When: - Friday November 13th
Where: Indianapolis Art Center
Phone: (317) 255-2464
Website: http://www.IndplsArtCenter.org
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This selection from the more than 900 works that adorn the walls of IPS schools is something of a throwback to the kind of art exhibit you might have regularly seen in Indy 50 years ago. The most interesting works in this show—which includes portraits in oil, impressionistic Brown County landscapes, and pencil sketches of the Arsenal Technical High School campus—are the works that show how much the Hoosier state has changed, for both good and ill, in the last century. In Floyd Hopper’s “Making Sorghum” (oil on canvas) you see a farmer applying horse-drawn power to accomplish her task. This painting illustrates a way of life long eclipsed by mechanized farming processes while Harry Davis’ oil on canvas “Indiana Theater” depicts said building, now occupied by the Indiana Repertory Theater, as it appeared before its renovation. In composing this canvas, Davis captured the dilapidated state of Indy’s downtown in the early seventies. Through Nov. 12; 317-255-2464, www.IndplsArtCenter.org.- Dan Grossman

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