All Past Exhibitions

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Senior Thesis Exhibition

April 21 - May 20, 2023
Come view the tremendous accomplishments of DePauw University’s art students in the Senior Art Exhibition. Each student will present a brief statement about what inspired their creative explorations during the opening event. Stay for refreshments and the opportunity to talk to the artists individually.
Joey Quiñones: Americanoiseries

October 30 - December 8, 2023
In this series, artist Joey Quiñones uses objects associated with the home to highlight the global nature of the slave trade, and the complex social relations produced throughout the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Juried Student Exhibition: Juried by Mark Rospenda

February 1 - February 26, 2023
Juror Mark Rospenda brings depth to the curatorial role of the Juried Student Exhibition as he is both an artist and a curator. Rospenda lives and works in South Bend, IN, where he is Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the South Bend Museum of Art. He has organized and overseen more than 75 exhibitions during his time at the museum. Rospenda’s own work has been exhibited at the Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC; DEMO Project, Springfield, IL; Herron Galleries, Indianapolis, IN; and other locations nationally. As the winner of the Director’s Choice Award in the 2016 Art From the Heartland exhibition, he was granted a solo exhibition at the Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN, in early 2019. Rospenda will share his observations of the work juried into this exciting annual exhibition of student work during his curatorial talk.
Mark Rospenda: Filter Feeder

August 28 - December 8, 2023
While many varieties exist, some filter feeders are immobile ocean organisms that filter particles of food from the currents that move through and around them (the artist's favorites are sea fans). Instead of having the agency to actively seek sources of food, they must wait for it to be brought to them. Human experience of images is similar to how these organisms obtain sustenance. We do not ask to be immersed in images, and yet they are constantly washing through and over us. And those images, in turn, become a part of what we understand and believe. However, it seems that with increasing frequency we see things that exist outside of the structural framework we have constructed to understand our experiences. Whether publicly shared or in private, these are the moments that make us tell others that what we saw "felt like a movie." Disassociated from what feels real, these outliers make us reevaluate our understanding of a sane and rational world—coming through like a hurricane, tearing down the structures of understanding that we've built to make sense of the senseless. This exhibition of drawings and paper sculptures is a self portrait of the artist as a poetic representation of knowledge and belief—and questions how those rickety structures will hold up to moments that threaten to shake us to the core.
Remnants: A Solo Exhibition By Krista Svalbonas

February 1 - May 14, 2023
Krista Svalbonas has a longstanding interest in architecture and ideas of home. She is fascinated by the language of spatial relationships and the psychological effects of architectural form and structure upon the human condition. Svalbonas is ethnically Latvian/Lithuanian whose parents spent many years after the end of World War II in displaced-person camps in Germany before they were allowed to emigrate to the United States. Their childhood memories were of temporary structures, appropriated from other (often military) uses to house tens of thousands of postwar refugees. Svalbonas’s connection to this history has made her acutely aware of the impact of politics on architecture, and in turn on a people’s daily lived experience. Her work explores architecture’s relationship to cultural identity, social hierarchy, and psychological space. Svalbonas works in a variety of media, including photography, painting, and installation. Within her practice she is often looking at the range of the camera-generated image, and its combination with other media such as silkscreen, painting, collage, as well as its integration with technology including CNC routing and drone photography. Svalbonas’s avid interest lies at the intersections of media where these technical investigations serve social, political, and cultural explorations.
Modeling the Moche Worlds. The Ritual, Natural, and Supernatural Vessels at DePauw’s Art Collection

March 22 - June 30, 2023
Professor Vargas Marquez will be working with art history students of DePauw University to curate an exhibition that features ancient American objects from DePauw's permanent collection. Connecting history with museum practices, students will explore topics related to ethics, curating, collecting, and power through display. Participating Students: Solomon Alhakeem, Richard Beardsley, Trotter Benson, Ella Burrice, Marcus Childs, Abby Fathauer, Cora Gilbert, Josh Krusenklaus, Madison Montero, Anthony Parille, Jack Riggle, Jay'la Teasley, Blake Woodard, Jingze Zhou.
Infinite Splendor, Infinite Light: The Bruce Walker '53 Collection of Tibetan Religious Art

June 1 - June 30, 2023
Bruce Walker graduated from DePauw in 1953. After two years in the Marine Corps, he became a case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (1956-1973), working on the Agency's Tibetan resistance project 1960-1968. While stationed in India and Sikkim during the period 1962-1968, he assembled an impressive collection of Tibetan thangkas, works on paper, and religious objects which he donated to DePauw in 2002. The exhibition is also accompanied by a full color catalog with contributions from DePauw University students, faculty, and staff.
A Gallery Within A Gallery: Peeler Miniature Art Exhibition Co-Curated By Christie Anderson and Jerry Bates

October 3, 2022 - January 9, 2023
The pandemic inspired many people to extend their creative practices and explore ways in which they could create their own environments. The craze of the miniature museum and gallery was one such phenomenon that emerged. Christie Anderson, Peeler Art Center’s registrar and collections manager, and Jerry Bates, Peeler Art Center's preparator, will be co-curating an exhibition of miniature art created by five miniature artists, Betty Allen, Christie Anderson, Lene Dee Dragon, Robin Gee, and Nadia Michaux. Look for more information on a community workshop about making miniatures and the lengths that these artists go to make immersive environments.