Exhibitions

ÆNIGMATA

September 9 – November 12 
Basile Gallery

Closing reception: November 12, 5-8pm 

Marking the United States’ 250th anniversary, Winship expands on the mythology embedded in the country’s visual lexicon, critiquing the hubris of its founders while reimagining alchemical iconography as symbols of transformation and renewal. 

Caught Between the Tongue and the Taste 

Berkshire, Reese, and Paul galleries
August 29 – October 17, 2026

Caught Between the Tongue and the Taste explores wonder as the fleeting interval between perception and explanation, the moment before experience settles into recognition, and the familiar becomes newly visible.

In her first solo exhibition at the Herron Galleries, Indianapolis artist Stephanie Barlow gathers discarded and foraged materials from neighborhood walks and jobsites, affording bread ties, ratchet straps, grasses, acorn caps, handmade inks, and other overlooked materials the same generosity of observation.

The works do not rescue these materials by transforming them into something else. Instead, they invite us to reconsider the habits through which we have learned to see them. Through slow acts of collecting, walking, braiding, weaving, knotting, and making, Barlow creates sculptures, drawings, and installations that preserve traces of sustained attention rather than fixed narratives.

Connecting human labor with ecological processes, the exhibition invites viewers to inhabit a slower way of seeing, one in which wonder is found not in extraordinary things, but in ordinary things encountered with extraordinary attention 

This exhibition marks the first project in an ongoing collaboration between Herron Galleries and Companion Gallery. Rooted in a shared commitment to artist-centered practice, research, and public engagement, the collaboration brings together Herron's role as a university exhibition space with Companion's model of stewardship through exhibitions, publications, and community building. 

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Sunlight on the Sea Floor

Location / Room - Berkshire, Reese, and Paul galleries
Dates and Times - July 15 - October 31

Sunlight on the Sea Floor considers shared experiences of militarization, migration, and displacement through the work of twelve international artists, arguing for the importance of art and archives within urgent work on the global legacies of colonialism.    

The exhibition centers on the paintings of Clément Siatous, which memorializes the struggle and triumphs on the Chagosian people. In the early 1970s, the entire population of the Chagos Islands, a British colony located in the Indian Ocean, were forcibly evicted by the United Kingdom Government to make way for a U.S. naval base. In exhaustive detail, Siatous illustrates a chronicle of life on the islands, remembered and imagined, before and after eviction. His practice reveals a counter narrative to military record, articulating the importance of radical imagination and archiving in the creation of collective memory.  

While Siatous’s practice anchors the exhibition in the Chagos Islands, it also models an archiving process that is shared with other artists in Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Mauritius, Panamá, Puerto Rico, as well as their diasporas in the U.S. and the UK. Together , their work explores the shared historical experiences of colonialism, surveillance, and military interventions on displaced communities.

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