I Think I Made You Up Inside My Head features the directorial, constructed photographs of Alison A. Smith and Tracy Longley-Cook. (image: Tracy Longley-Cook)

Flood and Pull, a two-person exhibition of Jay Ryan and Ryan Stander, two artists using printmaking technique in their contemporary practice.

Ebb and Flow is a two-person collaborative exhibition by painter/photographer Betsy Stirratt, and printmaker Tracy Templeton. The artists have explored sites in Indiana for the last several years, searching for and documenting little known places where water is central to the landscape and culture.

Michael K. Paxton, Pillars of Dust #6

Michael K. Paxton plumbs his Appalachian roots, taking images of coalminers’ black lungs and creating epic paintings which are at once seductive abstraction and dark reminders of a people underrepresented in contemporary art.

Bone Deep gallery

Like Panes of Glass explores the memorial construct of the modern family as an ideal and a reality. Having grown up in the Midwest during the 1970s and 1980s in a family of five, I experienced “The American Dream” in all its idyllic glory. Loving, kind, supportive parents, a sister and a brother, a dog and multitudes of hamsters, really, who could ask for more? Over the years I have watched my perfect family and the perfect families of my friends crack and fade into the dysfunctional state of the contemporary American family. How did this happen to us?

Watch Libby Rowe’s artist talk here

Four artists working in photographic materials in non-traditional ways come together for this unique exhibition.

Derrick Burbul takes images acquired through his travels and overlays them with fine layers of text which adds an abstract texture.

Morgan Ford Willingham explores motherhood in poetic images, printed on found vintage textiles using a 150 year old process.

David Ondrik exposes black and white prints, then deliberately misprocesses them, to build door-sized abstract collages.

Heather Stratton prints astronomic imagery on black and white paper and then exposes the paper with flash to imprint ripples of chemistry.

Closing reception and artists’ talk: Friday, February 4, 4pm

Online Gallery

“That's great, it starts with an earthquake, Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes. And Lenny Bruce is not afraid,” explores the end of the world as I know it. The last year has been marked globally by the pandemic, climate crisis, and a national reckoning with home-grown fascism. Personally, in the last year I underwent a series of invasive medical procedures culminating in doctors freezing and stopping my heart, and leaving my chest full of metal. The works in this show respond to the technologies that have played a role in these various conflicts and crisis, giving clues to what the world will look like next.

• Nathan Neltz

THUR. NOV. 19. 7:00 PM EST - Artist/Educator Alex Emmons with selected artists will be speaking about a print exchange project dedicated to her mother’s life called For Rosalie: Eggcups and More. This is a celebratory portfolio of art prints created by 60+ artists in remembrance of her mother, Rosalie Emmons.

This collection of prints was created by 68 different artists touch on suggested themes connected to Rosalie’s life from Nature, Landscape, Birds, Human & Animal Migration, Farming & Sustainability, Craft & Feminist Traditions, Material culture (the way objects contain stories), and Loss & Remembering.

THUR. NOV. 19. 11:00 AM EST - Join the climate change conversation. Artist H. Jennings Sheffield shares her artistic research of Tangier Island. An island in the Chesapeake Bay, that is sinking. Tangier is not alone and sadly tells the tale many different low-lying cities in the US and around the world are facing in the next 80 years. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Miami, Florida; Atlantic City, New Jersey; New Orleans, Louisiana; Galveston, Texas; Charleston, South Carolina; and Virginia Beach, Virginia will all be under water by 2100. By photographing Tangier Island, I hope to inform viewers of the need to take notice now, and to think about the difficult decisions that stand before us—how will we decide who and what is worth saving? How will we choose who receives the funds necessary to survive, and who are we willing to let wash away into the water?

