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stereotype

February 8 – May 12, 2016
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (lower level) Historically, typography has been designed with two axes in mind, x and y. Today, in contrast, designers are broadening their perceptions about type to accommodate the added dimensions of a digital experiential world. Recent innovations in type design take principles of animation, interactivity, and kinetic movement and combine them with traditional components of typography, resulting in pioneering explorations in motion typography. This activity made possible, in part, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional funding provided by the Public Occasions Committee.
The Red Sun in Our Hearts

February 1 – July 20, 2016
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (upper level) Drawn exclusively from the DePauw University Permanent Art Collection, The Red Sun in Our Hearts surveys the mid-20th century Socialist Realism art movement from mainland China. Throughout the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, nearly everything from the visual arts and literature to music and theatrical production was created under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Socialist Realism rejected classical Chinese design elements and Western abstraction in favor of Soviet-inspired aesthetics and function. The CCP printed millions of political posters for decades, covering a wide range of social, economic, and political themes. This exhibition features 38 original political posters as well as stamps, film, and objects from the Cultural Revolution.
Heritage Barns: An Artist's Passion

May 31 - August 1, 2016
Peeler Art Center Galleries Gwen Gutwein has been a successful artist since graduating from Indiana University in the early 80’s. She has exhibited her paintings in galleries and museums in Indiana and throughout the United States. Her paintings continue to achieve acknowledgements and awards. In 2004 Gwen started a painting project trademarked Heritage Barns. She has completed the process of selecting historic barns from each of Indiana's 92 counties, doing most paintings on location. More exhibits from this series of paintings are currently on tour.
Rebecca Seeman: light play

August 24 – September 28, 2016
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery Rebecca Seeman manipulates and arrays multiples of humble household castoffs. In repurposing them she creates aesthetic spaces using directed light and cast shadows to engage the walls’ dimensions and surfaces in collaboration with the objects. Despite the lack of overt physicality the works may have an imaginary spatial expanse that, with the points of light, may also suggest faraway astral bodies.
Where Do We Migrate To?

September 8 – December 9, 2016
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (Lower Level) Where Do We Migrate To? explores diverging ways in which forms of migration, experiences of displacement, and questions of belonging have been addressed by artists in recent years. Displaying a multiplicity of migratory encounters, the exhibition presents multiple perspectives about its subject matter, opening up a range of political, psychological, poetic, and pragmatic manifestations of the contemporary migrant experience. The internationally touring exhibition Where Do We Migrate To? is curated by Niels Van Tomme, Director at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, and organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which also published the exhibition catalogue by the same title. The exhibition and catalogue are made possible, in part, with the support of the Flemish Government through Flanders House New York. Additional funding for this activity at DePauw University is made possible, in part, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics.
Jason S. Yi: Terraform

October 6 - December 9, 2016
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery An investigation of our terrestrial existence and experience critically affect Jason S. Yi’s work. The created forms and images become amalgamations of natural and built surroundings addressing the environmental and societal issues shaping the world. He incorporates humble materials and detritus to produce reimagined landscapes that reflect and critique conditions of contemporary society. Former architectural education and experience inform the work of psychology of spatial perceptions and his subsequent compositional decisions. An array of thoughts including environmental havoc transforming landscapes and human lives is intertwined to form a new visual terrain underscoring the nuances of perceptual experience and destabilizing our sense of reality. This exhibition is made possible by the Arthur E. Klauser Asian & World Community Collection Endowment and the Asian Studies Program at DePauw University.
Image Loading:

March 10 – April 5, 2015
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery IMAGE LOADING is a collection of new paintings that explore how we involve ourselves in myth-making. John Berry's paintings resist vanishing-point perspective, realistic light, and gravity in order to emphasize alternative, non-empirical ways of framing experience.
Annual Juried Student Exhibition

January 28 – March 2, 2015
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition features works created by current DePauw students enrolled in studio art courses. This year's exhibition will be juried by Betsy Stirratt, Director, Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University.
mediation

August 26 – October 14, 2015
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery New Media Artist Claudia Esslinger with Physicist Tom Giblin present a body of work that questions perceptions that are influenced by omnipresent media. From programmed “smart glass” to hacked and layered LED Screens, these pieces provide poetic interpretations of natural wonders, as filtered by technology.
Not Ready to Make nice: Guerrilla girls in the artworld and beyond

September 3 – December 13, 2015
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (Lower Level) Not Ready to Make Nice, a major presentation of the Guerrilla Girls, illuminates and contextualizes the important historical and ongoing work of these highly original, provocative and influential artists who champion feminism and social change. Focusing primarily on recent work from the past decade, the exhibition features rarely shown international projects that trace the collective’s artistic and activist influence around the globe. In addition, a selection of iconic work from the 80’s and 90’s illustrates the formative development of the group’s philosophy and conceptual approach to arts activism. The exhibition is further punctuated by documentary material including ephemera from famous actions, behind-the-scenes photos and secret anecdotes that reveal the Guerrilla Girls’ process and the events that drive their incisive institutional interventions. Visitors can peruse the artists’ favorite “love letters and hate mail,” and are invited to contribute their own voices to multiple interactive installations. This multimedia, expansive exhibition illustrates that the work of the anonymous, feminist-activist Guerrilla Girls is as vital and revolutionary as ever. Not Ready to Make Nice is curated by Neysa Page-Lieberman, director and curator of the Department of Exhibitions, Performance and Student Spaces, and adjunct faculty member in Visual Arts Management at Columbia College Chicago.