Aurora PhotoCenter has hosted the following exhibitions in pursuit of our mission.
2024
Black Alchemy: Resolve (Attempt #2)
Aaron Turner’s ongoing project Black Alchemy 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. Learn more . . .
Again, Again
In June 2023, Ian Lewandowski spent two weeks photographing in Indianapolis for an Aurora PhotoCenter Project Residency. Lewandowski focused on making large-format portraits of queer Hoosiers, in June during Indy Pride, in a continuation of his long-term work imaging queer Midwesterners. The exhibition Again, Again is a celebration of Indy Pride and Lewandowski’s incredibly productive residency. Learn more . . .
Encompass Self
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. Participating artists are Corrin Larson, Malaya Lee, Kate McAninch, Nasya McGee, Squid Stewart, Alexander Toms, and Connor Wright. Learn more . . .
Beholden
In Eli Craven’s work, images of faces and bodies, often sampled from far flung and anonymous archival photographs, are disrupted, reconnected, and layered in ambiguous ways, with the final result sometimes implying the tense passion of a first embrace. Learn more . . .
The Quarry Project
The beautifully printed images in Tsar Fedorsky’s The Quarry Project continue her 20-year research into black-and-white photography and its power to create abstraction from the reality recorded by the camera. Learn more . . .
2023
Sorry, No Pictures
Meggan Gould’s Sorry, No Pictures explores the artist’s relationship with the medium of photography, and specifically with its ever-evolving technology, over time. Learn more . . .
Fulcra
The 22 artists selected for the exhibition Fulcra: Transformational Moments in Photographic Practice responded to the question: What was one moment — a risk, chance discovery, meeting, experiment, or accident — that shifted your photographic practice in an important way? Learn more . . .
Those Left Behind
Justin A. Carney’s series Those Left Behind explores his family's grief and disconnection after the death of his grandmother, Michal Louise Carney. Learn more . . .
2022
Night Calls
A public projection exhibition of photographer Rebecca Norris Webb’s series Night Calls, an homage to Webb’s 100-plus-year-old father and to our Hoosier landscape. Learn more . . .
Aurora Pop-Up Gallery
20 Central-Indiana photographers showcase their work. Learn more . . .
A Southern Horror
Kris Graves photographed memorials, monuments, and sites of the antebellum South and the Confederacy during the summer of 2020. Learn more . . .
New Photography 2022
This exhibition explores topical subjects, themes, modalities, and methods that engaged Central Indiana photographers, highlighting work made after January 1, 2020. Learn more . . .
2020
A Tacit Inheritance
Rania Matar and Elizabeth M. Claffey explore themes of identity and memory within the broader experiences of women across generations and cultures. Learn more . . .
The Other Side of Boredom
For artist Adam Ekberg, moving past boredom means finding a space in which the mind is free to devise a logic of its own, and ordinary objects are liberated from the drudgery of daily life. Learn more . . .
2019
Respecting POTUS & National Trust
A two-person exhibition featuring the work of Jay Turner Frey Seawell and Andrew Miller. Learn more . . .
Is Everyday Extraordinary? A Photography Show
Aurora PhotoCenter, in partnership with Gallery 924, presents Is Everyday Extraordinary? A Photography Show, an exhibition that celebrates photography’s power to extract the extraordinary from everyday moments. Learn more . . .
Keliy Anderson-Staley, [hyphen] American
Anderson-Staley’s beautifully textured tintype portraits use 19th-Century technology to depict the wholeness of what “American” means in the 21st Century. Learn more . . .