THUR. NOV. 12. 6:30 PM EST - Join the virtual discussion as the Shircliff Gallery presents the ongoing project by Artist/Educator Carlos Diaz, The Confederate Monuments in the American South. No single phenomenon has had more direct and impactful repercussions on the shaping of our countries historical and contemporary conditions, as that of race. As a person of color, there is no experience without that single piece of reality. In a general sense, this project, questions how race is intertwined with history, memory, place and how they manifest and reconcile within a contemporary American experience.

WED. NOV. 11. 2:00PM EST - Join us virtually in a conversation with Anders Johnson as he shares Afterimages, is latest project. “Afterimages” refers to painted worlds where there is no observable hierarchy of value – Hellenistic Sarcophagus lids sit adjacent to Yeti coolers and pontoon boats are covered with intricate mosaic tesserae. In response to his Ready-mades, Marcel Duchamp once suggested that a Rembrandt painting could be used as an ironing board. In the wake of the global pandemic, this series of paintings now suggest an “After times” where surrealism becomes the new normal.

THUR. NOV. 5. 10:00AM EST - Join us virtually at the Shircliff Gallery as contemporary artist Marian Lefeld talks about her experience of living between the U.S. and Venezuela.

For over twenty years I’ve been teetering between two cultures, two languages, two places. Art-making allows me to create a separate space where I do not need to mediate, to reconcile distinct identities; a place in which I can conceptualize and affirm a sense of self - a space in which I fully belong. My latest work challenges my binary experience while creating a new, personal sense of place by alternating translucent, and opaque geometric forms overlapping landscapes of my homeland.

Her work reflects the high density of the capital city, Caracas, which is an improvised place sitting over an intricate geographical valley.

WED. OCT.28 2:00 PM EST - Join us virtually in the Shircliff Gallery as Artist/Educator Libby Rowe presents her experience driven performance art project Pink. The most recent work included in Pink stems from my experience of regularly being addressed as “Sir” since moving to the South. I have always been a tall woman with short hair, a relatively low voice, and a confident presence. This constant questioning of femininity lead her to explore the standards of femaleness and the gendered indoctrination systems in place during her childhood.

THUR. OCT. 15 10:00AM EST - Artist Evita Tezeno shares her colorful collages with a cubism influence in a live studio tour. Her bold use of color, texture, and shapes is at the core of her work. Inspired by her personal experiences and images from her childhood, Evita translates these memories through mixed media by combining handmade papers, acrylic paints, and found objects.

WED. OCT. 7. 2:30 PM EST - Join us virtually in the Shircliff Gallery as designer and photographer Nitashia Johnson shares her creative path from student to first-round Sony Alpha Female Creator-in-residence. With an unwavering passion for design and photography she is an alumnus of the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in Art & Design Education program at the Rhode Island School of Design. Johnson is currently developing a community-based media arts program for highly creative school teens. She uses her talents to make others happy, and to promote positive images of people of color.

PAST - Join us virtually at the Shircliff Gallery as Transdisciplinary artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen talks about the Boat Journey series. Nguyen shares her feelings of dual tensions of the impossibility of full assimilation in a new land and the difficulty of returning and reintegrating in one’s own culture. in her onging photographic project Boat Journey. The project focuses on a quest for a place where we, immigrants, seek to belong. Captured by prairies and coasts, a figure dressed in traditional Vietnamese tunic and pant, áo dài, holds onto a small makeshift leather boat. This boat is the ticket, the passport to the escapades. However, it gets stuck on the land, can never be set free.

PAST - Join us virtually as Benjamin Timpson walks us through the history of his creative process. Timpson combines is love for biology, art and activism through the complex creation of detailed portraits. He also introduces us to Oscar, his hand built 16"x20" View camera and explains the process of making 16"x20" paper negatives. Viewers use their smartphones to decode the negatives turning them into positives on their own devices.

ONLINE NOW - Artist and educator Michael Darough introduces his award winning project,The Talk (2018-Present) via on-line video. These images were created in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement.  The faceless men represent individuals affected by this systemic issue.  Those void of the figure symbolize the stories that struggle to be told; they ones that do not receive news coverage.