INDIANAPOLIS — During First Friday at the Harrison Center May 3, it’s all about paying homage – to artists and particular artist’s distinctive styles, to our neighborhoods, to our homes and more. Two of the Harrison’s own studio artists, Candice Hartsough McDonald and Emily Gable will be featured. McDonald, an illustrator known for her brand, Cordial Kitten teams up with Emily Gable, who studied painting at Herron School of Art + Design and is part of the artist collective, Know No Stranger.
In the City Gallery, HCA artist Emma Overman’s new body of work, A Stroll Around the Block, was inspired by her Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood and the sometimes surprising discoveries made while strolling the streets close to her home. Overman has illustrated several children’s books and her work has been published in Edgycute: from Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back Again, by Harry Saylor.
Gallery No. 2 features work by Herron School of Art + Design undergraduate printmaker, Christian Brock Forrer. In this show, Life Long Dreams, Forrer explores “the thoughts and emotions behind lost love and longing.” Also from Herron School of Art + Design, the Gallery Annex features Vessels – work by Bethany Knuckles, Emily Schorn and Katherine Thayer. In Hank & Dolly’s Gallery is HCA studio artist Bobby Gilbreath’s No Place Like Home.
Artists William Denton Ray and Quincy Owens have collaborated to curate their third themed group show in the Underground. For Homage, local artists have created work inspired by another artist.
