All Past Exhibitions

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Abstract Traditions: Postwar Japanese Prints From The DePauw University Permanent Art Collection

August 29 - October 14, 2022
A pivotal moment in Japanese printmaking history, the artists associated with the modern print movement broke with centuries of rigid tradition and embraced the flexibility and spontaneous creativity afforded them by sketching, carving, and printing their own works. Previously, historic Japanese prints prior to the early 20thcentury relied upon a well-established workshop method in which artists, carvers, and printmakers each completed a specialized task in the printmaking process. This exhibition and the accompanying catalog feature, for the first time, 40 key abstract pieces from the DePauw University permanent art collection. Noted artists include: Iwami Reika, Onchi Koshiro, Sekino Junichiro, Shinoda Toko, and Yamaguchi Gen. Scholar and Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University, Dr. Helen Nagata, will be giving a presentation about the history of post-war printing in Japan on Tuesday, October 4th at 4:15 pm in the Peeler Auditorium. This exhibition and the accompanying print catalog was made possible with generous support from: Arthur E. Klauser ’45 Asian & World Community Collections Endowment, DePauw University Asian Studies Program, DePauw University David T. Prosser Jr. ‘65 Dr. Leland D. Stoddard '40 Japan Foundation Office of Academic Affairs, DePauw University E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists

February 7 – May 9, 2022
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists traces the extraordinary contributions of the female artists within the American Abstract Artists group, from the founders to today’s practicing members. Through fifty-four works, BlurringBoundaries explores the artists’ astounding range of styles, including their individual approaches to the guiding principles of abstraction: color, space, light, material, and process. Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936-Present was organized by The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY and the Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC
Many Pastorals

June 3 - June 26, 2022
The pastoral is an idea; a landscape that lives in the mind, in memory, and in the utopian impulse. The exhibition uses landscape as subject, frame, or referent to ruminate upon the urgent need to respond: to the observed universe, to the woods as we find them, and the walled gardens we build and live within. A dewdrop captures a passing cloud as effortlessly as a cat becomes a portal and a creek becomes a cosmic mirror. Although these works range widely in scale, tone and tenor, most of the paintings were made in one sitting.
Senior Art Exhibition

April 22 - May 21, 2022
An annual exhibition featuring the work of graduating senior studio art majors. The graduating seniors are Brian Antoine, Hannah Buchanan, Holly Buchanan, Anna Chinni, Abby Downs, Alyssa Luarde, Grace Miles, Abby Morrison, Emma Pizana, and Althea Jinzhi Qin.
Evidential Truths

Feb. 7-May 13, 2022
Evidential Truths confronts how ‘evidence’ and ‘truth’ have been appropriated to obfuscate our society’s understanding of the issues that threaten our democracy from gun control, public health, and equal rights. Working across media, Kretz deftly creates incredibly poignant work that unpacks our society’s obsession with conformity, power, and wealth. The work included in Evidential Truths spans two decades of work by Kretz demonstrating her ability to combine concept with materials and process infusing the work with powerful intensity.
Annual Juried Student Exhibition

February 7 – 27, 2022
The Annual Juried Student Exhibition features works created by current DePauw students enrolled in studio art courses. The 2022 Exhibition is juried by Tom Legoff. Tom LeGoff is a photographer based in New York City who specializes in portrait photography for dignitaries (including two U.S. Presidents), musicians, actors, authors, and the film industry. In addition to his professional career as a photographer, LeGoff teaches at the School of Creative & Performing Arts and previously at the New School at Parsons. LeGoff's studio interests explore the essence of presence within the photographic image and combine found objects, images, and narrative elements. LeGoff will present a curatorial talk on February 8th, 2022 at 4:15 p.m. in the Peeler Art Center. 2022 Awards 2-D 1st Daniela Chaparro '21, Quien Anda Ahi 2nd Hanna Buchanan '22, Scene 1 3rd Holly Buchanan '22, Resilience and Madison Montero, Purple Reflection 3-D 1st Anna Chinni '22, Squalor 2nd Grace Miles '22, Untitled (fight) 3rd Abby Downs '22, Layers
Queer Crip Craft Library Organized by Betsy Redelman Diaz

October 31 - December 9, 2022
Queer crip craft library is an accessible, intersectional living archive and performance space. Activated by books, zines, spoons, sculpture, comfortable seating, poetry, and conversation, the library is a space for reading, making, play, research, and critical dialogue at the intersections of queer crip craft theories and experiences.
COSMOCULUS

August 23 - October 10, 2021
Claire Ashley’s work investigates inflatables as painting, sculpture, installation and performance costume. These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, and site-specific installations, performances and collaborations. The following is from the artist Claire Ashley: For this show, I play with the idea of portals, oculi, and layers of visual experience that reference landscape, bodyscape and alien worlds. I want to promote the experience of looking both externally at the surface and form of the monumental painted inflatable sculptures and internally into their bellies or brains, through multiple eye openings or oculi of sorts, to other layers of experience. These portals reveal multiple translations - lit sculptural objects, digital video, cavernous sound, or fast paced virtual environments using the oculus quest. Look, listen, gently touch, relax, and give the oculus a go in this immersive environment. Audioscape created by sound artist and collaborator Joshua Patterson." Please see the Gallery Attendant for directions on using the virtual reality headset.
The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

March 8 - April 9, 2021
The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition features works created by current DePauw students enrolled in studio art courses. The 2021 exhibition is juried by Alexandra Chamberlain, Virtual Administrator for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries. This year's exhibition is virtual only on Instagram accepted artwork will be posted through the month of March.
Residue

November 1 - December 5, 2021
Change, decay, and regeneration are central to much of Rachel Eng's work in which the subject matter is our environment and our changing relationship to it. What is defined as ‘nature’ can be a variety of things, from a parking lot to a garden to a forest. These artworks are often driven by a question, and through the process of making more questions arise. Eng does not see the finished works as answers but a way to share an experience that possesses the complexity of these topics. Funding has been made possible by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.