September 2 – October 24

Stacey M. Holloway, detail (Crop Circle) mixed media

Stacey Holloway’s new work, ‘Somewhere in Between’ uses mixed-media installation pieces to communicate an emotion of discomfort within her everyday adult life. This emotion suggests isolation amid two worlds: the real and the surreal.

At first glance her work can appear playful, but upon examination her use of the surreal creates a nightmarish fantasy that illustrates her fears and anxiety about her lost sense of childhood and the trepidations of growing older.

Stacey M. Holloway was born in South Bend, Indiana and has recently completed her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus with an emphasis in sculpture. Within the program, she received a Graduate School Fellowship, the Katherine E. Nash Studio Art Scholarship, and the Pioneer Scholarship to support her studies. Additionally, Holloway also received a Graduate Research Partnership Fellowship with Professor Wayne E. Potratz to complete Inter-Connections in Art Through Metalcasting, a collaborative project between the Interact Center and the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art foundry.

Currently, Stacey M. Holloway resides and remains an active artist in Indianapolis, Indiana. Here, she is employed by Herron School of Art and Design as their Sculpture Technician, Metal Casting Instructor, and 3D Design Instructor. Holloway also acts as the co-founder, curator, and organizer of Bootleg Exhibitions, a new gorilla exhibition space that has just begun exhibiting emerging artists throughout the Midwest in Indianapolis.

For more info, see http://staceyholloway.com/

Stacey M. Holloway, Sheep Shelf, mixed media

Stacey M. Holloway, Sheep Shelf (detail), mixed media

September 2 – October 24

Laura Shindollar, Joliet Prison, silver gelatin photograph

Laura Shindollar’s series, ‘I Love the Romance of Crime’, is about her fascination with old prisons and criminals in general. She uses a low-resolution plastic camera to photograph well-known prisons which are now being used as tourist destinations or movie sets. The empty places she photographs have sobering and tragic histories, yet their architectural style often resemble romantic castles or fortresses.

“Along this way, outside the prison gates, I love the romance of crime.”, from “Sister, I’m a Poet” by Morrissey.

Laura lives in South Bend, Indiana, and received a BFA in Photography from Memphis College of Art in 1998. She uses both traditional and low-tech cameras in her photographic work. She has exhibited nationally, and has worked as a Teaching Assistant at the South Bend Museum of Art.

Laura Shindollar, Alcatraz, silver gelatin photograph

Laura Shindollar, silver gelatin photograph

November 4 – December 19

Dr. Funlaw, "HANDsome", marker on paper

Doni Funkhouser and Ryan Lawrence are an art duo working under the pseudonym of Dr. Funlaw. Their signature is a mashup of their abbreviated names (D.Fun and R.Law.) They work collaboratively to create highly saturated, brightly colored marker-based artwork at their home studio in downtown Elkhart IN.

Dr. Funlaw’s “stream of consciousness” approach to art uses repeating patterns, extreme detail, and fantastic subject matter — they are known to suggest the use of 3D Chromadepth glasses to best view their work.

Dr. Funlaw’s pieces have been exhibited at a variety of local venues, and they recently participated in a sticker show, “Stick Me Hard”, at the Musma Gallery in Brussels.

Dr. Funlaw, "KAbloom", marker on paper

November 4 – December 19

Jason Rowland, 'Laundry Day', spray paint/stencil on press plate

Jason Rowland is a self-taught stencil artist living in Winona Lake, IN. He first experimented with stenciled skateboard decks and now paints on whatever he can find — wood, metal, and canvas. His subjects vary from popular pop icons to 1960′s political figures to anonymous people that he finds interesting and compelling.

For the ‘Press Plate Show’, he painted on metal press plates that he salvaged from the Warsaw Times-Union. The ink-smeared backgrounds are covered with random news stories which create an intriguing subtext to his iconic images.

Jason has just started to exhibit his work and has shown in Winona Lake, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis at the contemporary art and music event Oranje and the Murphy Art Center. His work will be featured in Kikked! Magazine in November 2010.

Read more about Jason’s work in this Warsaw Times-Union story, or visit him on Facebook.

Jason Rowland, "Unknown Man #1", spray paint/stencil on press plate

July 1- August 29

Maria Winston will be exhibiting a new series of paper-maché and ceramic wall reliefs concerning her experience dealing with cancer. Partly autobiographical, and partly inspired by other’s stories, these pieces reflect the profound feelings that one goes through when facing and recovering from this devastating disease.

Maria is a largely self-taught artist who, for over twenty years, has experimented with painted paper-maché and plaster to create large, highly expressive figurative 3-D reliefs. She was raised in Brownsville, Texas, and draws from Hispanic art and traditions, particularly ancient wall reliefs, for artistic inspiration. Her pieces have been exhibited in South Bend at Stanley Clark School’s Art for the Mind show, as well as the Colfax Cultural Center.

July 1- August 29

Rodolfo Zárate Guzmán will be showing a selection of paintings created in the surrealist tradition. His work often contains an ironic or humorous observation about our society, inspired from his personal experiences with life.

Rodolfo was born in 1945 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and has exhibited in the Michiana area for over 30 years. He apprenticed for Guillermo Chavez Vega on public murals in Guadalajara Mexico, and continued his studies at Indiana University/South Bend in the U.S. His work can be found at the Scarlett Macaw Gallery in Sawyer, Michigan.

