen Black, Christopher Schneberger, Ron Wise, Lalana Fedorschak, Sarah Turney, Amanda Linn, Hailey Schick and retired faculty Amy DeLap, Deborah Hagedorn, Bernard Hagedorn, Andrew Jendrzejewski, John Puffer and Karen Query. Also featured is a group of works by the late Jim Pearson, former instructor of printmaking and drawing.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm; the gallery will be open until 6 pm on First Friday September 1. 812-888-4316
Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, and Northwest Territory Art Guild Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, July 7, 5 – 8 pm. All three galleries will be opening new shows.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will introduce the time the boy lived, figurative ceramic sculpture by Taehoon Kim. Originally from Korea, Kim came to the US to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned a second MFA degree in ceramics. He now lives and works in Chicago. His pieces have a playful demeanor, and show connections with Korean anime, primitive art and folk art. They however also carry a deeper emotional message, reflecting the inner turmoil that can lie beneath a cheerful exterior. Kim’s previous work as a painter led to the brilliant color that enlivens these figures.
Unframed but matted photographs by Carol Messer and Tom Bartholomew will also be present in the gallery print bins.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm and by appointment: 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will open a new show of art by area artists, who have been invited to submit their works in an open call. Guild president John DeCoursey stated, “The Guild put out a similar open call last summer, and the response was so positive they wanted to offer area creatives the opportunity once again.” Last year about 40 pieces of local, original art were submitted, done by artists of all ages, backgrounds, preferred mediums and skill levels. “We were thinking about the fact that there are a lot of artists in our area that haven’t had any kind of exposure,” DeCoursey said. “This is a great way to help them show off their art and bring new people to us who have never been inside our gallery.”
Summer-themed 2 and 3-dimensional artworks by Guild members will also be shown in a variety of media, techniques, styles, and subject matter.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
The Open Gallery, 329 Main will once again welcome artist Stephen Black, a Professor of Art and Design at Vincennes University, who will exhibit new work in July and August. This latest body of work features a variety of collage pieces that explore shape, color and imaging using letter forms and words. Black will be on hand at the opening to talk with patrons and guests about his work.
Rosary craftsman Sam Williams will also be present. His beautiful and inspiring work, which will include new creations, can be seen at the entrance to the gallery.
Visitors will again enjoy rollicking good Irish music by The First Friday Players
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 12 – 4:30 pm and by chance.
The work of Carol Messer and Tom Bartholomew will be at ArtSpace beginning First Friday this week.
From the still capture of a rural moment, to a thrumming hum of more urban life, photographers Carol Messer and Tom Bartholomew will show divergent but harmonious views of “where we are” in an exhibit by the same name that opens Friday, as part of the first Friday Art Walk series, then continuing through June 17. The exhibit will host receptions from 5-8 p.m. May 5 and June 2, then will continue Tuesdays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. at Art Space Vincennes, at 521 Main Street.
A word from ArtSpace:
We felt it would be interesting to see the points of connection and divergence that would provoke thought if these two photographers dealing with essentially the same subject matter but with different points of view, were represented together in an exhibition. The two images used for the exhibition postcard, can get us started.
Tom had closed his wedding photography business and was on a mission to explore his own creative work. We saw images on his Facebook page described as “adventures in black and white”. He was driving around Knox County photographing the landscape and buildings, the latter often deserted and falling into disrepair with the passage of time. We were struck by the evocative silence and compelling mystery that seemed to envelope these new subjects.
Carol had embarked on her project of photographing rural farms and fields, often in the magic light of evening, as a path through the isolation of the Covid pandemic. She brought some of her photographs into the gallery one afternoon, and we ended up spending hours with her, newly impressed by every image we saw.
