2021 Exhibits

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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.
MisPerceptions

September 13 - December 10, 2021
Unknown Artist "Tanegashima" Matchlock Rifle with Case, 1600-1650 Metal, Wood Gift of Arthur E. Klauser 45' 1991.11.135a-b Unknown Artist Chess board with chess pieces, 20th century Wood, ivory, and cloth Gift of Arthur E. Klauser'45 1991.11.269a-ii Unknown Artist Japanese Katana with brown leather sheath metal and leather Gift of Arthur E. Klauser 45' 1999.2.1a-b Andy Warhol Keith Haring, 1980-1986 Silver gelatin photograph © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 2008.3.28 Brian Eno, Peter Schmidt and Pae White Oblique Strategies: One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas, Fourth Again Revised and More Universal Edition, 1996 Paper, Ceramic, and Ink Gift of Terry Myers '87 2008.4.1a-yyyy Judi Werthein Brinco, 2005 mixed media Purchased by DePauw University 2009.8.1a-g Shojono Tomo Love Allergy Mask, 2015 fabric, dye Purchased by DePauw University 2015.7.1 Unknown Artist Puppet, 1974 Mixed media Gift of Catherine Fruhan 2015.21.12
Out of Isolation

August 30 - December 10, 2021
Co-curated by Director and Curator Maggie Leininger and Klauser Fellow, Austin Canales, this exhibition brings together a collection of artists whose work evokes the sensibility of isolation, meditation, and reflection which are many terms that we have gotten accustomed to during the pandemic.
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.
Messages of Hope

May 21 - September 30, 2021
Messages of Hope is a community participatory project coordinated by the Museum Studies students at DePauw University. The project’s founder, artist Frank Maugeri, developed the project in 2020 in order to facilitate the expression of hundreds of participants seeking to convey a sense of hope during a time of uncertainty. Maugeri partnered with DePauw University’s Museum Studies students to bring the project to Greencastle, Indiana where over 60 participants created a shadow box expressing a unique message of hope using a variety of materials and objects at hand. The public can view the boxes at DePauw Nature Park as they walk along the Rail and Creekside trail. #cabocuriosity #DePauwArt #TheGalleriesAtPeeler on Instagram.
Senior Art Exhibition

April 19 - May 10, 2021
An annual exhibition featuring the work of graduating senior studio art majors.
PARADOXICAL UNDRESSING (a liquidation sale and art show)

March 8 - April 9, 2021
In an exercise of salutary art, Professor Lori Miles will be selling off her entire career of artworks for rock-bottom prices. This Everything-Must-Go sale includes nearly-useless large-scale sculptures, offensive disaster-related paintings, odd assemblages that no one but a mother could love, and altered digital prints that seem to be from another time entirely. This clearing house exhibition will pave the way for a new, yet-unknown chapter of Miles' creative career, with possibilities including recycling plastic into boards to make a modern-day Tower of Babel, opening a donut shop because "everybody loves donuts", becoming a self-appointed cryptozoology expert, or beginning a writing career in the lucrative field of written erotica. The possibilities are endless, but only if she lets go of caring for her art from times past.
An American in Venice: James McNeill Whistler and His Legacy Thirty-five prints by the artist and his followers

March 1 - June 27, 2021
Featuring 35 prints of James McNeill Whistler and his contemporaries, this exhibition highlights the role of the artist as illustrator of sights unseen. Whistler sought to capture a “Venice of the Venetians,” and he braved the cold, damp winter of 1879 to explore the city in search of new subjects that would set his art apart from the view paintings that had defined Venetian cityscapes up to that point. His prints depict palazzo entries, private courtyards and sweeping views over the canal where Venice’s most famous monuments appear rarely and in the background. His career-long interest in the effects of light and water were enhanced by the technical innovations that he developed in this period and these, along with his novel subject matters, created a vision of Venice that was unprecedented in its originality.