Photographic Exhibits Open at Herron, Includes Artist’s Lecture

Craig Ryan Photographs

INDIANAPOLIS – Herron School of Art and Design will open two photographic exhibits on Friday, Oct. 27. Opening night festivities include a reception, and artist slide lecture.

Herron’s Eleanor Prest Reese and Robert B. Berkshire Galleries will present “Technology of Meaning,” an exhibit which examines the work of five contemporary artists – Ruth Adams, Frank Burton, Alison Carey, Tarrah Krajnak and T.A. Trombley.

In the work exhibited, each of the artists uses photographic technologies like wet plates, Polaroid, modified televisions, or video in order to both transmit and construct their ideas and beliefs about the world we inhabit.

In addition, the Basile Gallery opens with “Craig Ryan Photographs.” A local artist and educator, Ryan’s latest body of work records roadside memorials placed at accident sites along the highways of Indiana. Using a simple “pinhole” camera, these photographs capture both the sorrow and the dignity of these personal shrines.

Both exhibits open Oct. 27 with a public reception from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Grand Hall of Herron School of Art and Design on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 735 West New York St. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Ruth Adams, one of the artists showing in “Technology of Meaning,” will present a slide lecture at 6 p.m. in the Basile Auditorium. The lecture is also free and open to the public.

Both exhibitions will remain open through Sunday, Nov. 26. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays.

Free parking on opening night in Herron’s surface lot is courtesy of The Great Frame Up. “Technology of Meaning” is sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Arts Council of Indianapolis and City of Indianapolis, as well as The Great Frame Up.

For additional information, please contact the Herron Galleries at 317-278-9419.