We became aware last year that both Carol Messer and Tom Bartholomew were engaged in photographing Knox County surroundings. Water surrounds trees whose trunks merge into their reflections. Compositionally we see three horizontal layers. At the top, moving clouds create a band of grays and warm whites. Leafless tree branches reach up to touch the clouds. The middle ground falls from blue into darkness, with a surprising glimpse of coral at the horizon. We can barely discern a road, and buildings that line it, behind the trees. The shimmering river takes up almost the entire bottom half of the format, varying between the greenish blue of reflected sky and the grayer surface of the water, with its light lines and shapes of reflected clouds. The light is fading quickly. Although stillness prevails, all is changing moment by imperceptible moment.
Her work calls to mind the Hudson River School painters whose landscape paintings were intended to evoke the presence of the “sublime” in nature.
In her artist statement Carol writes: “These photographs stop time and capture the “now,” treasuring up for us moments of grace as we contemplate the enormous panorama of earth meeting sky…[they] celebrate the play of light on the earth, the dance of color in our fields and on trees, the dampness of rain in our ditches, the fecundity of our fields and daily, the incredible play of clouds in the skies above us.” The appearance of farm buildings in Carol’s paintings is significant – they reference the people who work the land, and their small footprint reminds us of the vastness of the natural forms and forces within which we live. One thinks of the landscapes of the Chinese poet-painters, in which the human-made temples and bridges are barely discernible. Carol’s recent full embrace of photography has evolved from a lifetime of engagement with the fine arts in many forms. She studied painting and drawing, and focused on printmaking in both undergraduate and graduate work. While earning her MFA at the University of Kentucky, she became interested in landscape art and classical European gardens, and began to experiment with landscape sculpture in porcelain. Her many art-related life experiences have included teaching, mounting exhibitions, and serving as Director for the Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs in Bergen County, New Jersey. Her passionate interest in medieval architecture has taken her to the UK and France to visit cathedrals. It was in this travel that she “discovered the art of photography as a means of furthering her involvement in the arts”. Moving from nature to the constructs of man, this photograph by Tom Bartholomew could be considered a portrait of a building. Like Carol’s photograph, it is also divided into thirds, this time vertically. A dark, imposing structure dominates the format left. Diagonals within and around it create a disquieting sense of potential shift and upheaval. Gray sky provides a backdrop for fire escape ladders in the center and telephone pole with its undulating wires on the right. There are no people, but humans were the builders and their creations have anthropomorphic character, the building on the left heavy and morose, the ladders, telephone pole and wires ephemeral and tentative. Tom notes, “As a newspaper photographer and as a wedding and portrait photographer my work dealt undeniably with people; the things they did and the way they did them.” What distinguished Tom’s photography, as he served the public in these two differing ways, was attention to how he presented his subject(s). He gave thought to context and composition, offering unexpected paths to the delicate balance of unity and variety and introducing the element of surprise.
In Tom’s retirement journey the human presence in his photographs continues to be essential.
“Driving around in rural America, the landscapes I stop to photograph more often than not bear the marks of people. A pump house, a church or the boarded-up windows of a Main Street nobody visits anymore all tell the story of the people who were there. In rural America it’s frequently the story of people and an economy that have moved on. Of all the images I delivered for this show only one had an actual person in it. But they all have people in them.”
Tom’s work continues to be narrative, telling a story. This makes sense given his grounding in photo-journalism. At Columbia College he worked with John H. White, a nationally celebrated photographer who received a Pulitzer Prize in Photojournalism. Other artists he cites as influential, such as Susan Meiselas, Danny Lyon and Dennis Stock are affiliated with the Magnum Foundation and Magnum Photos. The Foundation is dedicated to expanding creativity and diversity in documentary photography and supports “a global network of social justice and human rights-focused photographers and experiments with new models for storytelling”.
Tom’s interest in social justice, and his compassion for those whose lives are defined by struggle has manifested both in what he has studied and where he has worked. His studies have included coursework in sociological theory, urban sociology, statistics, Marxian sociology, personality theory, organizational behavior, social inequality, the American elite, behavioral methods, cultural anthropology and social psychology. He has worked and volunteered in many care settings, including staff and administrative positions in nursing homes, and activities development for the local YMCA Senior Services Project.
