Encompass Self
A Group Exhibition
May 3 - May 15, 2024
Opening Reception: May 3, 6pm-9pm
Aurora PhotoCenter Main and Efroymson Galleries
Free and open to the public
The exhibition Encompass Self presents the work of seven emerging Indianapolis artists as they prepare to enter the world of art making outside of the academic studio. At such a profound time, it seems fitting that these artists grapple with some fundamental questions in Encompass Self:
• How does our relationship to the world connect us to our spiritual selves?
• What is the weight of the death of a loved one?
• Do our fantasies about love create our reality of it?
• How does a hidden past create us and what can be created from it?
• How does childhood nostalgia shape us?
• In what ways can traveling change our lives?
• How do we remember those lost?
• What secrets lie in the deepest parts of our hearts?
Encompass Self explores these questions and themes through photography and a range of mediums and processes. The artists ask us to ponder our own relationship to our identity through questioning their own. Through their work, the eight participating artists, including Corrin Larson, Malaya Lee, Kate McAninch, Nasya McGee, Squid Stewart, Alexander Toms, and Connor Wright, share a key part of being an artist — that the questions we ask are oftentimes more important than the answers.
This exhibition presents the culmination of artwork from the 2024 BFA Photography Seniors from the Herron School of Art & Design at IU Indianapolis, a four-year program with an interdisciplinary approach led by teaching artists Stefan Petranek, Justin Carney, and Benjamin Martinkus.
Annual operating support for Aurora PhotoCenter provided by the City of Indianapolis through the Indy Arts Council. Additional support provided by the Efroymson Family Fund.