Please stop by for July First Friday at Aurora to see the exhibition Black Alchemy: Resolve (Attempt #2) in the Main Gallery and Again, Again in the Efroymson Gallery. In Black Alchemy, Aaron Turner re-presents cultural and familial images, exploring them as both subject matter and material. Using the studio as a space for construction, Turner employs cut paper, projected and natural light, black cloth, mirrors, paint, oil sticks, cellophane, and packaging materials for analog photography as building blocks for his images. Personal and cultural histories intertwine, as the artist also explores issues of representation in photography.

In June 2023, artist Ian Lewandowski spent two weeks photographing in Indianapolis for an Aurora Project Residency. Lewandowski focused on making large-format portraits of queer Hoosiers during Indy Pride, and the exhibition Again, Again is a celebration of Indy Pride and Lewandowski’s incredibly productive residency. In these oftentimes exuberant images, the artist brilliantly shows the power of photography to reflect who we are to ourselves and to our community.