The photographs Tom is showing in this exhibition ask the viewer to consider how these abandoned buildings, empty rooms and other-worldly landscapes came to be as they are. He does so with compositions that foster a sense of mystery and questioning unease.
Thinking about the points of connection one can find between these two artists, I find myself considering what the medium of photography can uniquely offer, and what these two artists are offering through it.
Although technology now offers such a spectrum of ways photography can be manipulated, in the end it still carries a historical sense of being grounded in fact, authenticity, and truth. “The camera never lies.” I feel that both artists have arrived, after lifetimes of work, and thinking, and searching, and more work, at discovering increasingly refined “truths” to share with us. But these truths are more like questions or gentle suggestions than bodies of knowledge. Both ask us to stop, and look at and consider places and ideas we might ordinarily pass by, distracted by the increasing complexity of just getting through the day. They gift us with the experiences latent for us in what they have learned to see.
Tom’s photographs invite us to connect with the ghosts or spirits or unseen presences of people no longer with us which seem somehow to adhere to or be inherent in the spaces and objects they created and the atmospheric landscapes through which they have passed.
Carol’s photographs, in her words, share her “many sacred and fleeting moments in our farms, fields and woods” with hope that we too can find the “song within our deepest self that is good and finds itself wonderfully expressed in our connection with nature.”
Both are asking us to tune into the unseen that is not beneath or beyond what is seen, but is exquisitely embodied within it, present now, outside of time.
–An Art Space Gallery preview of the “Where We Are” exhibit by Andy Jendrzejewski
See what is being showcased in our downtown galleries during the “First Friday” Art Walk held each month! Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Gallery, and Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, March 3. Downtown galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm, Shircliff gallery closes at 6 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Journey through Monotype Prints, Amanda Barrow and Elizabeth Busey. Barrow, originally from Indiana but now working in East Hampton, Massachusetts and Busey, from Bloomington, Indiana met at a workshop in Brooklyn in January 2020. Both artists work non-objectively with a focus on the interaction of geometric shapes. Barrow’s pieces, influenced by her travels in India, offer ethereal organic abstractions inspired by nature, architecture and the human body. In contrast, Busey’s works are collage based, constructed with clean-edged tesserae of monotype prints, cyanotypes, vintage maps and gold leaf. Busey also draws inspiration from travel, with references to topography and plant forms evoking feelings of memory, longing and connection. Both artists will be present at the March opening.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm and by appointment: 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present Goose Pond Marsh Madness, featuring over fifty wildlife photos by Guild Member Steve LaRoche. These will include many of waterfowl and other wildlife from the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area south of Linton. Staff from Goose Pond have created a window display at the Guild depicting Goose Pond. Spring themed artworks created by Guild members in a wide variety of styles and media will also be on display and for sale.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
The Open Gallery, 329 Main will present a retrospective exhibition of works by John Baeder. Michael Mullen, gallery co-director, has been collecting Baeder’s artworks over the span of a life-long friendship with the artist, and is now sharing this collection. It offers the rare opportunity to witness the trajectory of this nationally recognized artist’s career, including his diner watercolors, photocollage pieces, and more recent vintage airplane paintings and matchbook paintings. Yale Professor of Art Vincent Scully wrote that it’s his emotional attachment to his subject matter that sets Baeder’s work apart from many of the other Photorealists: “John Baeder’s paintings seem to me to differ from most of those of his brilliant Magic-Realist contemporaries in that they are gentle, lyrical, and deeply in love with their subjects.”
The First Friday Players will again provide rollicking good Irish music for visitors to enjoy.
Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm and by chance.
812- 881-6475.