May 6 – June 27

Avilla Flowing Well, Avilla, IN, 14 1/2" x 20" archival pigment print

Kay Westhues’s photographs are from her most recent project, titled “Well Stories”. In this work, she is photographing old wells and springs in the Midwest that have been used as public water sources. These photos explore the beauty, history and culture that has grown around these springs, many which have been flowing for decades. This work was partially funded through a 2010 Indiana Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission.

You can view the work in progress on Kay’s website, which includes video and photography, at www.wellstories.com.

Work from Kay’s previous project, “Fourteen Places to Eat: A Narrative”, will also be included in this exhibit. The “Fourteen Places” series will be shown at the Noyes Cultural Art Center, in Evanston IL, in July of this year, and was exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, and the Lodz Photofestiwal in Lodz, Poland in May 2009.

Chase St. Flowing Well, Gary, IN, 14 1/2" x 20" archival pigment print

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May 6 – June 27

"How to Catch a Hole II", 28" tall, red oak

Jake Webster’s new body of work is called “The Train I Ride”. The sculptures in this series were inspired by the writings and drawings Jake made while traveling on various trains across the county. They reflect his thoughts on growing old, his relationship with death, and his love of self and others.

Jake is a sculptor, mixed media artist and spoken word performer. His sculpture uses the tradition of direct carving, and employs a variety of materials, including wood, stone, and aerated cement. His sculptures are currently on exhibit at the South Bend Regional Airport and the University of Indianapolis, and can also be found in many private and public collections. His studio is located in Elkhart, Indiana.

For more information on Jake, visit his website: http://www.jakewebster.org

The Last Sound V, Georgia white marble

March 4 – April 25

Untitled, granola bar wrappers, chicken satay bamboo skewers, aluminum pop tops, red celophane "zips"

Opening reception Friday March 5th, from 5-9 pm, with desserts provided by Indulgence Pastry Shop & Cafe

David Ebbinghouse will be exhibiting a number of small sculptures utilizing materials that are usually discarded — food wrappers from Granola bars, plastic bags that contain corn chips, shiny colorful wrappers from chocolate bars, and plastic inner bags from boxes of cereal. These have been combined with aluminum pop tops, bamboo skewers from shish kabobs, and the sticks left over from burning incense to make three-dimensional structures. The forms, squares, grids and cubes, derive from minimal art, but the materials are the trash and detritus of our consumer society.  Using the structural possibilities of the materials, Ebbinghouse has given them a second life that allows them to be seen in a new way.

Another series of works called “gris-gris” uses the circle as the organizing principle. These take the form of beads strung on a cord.  The cord is braided from strips of plastic bags and the “beads’ are found objects, keys, small plastic toys, aluminum pop tops, and other bits and pieces culled from dumpsters. They have the look of post-apocalyptic amulets.

David Ebbinghouse was born in 1949 and has lived in Bloomington, Indiana since he graduated from Indiana University in 1971.  He has been active in the Bloomington arts community for many years and for almost a decade headed the Bellevue Gallery, an artist co-op.  He is well known for his performance art pieces and installations that are often combined in an exhibition opening in order to lead the audience into the world of his artistic vision.  Ebbinghouse experiments in many media and pursues concepts and materials he encounters rather than using a media driven approach, (such as only welding steel or only making oil paintings).

Ebbinghouse has traveled widely, especially in India and has collected ancient beads and conducted research on them.  He has published bead research and given lectures to various bead societies around the country. All this he considers to be a subset of his artistic practice, rather than a separate activity, as he seeks to integrate all of his experiences into his work.  This intention to create an art that is instrumental in living a life in modern times is the same impulse behind all of the world’s mythology throughout all time and history.  In this way Ebbinghouse seeks to create an art that transcends the boundaries of how we normally think about art.

Untitled, incense sticks, candy wrappers, corks

Detail, Untitled

David’s also created work as the graffiti artist “Tom Cat Spray” – below he is interviewed at his last exhibit at the Wandering Turtle Art Gallery, which featured his stencil pieces. If you spent any time in Bloomington in the 80′s and 90′s you may recognize some of his work…

March 4 – April 25

War Tool: Abduction

Opening reception Friday March 5th, from 5-9 pm, with desserts provided by Indulgence Pastry Shop & Cafe

Javaughn Renee’s installation, “The Chest: Tools of War and Peace,” originated from visions she had about the Iraq war. Ideas for much of the installation were inspired by a visit to a thrift store, where she observed an isle of florescent spaceships and water guns which looked like current military weapons.

Both war and peace tools are found in “The Chest,” and the subtle, often monochromatic works are informed by Quaker traditional aesthetics. She uses the idea of “simple speech,” as she builds silhouettes for concepts, beliefs and ideas that at times bring us to commit violence toward each other and sometimes bring us together.

Javaughn Renee lives in South Bend Indiana, but grew up in the culturally, economically, and geographically diverse area of Southern California. With limited funds and an ambivalence about the art world, she paints, draws and collects simple materials to create works that reveal the complexities of our humanity.

Javaughn’s first group shows were at The Unurban Café in Santa Monica, and El Mercado La Paloma in Los Angeles, and featured her colorful watercolors and oil pastels. After moving to South Bend, however, she continued an idea she began in a show at the Pasadena American Friends Service Committee in 2002. Her work, titled (), was her first piece in an installation about war. Although that work has since been destroyed, it inspired “The Chest: Tools of War and Peace.”

War Tool : Propaganda

Peace Tool : Community