INDIANAPOLIS — The Harrison Center for the Arts’ first IDADA First Friday event of 2014 celebrates the new year with the aptly titled, NEW! In the Harrison Gallery, there will be new drawings and paintings by Herron School of Art + Design visiting lecturer, David Hicks. The Gallery Annex will feature work by Hicks’ students Josh Haines, Andry Sichuga, Marietta Miller, Amy Applegate, Naomi Carr and Ryan Richmond.
Photographer, editor and creative director of Pattern Magazine, Polina Osherov brings her series, Beyond the Beard, to Gallery No. 2. Osherov set out to create a series of photographs of bearded men, but surprised the subjects at their shoots by asking to photograph the contents of their wallets as well.
The City Gallery, which features place-based art, presents Chapter XVI, Becoming a City, new work by Justin Vining. The attorney-turned-artist says he drew much of his inspiration for this show from a history of Indianapolis book published in 1910 from which the title was taken.
HCA artist Chad Campbell has a new body of mixed media work, Trash, Tools and Delusions of Grandeur in Hank & Dolly’s Gallery.
In the Gym – Start the Car, the Brooklyn, NYC based multimedia storytelling series, brings their first show to Indianapolis. The theme is Comebacks. Start the Car is a rotating lineup of local storytellers that offer non-fiction and fictionalized stories based around a loose theme. Artists are encouraged to use sound, video, images, collaboration with other artists, and any other modes to creatively enhance the narrative. This will be the fourth installment of the series, and the first in Indianapolis. For more information about Start the Car and past events, visit. www.startthecar.org.
The Harrison Center is at 1505 N. Delaware.