The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Diminution of Light: Alternative Photographic Process. The exhibition presents works by Larry Gawal, Mark Schoon & Casey McGuire, Antonio Martinez and John Steck, Jr. Alternative process photography is a term used to describe any non-traditional photographic printing processes such as cyanotype, salt prints, photograms and pinholes. A reception for the artists will take place at the gallery on Thursday, March 2. The exhibition will continue through March 10.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm; the gallery will be open until 6 pm on First Friday March 3. 812-888-4316
See what is being showcased in our downtown galleries during the “First Friday” Art Walk held each month! The Art Space Gallery, the Open Gallery and the Northwest Territory Art Guild Gallery offer a chance to view and purchase work by accomplished artists with changing exhibitions each month. From 5:00pm – 8:00pm, the public is invited to browse through the galleries, enjoy light snacks and good company. *Check the events listings from this website for the next “First Friday” coming up!
Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Gallery, Shircliff Gallery, Dragoon pop-up temporary gallery, and the Democratic Headquarters for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, November 4. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Terminable Landscapes/Small Dramas, digital drawings, and photo montages by retired Vincennes University Art Professor Jim Pearson. The exhibition has two interrelated themes. Long horizontal rectangular compositions reflect the complexity of the natural world and our impact upon it. Smaller works include figurative imagery and are vignettes of dramas, tragedies, and questions about human life. They are not intended to be literal, but to leave open possibilities for viewers to consider. Both bodies of work demonstrate Jim’s sensitivity to the expressive power of tonal value. The exquisite refinement of meaning that results are impacted by his intense focus on his work during retirement, his long history of teaching drawing and printmaking, and his education in printmaking, a discipline whose exacting demands were passed on to him via his excellent teachers, including Rudy Pozzatti, at Indiana University, Bloomington where he earned his MFA degree.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145. Closed Thanksgiving weekend, 11/24 – 11/28.
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Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will be showing fall and winter-themed works by Guild members, as well as a special sale of works that will continue into December.
These will be in a variety of styles and media and will offer a great opportunity to start thinking about Christmas gift-giving.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
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The Open Gallery, 329 Main will open These Roads Don’t Move, works by Christina Zimmer Robinson and Sarah Wolfe. Both artists recently participated in the Indiana Arts Commission On-Ramp program. Robinson’s works focus on her interest in aligning control, structure, and harmonious relationships between colors. She explores various mediums and styles, including abstraction, portraiture, sculpture, and textile work.
Wolfe characterizes her work for this exhibition as exploratory and flights of freedom from the many duties both women juggle as wives, mothers, and working artists. While Wolfe agrees that the two bodies of her work for this show may seem disparate, the abstract floral pieces are “a joyous, freeing exploration of color and textures gleaned from the outside world. The anatomical works are simply the inverse–an examination of our potentially gloriously interesting innards.” The show will run until mid-December.
The First Friday Players will again provide rollicking good Irish music for visitors to enjoy.
Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm, and by chance. 812- 881-6475
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Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters, 314 Main Street will give viewers another chance to see Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas in his series Our Rights, Our Freedom, Our Vote. These 13 pieces, each 20.5” x 3” address the historic difficulties many groups have faced in striving for the right to vote. For more information, please contact Marsha Fleming, at 812-890-1688 or Fernando Lozano, at 323-559-1954.
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Dragoon (a “pop-up” gallery) at 517 Main Street will feature photographs with sound interpretations by Ken Park. This exhibition will only be available during the First Friday Art Walk. New works are added each month. —
The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will present Flood and Pull, a two-person exhibition of works by Jay Ryan and Ryan Stander, two artists using printmaking techniques in their contemporary practice.
Ryan begins with illustration, creating whimsical and imaginative images with pen and ink. The images frequently depict mischievous wilderness creatures cavorting in ways which serve to reflect on and question our own human behavior.
Stander’s series, Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid explores social and cultural topics through the use of indirect visual symbols. Viewers are encouraged to piece together meaning through loose associations, rather than explicit illustration. He draws upon various cultural frameworks, including his past theological education to express ideas, questions, and critiques.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316; the gallery will be open until 6 pm on the First Friday, November 4.
Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Gallery, Shircliff Gallery, Dragoon pop-up temporary gallery, and the Democratic Headquarters for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, October 7. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm. The Autumn on Main festival will run from 6 – 10 pm and will include food trucks, live music, beer and wine tasting, and “Touch a Truck” sponsored by State Farm agent Andrew Hinz. Participating Main Street businesses will be open for extended hours.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Personal Perspectives, monoprints, collage, and watercolor artworks by retired Vincennes University Art Professor Deborah Hutchinson-Hagedorn. These recent works express this artist’s love of nature; the subject matter is often landscape, at times with a focus on a single tree. Deborah states, “The tree acts as a metaphor for life and rebirth through seasonal dying and renewal.” There are also abstract pieces reflecting inspirational life experiences, revealed through the artist’s deep understanding of expressive color and her expertise in the many-layered processes involved in creating a monotype print. This month offers a unique opportunity for gallery-goers to have an in-depth experience of Deborah’s work; see the information on the Northwest Territory Art Guild’s October show.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Due to the continued high rate of COVID infection in Knox County, masking is recommended, but not required.
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present an exhibition of sculptures byBernard Hagedorn and prints by Deborah Hutchinson-Hagedorn. The exhibition will be an overview of works by both artists. Some works have not been previously exhibited. This month offers a unique opportunity for gallery-goers to have an in-depth experience of Deborah’s work; see the information on Art Space Vincennes’ October show.
Works by Guild members in a variety of styles and media will also be on display and for sale.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
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The Open Gallery, 329 Main will continue Drive-by Shootings, photographs by former Vincennes University Professor of Photography Arthur Fields. Fields conceived this series idea during the lonely hours of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown as a way to stay in touch with those things that brought him joy, including the art of photography. The exhibition features a variety of people on their front porches, photographed from a street vantage point, framed by the outlines of their homes where they were obliged to remain for weeks. The collection has at one and the same time a sameness about the small-town folks, and yet, upon closer inspection, the portraits reveal a varied and arresting cadre of individuals living together, separately, during a time of great worldwide upheaval. Arthur will be coming from his new home in Texas to be at the First Friday reception.
The First Friday Players will again provide rollicking good Irish music for visitors to enjoy.
Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm, and by chance. 812- 881-6475
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Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters, 314 Main Street will give viewers another chance to see Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas in his series Our Rights, Our Freedom, Our Vote. These 13 pieces, each 20.5” x 3” address the historic difficulties many groups have faced in striving for the right to vote. For more information, please contact Marsha Fleming, at 812-890-1688 or Fernando Lozano, at 323-559-1954.
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Dragoon (a “pop-up” gallery)at 517 Main Street will feature photographs with sound interpretations by Ken Park. This exhibition will only be available during the First Friday Art Walk. New works are added each month. —
The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Ebb and Flow, a two-person collaborative exhibition by painter/photographer Betsy Stirratt and printmaker Tracy Templeton. The artists have explored sites in Indiana for the last several years, searching for and documenting little-known places where water is central to the landscape and culture.
The exhibit consists of framed photographs, painting/photo collages, chine collé prints, and hanging translucent image scrims that create an atmospheric and experiential encounter for the viewer. Exploration of the region is ongoing, with more works to be made in the next few months. The beauty and hidden history of these places are revealed in these artworks.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316; the gallery will be open until 6 pm on First Friday, October 7.
Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, the Open Gallery, the Northwest Territory Art Gallery, the Shircliff Gallery, the Dragoon pop-up temporary gallery and the Democratic Headquarters for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, September 2. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Personal Perspectives, monoprints, collage, and watercolor artworks by retired Vincennes University Art Professor Deborah Hutchinson-Hagedorn. These new works express this artist’s love of nature; the subject matter is often landscape, at times with a focus on a single tree. Deborah states, “The tree acts as a metaphor for life and rebirth through seasonal dying and renewal.” There are also abstract pieces that reflect inspirational life experiences, revealed through the artist’s deep understanding of expressive color and her expertise in the many-layered processes involved in creating a monotype print.
