The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present the exhibition Out of Easy Reach, guest-curated by Allison Glenn, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The exhibit contains over 40 works by twenty-four U.S. based, female- identifying contemporary artists from the Black and Latinx Diasporas. Working across a variety of media, these artists counter conventional accounts of abstraction in art history that have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color.

Friday, August 24ths events:

Lunch roundtable, Curating a New Canon, Participants: Allison Glenn, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Kellie Romany, Lorelei Stewart. 12:00-1:30pm, Fine Arts 015.

Public gallery tour with Curator Allison Glenn, 2-3pm, Grunwald Gallery.

Abstraction as a Strategy of Refusal, Part I:
The Circulation of Images, Participants: Edra Soto, Ayanah Moor, Malcolm Mobutu Smith, Vivian Halloran. Moderated by Faye Gleisser. 3:00-4:30pm, Fine Arts 102.

Abstraction as a Strategy of Refusal, Part II:
The Language of Abstraction, Participants: Steffani Jemison and Caroline Kent.
Moderated by Allison Glenn. 5:00-6:00pm, Fine Arts 015

This project was partially supported by the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program. Further assistance comes from the College Arts and Humanities Institute and the Robert E. and Avis Tarrant Burke Lecture Series in the Department of Art History. The exhibition and symposium are also supported by the Cultural Studies Program at Indiana University. The Grunwald Gallery would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information contact:

Betsy Stirratt
(812) 855-8490
[email protected]