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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 [...]
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06.07.2011
August 5, 2011 – September 17, 2011 Click here to see images from the opening. Brian James Priest’s exhibit Animalcules centers on human beings as both collectors and collections, the exhibit will feature large-scale prints, sound and floor installations, and live performance art. Priest’s exhibition takes its name from Anton van Leeuwenhoek, inventor of the [...]
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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
Posted in Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting, Portfolio, Sculpture, Uncategorized | No Comments »
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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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
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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 -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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