Due to the continued high rate of COVID infection in Knox County, masking is recommended.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will open their annual Members Juried Art Exhibition. Guild members will exhibit works in a wide variety of media and styles. An outside juror will select awards which will be announced during the First Friday reception.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
The Open Gallery, 329 Main will open Drive-by Shootings, photographs by former Vincennes University Professor of Photography Arthur Fields. Fields conceived this series idea during the lonely hours of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown as a way to stay in touch with those things that brought him joy, including the art of photography. The exhibition features a variety of people on their front porches, photographed from a street vantage point, framed by the outlines of their homes where they were obliged to remain for weeks. The collection has at one and the same time a sameness about the small-town folks, and yet, upon closer inspection, the portraits reveal a varied and arresting cadre of individuals living together, separately, during a time of great worldwide upheaval. The exhibition will run through October 30. A reception for the artist, who will visit from his new home in Texas, will be held during October’s First Friday Art Walk.
The First Friday Players will again provide rollicking good Irish music for visitors to enjoy.
Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm and by chance. 812- 881-6475
The new Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters, 314 Main Street will give viewers another chance to see Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas in his series Our Rights, Our Freedom, Our Vote. These 13 pieces, each 20.5” x 3” address the historic difficulties many groups have faced in striving for the right to vote.
For more information, please contact Marsha Fleming, 812-890-1688 or Fernando Lozano, 323-559-1954.
The pop-up gallery space at 517 Main Street will feature the exhibition Dragoon, photographs with sound interpretations by Ken Park. This exhibition will only be available during the First Friday Art Walk.
The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Bone Deep, paintings by Michael K. Paxton. Paxton, a well-established Chicago fine artist whose career spans more than forty-eight years, is also a sixth-generation West Virginian from the coalfields of deepest Appalachia. In his series, Bone Deep, he plumbs his Appalachian roots. Slides of coal miners’ black lungs are translated first to sketches, then larger drawings, then immense canvases. The dark source images transform into richly colored compositions, bordering on abstract expressionism. They seduce the eye while raising awareness of a people and culture underrepresented in contemporary art.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316
Join friends at three downtown galleries, the Democratic Headquarters, and the Dragoon pop-up gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, August 5. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Otherside Visions, colorful calligraphic non-objective watercolor paintings on panel, and mylar by Gwaylon Leaf. Leaf is an emerging artist whose work embodies multicultural complexity. Raised in the US but surrounded by the Taoist philosophy and Chinese art that influenced his father, artist Bill Leaf, he embraces a “sense of otherness that experience with his cultures has granted him.” His awareness of traditional Chinese art merges with the “aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary western artists such as Cy Twombly and Mark Toby.” Gwaylon Leaf earned his BFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno. He currently lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Due to the current COVID rise in numbers, masking is recommended.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will feature works of members of the Watercolor Society of Indiana. This organization, headquartered in Indianapolis, seeks to educate Indiana residents about the discipline of the watercolor medium through exhibits, juried competitions, classes, discussions, demonstrations, outreach programs, and community service. Work by Guild members in watercolor and other media will also be on display and for sale.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
The Open Gallery 329 Main will continue The Faces Behind Peace, Artwork by Fernando Lozano. Lozano writes this about his work: “Art became my saving grace after the devastating tragedy of losing my son, and it is from that inspiration that I am presenting this series. The idea to read and research about people who selflessly dedicated their lives to promoting peace and who had won the Nobel Peace Prize was a welcoming subject after finishing the series The Faces of Torture. Their characters surface slowly over the word ‘PEACE’, dictating the colors and composition of the canvas. It was and still is a subject that I go back to when I need a reaffirmation of humanity, knowing that I am just scratching the surface because there are still so many great humans to know and celebrate.”
