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12.11.2009
December 4, 2009- January 16th, 2010 PROJECTED CURIOSITY Click here to see photos of the opening reception. After five years at 340 N. Senate Ave. on the west side of Downtown, iMOCA has moved to a newly renovated 2,000-square foot space on the main floor of the Murphy Art Center which has been dubbed the [...]
Tags: abstract graffiti artabstract graffiti art, body-image, contemporary artmakers, Sasquatch, self perception, self-portraits, UFOs
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10.11.2009
November 8 – January 10, 2008 Hansel and Gretel: Never Eat a House In the fairytale, a hungry Hansel and Gretel are lured to the witch’s house in hopes of a meal. By contrast, Hansel and Gretel: Never Eat a House from the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA) is a feast of irreverent, thought-provoking [...]
Tags: contemporary, fairytale, graphic design, minimalism, performance art, public installation, Video
Posted in Drawing, Environmental, Exhibition, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Portfolio, Sculpture | 1 Comment »
10.11.2009
November 9, 2007 New Work by Jeff Gabel Gabel specializes in scribbly, small-scale pencil drawings of people or faces, possibly imaginary, with a line of text explaining who they are or what they were thinking at the time they were observed. Gabel’s empathetic exploration of the contemporary American landscape finds moments in the everyday that [...]
Tags: local artists, pencil drawings, video installation
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10.11.2009
November 4 – December 30, 2006 Home: Living with Contemporary Art The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present Home: Living with Contemporary Art. In conjunction with the iMOCA 101 series of panel discussions on collecting contemporary art, and with the support of Helmut Fortense and Form + Function, iMOCA will transform its gallery space [...]
Tags: Brian Presnell, car culture, handmade artworks, interior and exterior, Loretta Lux, photojournalistic, provocative
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10.11.2009
November 12 – January 21, 2006 Designs by Ron Arad The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to announce an exhibition of designs by Ron Arad. Arad is one of todays most creative and versatile furniture artists and designers of our time. Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, architect and designer Ron Arad studied at [...]
Tags: escapism, furniture, pasels, portraits, rural America, spaces, video project
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10.11.2009
November 12 -November 13, 2004 When Contemporary Art Speaks Artists have been fascinated with words as images since ancient times, but particularly in the 20th century. When Contemporary Art Speaks takes this literal visual language (words and letter forms as subject matter) a step further. Some are witty. Some require a bit of thought. Most [...]
Tags: contemporary landscape, cultural landscape, elements, language
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10.11.2009
August 22, 2003 through August 28th, 2003 CREMASTER CYCLE For the first time in Indiana, Matthew Barney presents the Cremaster cycle in its entirety. Matthew Barney (born in 1967) launched the cycle in 1994, with the film Cremaster 4 which was followed by Cremasters 1, 5, and 2. This particularly ambitious project, which the artist [...]
Tags: Cremaster, Film, Matthew Barney
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