The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art will present “Forms of ID,†an exhibition of work by five artists: Gray Lyons, Morgan Ford, Ben Duke, Steven Labadesa, and Christopher Olszewski, February 18 through March 17. A free, public reception will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 10.
In the exhibition, artists work in multiple disciplines and explore the construction of identity, perceptions of beauty, the relationship between text and image, and the intersection of art and culture. The work examines body image, identity on societal and individual levels, and the ways in which identity develops in our youth.
Lyons, of South Bend, Indiana, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design and Master of Fine Arts degree from Towson University. Lyons is an associate faculty member of photography at Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at Indiana University-South Bend.
South Carolina native Ford received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of South Carolina and Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University. She resides in Vincennes, Indiana, where she is the director of the Shircliff Gallery of Art at Vincennes University.
Louisville, Kentucky, native Duke received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from the University of Utah. He currently teaches at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan.
Labadessa, of Joplin, Missouri, received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an assistant professor of drawing and painting at Missouri Southern State University.
Savannah, Georgia artist Olszewski received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Kentucky. Olszewski is a professor of Foundation Studies at the School of Foundation Studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is located at 506 Main Street in New Harmony, IN and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For more information, call 812/682-3156 or visit www.nhgallery.com.
