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05.01.2012
February 3- March 17 Opening reception February 3, 6-11 p.m. This exhibition takes on sports and masculinity as its central themes in a collection put together especially for iMOCA by Christopher Bedford, chief curator of the Wexner Center for the Arts. Images of women—from the goddess Venus to the Virgin Mary—have long been a classic [...]
Tags: art indianapolis, athleticism, Cary Leibowitz, Catherine Opie, Christopher Bedford, fountain square super bowl, fountain square superbowl, Hank Willis Thomas, Joe Sola, Jonas Wood, male athletes, Mark Bradford, masculinity, museums indianapolis, must see indianapolis, Paul Pfeiffer, sports, Super Bowl, super bowl art, super bowl indianapolis, super bowl museum, superbowl, superbowl art, superbowl museum, things to do in Indianapolis, Wexner Center for the Arts
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16.11.2011
December 2, 2011-January 14, 2012 Click here to see images from the opening reception iMOCA will host the exhibition, Fast Forward featuring the current work of past Efroymson Contemporary Arts fellows: Linda Adele Goodine, Emily Kennerk, Arthur Liou, Anthony Luensman, Brose Partington, Jamie Pawlus, Melissa Pokorny, Jennifer Reeder, Tyson Skross, and Tom Torluemke. It was [...]
Tags: Anthony Luensman, Arthur Liou, Brose Partington, Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Emily Kennerk, Fast Forward, Jamie Pawlus, Jennifer Reeder, Linda Adele Goodine, Melissa Porkorny, Tom Torluemke., Tyson Skross
Posted in Drawing, Exhibition, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Portfolio | 1 Comment »
27.10.2011
November 4, 2011 – December 10, 2011 Click here to see images from John Waters appearance and exhibit. Part of the Spirit & Place Festival Made possible through a partnership of Big Car and iMOCA. Shauta Marsh, curator of “Bodies of Waters” asked 17 artists to create original works inspired by the films of John [...]
Tags: A Dirty Shame, Amy Casey, angie mason, art opening, Aunia Kahn, big car, Casey Roberts, Cecil B. Demented, Cry-Baby, Danielle de Picciotto, Desperate Living, Elizabeth McGrath, filmmaker, Floyd Jaquay, Glenn Barr, illustrators, indianapolis, Jacqueline Pichardo, John Waters, ken garduno, Kristen Ferrell, Lisa Petrucci, local, lowbrow art, Mab Graves, Madame Walker, Madame Walker theater, Paul Chatem, Philip Campbell, Pink Flamingos, Polyester, pop art, Rikki Lake, Shaunna Peterson, shauta marsh, spirit and place festival, spirt and place, surrealist, things to do in Indianapolis, traci lords, Yumiko Kayukwaw
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10.05.2011
June 3-July 16 Click here to see pictures from the opening night of My Son The Future Time Traveler. Cincinnati based artist Ryan Mulligan’s work has always revolved around magical thinking. His show My Son The Future Time Traveler opening at iMOCA June 3rd is no exception. A 30 foot wall mural and “TV drawings” [...]
Tags: art museum indianapolis, art museums, art museums indianapolis, downtown indianapolis, fountain square, indianapolis museum of art, ryan mulligan, things to do in Indianapolis, time travel
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02.01.2010
October 1 – November 20, 2010 NEIGHBORHOOD Click here to see photos from the opening reception. Neighborhood brought together 6 Los Angeles-based artists who looked at the developed environment as a subject matter of investigation. In this group exhibition, the title “neighborhood” is used loosely, as it refers either to a specific place (sometimes the [...]
Tags: alia malley, angie mason, art center college of design, christopher umana, collectors, devon tsuno, downtown, downtown indianapolis, fall out boy, folk pop, fountain square, frank warren, ginger gaylord, illustration, imoca, indianapolis, indianapolis art, indianapolis art museum, indianapolis art museums, indianapolis museum, indianapolis museum of art, indianapolis museums, indianapolis neighborhood, Jennifer Celio, Jennifer lanski, ken garduno, la weekly, lowbrow, lowbrow art, mt. comfort, nikko mueller, parsons school of design, pop culture, pop surrealism, postcard, postsecret, Sam Lee, shauta marsh, shelby roberts, things to do in Indianapolis, village voice
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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
Posted in Education, Exhibition, Film, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Portfolio, Video | 1 Comment »
