Spring Exhibition Series
Art Center galleries connect the community with artwork of local, regional, and national artists.
Rotating exhibitions fill our six galleries and are always free and open to the public.
Find yourself here, at Indy Art Center, where it’s always Everybody’s Art!
Indy Art Center Exhibitions presented by
SPLAT! Contemporary Painting Show
The artworks in this exhibition are all grounded in the traditional materials and processes of painting but the artists in SPLAT! challenge those expectations, asserting that painting and its principals have domain in sculpture, ceramics, photography, digital media and far beyond. These artworks contain echoes of painting’s historical function but also present a mirror, reflecting the year of 2026 in America; complete with the uncertainty, fragmentation, and existential chaos.The artists included in SPLAT! demonstrate that, through the act of painting, something miraculous occurs.
Image Credit: Wade Johnston
Boundary Shifts
Audrey Barcio combines feminist symbology with sacred geometry to impart structures of strength and power. Descendent and ascendent triangle forms—communicating feminine and masculine strength and power—repeat throughout her compositions. Combined, they infer clarity and unity. To Barcio, the phrase Boundary Shifts can refer to something obvious, like evolving structural or geographical limitations, or being more nuanced, like gestalt shifts, when something changes for someone because they change how they look at it.
Image: Power Exchange, Audrey Barcio
Blood Washing
One of the art projects that I created after leaving Iraq was Blood Washing. It is an art installation that addresses the power dynamic of genders in my patriarchal society and honor killing practices in northern Iraq. This project relates to my experience of facing the risk of losing my life in honor killing tradition. “Blood Washing” is an installation of a dark room with light boxes illuminating the shapes of deformed uteruses.
Image: Blood Washing, Huner Emin
Woven Into the Fabric
Is it possible to look beyond the obvious? How do we get past the rhetoric to reflect on humanity?
Woven Into the Fabric is an art exhibition exploring how people go from being strangers to becoming neighbors. What people, groups, or cultures have come to this country in the past as unknown and now are fully part of the social fabric? This exhibition looks at the history of immigration in Indiana and considers the cultural beauty and life experience of those who are still coming here today. We invite you to come and explore art from Haitian, Afghani, Venezuelan, and Pakistani artists. You will learn how our society becomes more colorful and stronger as we continue to welcome and integrate until all of us are woven into the fabric.
This exhibition features selected excerpts from Indianapolis: A City of Immigrants by M. Teresa Baer, courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society.
Featuring work by: Maria Dar, Armin Jamal, Mary Mindiola and Johnson Simon.
Image Credit: Maria Dar
Noteworthy Natives: A Celebration of Botany, Art and Music
Learn about 16 of the most lovely and evocative wildflowers in Indiana through music, mounted specimens from the Freisner Herbarium and artwork from Butler students, staff, alumna and members of Studio 3 Art Ministry at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. This exhibit highlights the importance of native plants to the environmental health and sustainability of our community.
Image: Goldenrod, Karen Campbell