2020 Exhibits

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  Ian Weaver - The Black Knight Archive: Migration

  October 26 - December 1, 2020
  Ian Weaver utilizes a variety of media to act as metaphors for “fracture”. Weaver is interested in how we – as individuals and communities – construct our own identities and memories from the fractured, disparate elements of our lives. Such identities are constructed through commemorations and the objects we construct and archive. The work included in this exhibition centers on the Near West Side of Chicago: a large multi-ethnic community, and, specifically, the "Black Bottom" section of the Near West Side where black residents once lived. The various parts of the Near West Side and the Bottom were destroyed to construct an expressway and a university in the mid-1960’s. As a result, the community lost much of its history. Weaver has constructed a fictional history for this community utilizing a variety of handmade faux elements that allude to preservation and material culture such as museum vitrines, maps and documents of the community, various sculptures, and textiles. Recently, Weaver has extended this construction to the creation of a fictional group, the Black Knights – inspired in part by his interest in both medieval heraldry and black activism – who have, ostensibly, lived within the “Black Bottom” community, circa 1940s. Weaver has developed lore for the Black Knights who have used political, social, and guerrilla tactics to fight for the survival of the community. Viewers are invited to engage with this fictional narrative through the objects that Weaver has constructed in a way that encourages us to consider the value of history. How might these fragmented parts add to a whole understanding of a cultural experience? How do objects play a role in building and sustaining cultural and socio-political power? Listen to Ian Weaver’s talk that will be available on our site beginning November 2, 2020. Ian Weaver is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Saint Mary's College, South Bend, IN. His M.F.A. (Visual Art) is from Washington University in St Louis. His exhibitions include a survey of work at the South Bend Museum of Art, as well as solo exhibitions at The Chicago Cultural Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, and Saint Louis Art Museum.

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  Logan Dandridge

  October 26 - December 1, 2020
  Dandridge’s videos include footage from a wide variety of sources, reflecting his “interests in web-based culture and media convergence.” In Dandridge’s work, the athletic, the artistic, and the colloquial coexist with one another, as the artist draws his viewers into a world that “examines the poetics of memory and trauma in consort with a visual and textual exegesis of African American literature.” Music is central to Dandridge’s work, and his research and video installations explore the musical technique of counterpoint, which the artist describes as the “art of balancing similarity and difference to create harmony between separate melodies.” The images, language, and music in Dandridge’s videos are perpetually new, even to repeat visitors to the exhibition, as the videos are of different lengths and are constantly shifting in their relationship to one another, creating opportunities for different perspectives and nuanced responses. In this way, Dandridge is interested in the “associative dialogue” that emerges through “visual montage, proximity and simultaneity.” In response to the work, Dandridge observes that “within these emanations, the pride, beauty, and fear that infuse Black music is momentarily visible. Images are sometimes just documents, some are provocation, but others are testimony: The sounds is the picture.” Logan Dandridge (b. 1994, Richmond, VA) is a moving image artist whose films interrogate various histories through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema. He received his BA from the University of Virginia in 2016 and his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art in 2018.

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  Faculty Exhibition

  March 5 – October 6, 2020
  Every so often, we gather our studio faculty together for a joint exhibition showcasing their most recent works in their respective disciplines. Join us this spring as we celebrate current studio faculty and their ongoing work and research.

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  Mediterranean Fire, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)

  February 3 – June 9, 2020
  Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) is a culmination of curator Biba Sheikh’s collaborations with Mediterranean refugees, thirteen Arab-world artists have created a body of work that weaves her poetic texts, shared immigrant experiences, and their own testimonies into visual works of art. Collectively, they illuminate stories of indignation, systemic discouragement, human trafficking, gender biases, exodus, and survival of life as human flotsam in an ever changing, turbulent political ocean. Together with Sheikh, the artists are discussing Refugees, America, and Cultural Hybrid Theories. The artists of Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) communicate through a variety of media delivering messages rich in thematic subjects. One theme that dominates the refugee experience, that of landscape arrives on canvas where architecture, political apparatuses and history are dismantled with the destructive revelry of a toddler. The theme of landscape is revisted by several participants with such concerns as the constant metamorphosis of social structure, moving boundaries between capitalism and culture, war, and the facets of the human psyche. Sheikh spent years conducting ‘creative interventions’ with Syrian refugee youth detained on the Greek island of Mykonos and in Athens, and Beirut. Certain of the healing property of story telling, Sheikh has employed Hakawati (a traditional storytelling platform that engages the community in problem solving), dance, art, and sound to assist the youth in finding their own voice of liberation. The resulting script of Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) is a theatrical fusion of personal reflection melded with Arab flamenco rhythms and sound poetry which will be used in continuing workshops with youth refugees. The artists of this exhibition, many of whom are current residents of occupied territories and refugee camps, include: Hani Alqam (Jordan), Thameur Mejri (Tunisia), Sinan Hussein (Iraq), Taghlib Oweis (Jordan), Wael Darweish (Egypt), Ahmed Nagy (Egypt), Klaudja Sulaj (Albania), Lucas Paleocrassas (Greece), Manal Kortam (Lebanon), Abbas Yousif (Bahrain), Basel Uraiqat (Jordan), Mohammed Al Hawajri (Palestine), Haitham Khatib (Syria), May Murad (Palestine), Hassan Meer (Oman). All have been given a voice through this Detroit based endeavor. in Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), we have witness to how their situations reverberate with refugees world-wide.

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  Society of American Graphic Artists, Print Exhibition

  February 3 – June 10, 2020
  The Society of American Graphic Artists was founded in 1915 and called the Brooklyn Society of Etchers. It was started by printmakers with the goal of educating the public about printmaking as an art form. Some of the founding members were Ernest Roth, John Taylor Arms, Childe Hassam, and John Marin. The Council and members of SAGA continue the founding members’ mission through national exhibitions and print symposiums. SAGA today reflects the growth and changes taking place in printmaking. This exhibition displays the prints of sixty-six SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were created in the twenty-first century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, our members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. Our members continue to push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

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  Annual Juried Student Exhibition

  January 30 – February 25, 2020
  The Annual Juried Student Exhibition features works created by current DePauw students enrolled in studio art courses. The 2020 Exhibition is juried by David Anthony Ondrik. David Ondrik is an artist, educator, and writer. He received his BFA from the University of New Mexico in 1998. For ten years he taught visual art in public high schools and in 2009 he achieved a National Board Certification for Early Adolescent / Young Adult Visual Art Instruction. His artwork has been exhibited across the country, appears in numerous publications, and is in the collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and multiple New Mexico public art collections. He received his MFA in photography from Indiana University in 2017 and is currently a Lecturer in Photography at Indiana University.