The First Friday Players will again provide rollicking good Irish music for visitors to enjoy.
Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm, and by chance. 812- 881-6475
The new Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters314 Main Street will give viewers another chance to see Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas in his series Our Rights, Our Freedom, Our Vote. These 13 pieces, each 20.5” x 3” address the historic difficulties many groups have faced in striving for the right to vote.
For more information, please contact Marsha Fleming, at 812-890-1688, or Fernando Lozano, at 323-559-1954.
The pop-up gallery space at 517 Main Street will feature the exhibition Dragoon, photographs by Ken Park. This exhibition will only be available on First Friday.
Coming up: The Shircliff Gallery First and Harrison Streets, will open Bone Deep, paintings by Michael K. Paxton on Wednesday, August 17 at 11:00 a.m. Paxton is a well-established Chicago fine artist who is also a sixth-generation West Virginian from the coalfields of deepest Appalachia, with a career that now spans more than forty-eight years. In his series, Bone Deep, Paxton plumbs his Appalachian roots. Beginning with slides of coal miners’ black lungs, he translates them first to sketches, then larger drawings, then immense canvases where the dark source images transform into richly colored compositions, bordering on abstract expressionism, which seduces the eye while raising awareness of a people and culture underrepresented in contemporary art.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316
Join friends at three downtown galleries, the Democratic Headquarters, and the Dragoon pop-up temporary gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, July 1. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Otherside Visions, paintings by Gwaylon Leaf. Leaf will be exhibiting colorful calligraphic non-objective acrylic paintings on panels and mylar.
Leaf is an emerging artist whose work embodies multicultural complexity. Raised in the US, but surrounded by the Taoist philosophy and Chinese art that influenced his father, artist Bill Leaf,
Gwaylon embraces a “sense of otherness that experience with his cultures has granted him.” His awareness of traditional Chinese art merges with the “aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary western artists such as Cy Twombly and Mark Toby.” Gwaylon Leaf earned his BFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his MFA degree from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is currently living and working in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present Be My Guest, an open exhibition of artworks by local artists. Area artists who are not guild members and who may never have exhibited in a gallery setting are invited to bring in work for this show. Guild President John DeCoursey was inspired to offer this opportunity to local artists after seeing an episode of Journey Indiana which featured a northern Indiana gallery doing this form of outreach. Visitors to the gallery will enjoy never-before-seen works by local talent, in a wide range of media. Space permitting, work by Guild members will also be on display and for sale.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
The Open Gallery 329 Main will open The Faces Behind Peace, Artwork by Fernando Lozano. Lozano writes this about his work: “Art became my saving grace after the devastating tragedy of losing my son, and it is from that inspiration that I am presenting this series. The idea to read and research about people who selflessly dedicated their lives to promoting peace and who had won the Nobel Peace Prize was a welcoming subject after finishing the series The Faces of Torture. Their characters surface slowly over the word ‘PEACE’, dictating the colors and composition of the canvas. It was and still is a subject that I go back to when I need a reaffirmation of humanity, knowing that I am just scratching the surface because there are still so many great humans to know and celebrate.”
The Open Gallery Players will again provide rollicking good Irish music for visitors to enjoy.
Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm, and by chance. 812- 881-6475
Dragoon 510 Main, a “pop-up gallery” will show photographs by Ken Pack, only during this July First Friday evening. Pack will include new work along with pieces he has shown during the last two Art Walks.
The new Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters314 Main Street will continue to show Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas from his series Our Rights, Our Freedom, Our Vote. These 13 pieces, each 20.5” x 3” address the historic difficulties many groups have faced in striving for the right to vote.
For more information, please contact Marsha Fleming, 812-890-1688, or Fernando Lozano, 323-559-1954.
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