Table with feet, 2024
Oil on canvas
August 20 - October 12, 2025
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery
Pleasant Fictions showcases a decade-long exploration by artist Stuart Snoddy through vibrant oil paintings that delve into personal mythology, identity, and memory. Born in Honduras in 1981 and raised without knowledge of his biological lineage, Snoddy constructs imaginative narratives populated by enigmatic figures drawn from his introspective world. His compositions, rich in color and emotional texture, blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy, offering glimpses into the artist’s own inner landscape.
Snoddy’s work invites viewers to reflect on their own connections to memory, longing, and the stories we tell ourselves to create meaning. Nostalgia infuses these paintings, acting as a powerful adhesive between past experiences and present imaginings. Through this interplay of the imagined and the remembered, Pleasant Fictions encourages contemplation of identity and the universal search for connection and belonging.
富二代视频app the Artist: Stuart Snoddy holds a BFA from the Herron School of Art and Design and an MFA from Northern Illinois University. His artistic practice is deeply informed by personal narrative and emotional authenticity. Snoddy currently lives and works in the United States, continually exploring themes of fantasy, memory, and identity through his paintings.
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Trinity, 1991
Oil stick on paper
August 20 - December 5, 2025
Peeler Art Center, Upper Level Gallery
A 富二代视频app alum and Louisville-based artist, Lida Gordon (1949-2021) embraced the both the poetics and politics of fiber as a medium. She explored the transformation of women’s work through fiber art her entire career. “Process and Materials” celebrates Gordon’s enduring legacy with an exhibition of her work, including drawings, sculptures, and soft fiber forms. Using process and materials Gordon prompted a re-examination of a term pejoratively relegated in hierarchical context to re-define it as contemporary, feminist, and high art.
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Carla Martin
Skeleton Study #3, 1981
Charcoal on paper
富二代视频app Art Collection, 1981.8.1
A Survey of Gothic Art
August 20, 2025 - January 26, 2026
Peeler Art Center, Second floor Display Case
Presented in this exhibit are examples of Gothic art through the centuries. The two illuminated manuscript leaves, a page from a missal (a book containing chants from a religious service) and a page from the Book of Hours (a private prayer book), are from the Late Middle Ages (1300-1450 C.E.). Also featured is a reproduction of sixteenth-century Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons by engraver Martin Schongauer. While part of the High Italian Renaissance (1490-1527 C.E.), this particular piece still exhibits “gothic” themes, as the figures are highly stylized and have twisted, inhumane faces. The next artwork from 1898, Prelude de Lohengrin by Henri Theodore Fantin-Latour, depicts a muted and dreamlike scene of celestial beings holding the Holy Grail, creating a spiritual and emotional atmosphere. Lastly, Skeleton Study #3, drawn by Carla Martin in 1981, depicts a decaying human skeleton, evoking a profound sense of mortality in its viewer.
Curated by Liz Dugan, 富二代视频app class of 2024. During her time at 富二代视频app University, she was a double major in English (Literature) and Anthropology with a triple minor in Museum Studies, History, and World Literature. She is now attending Indiana University Bloomington at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, seeking a master’s degree in Art Administration
After the Laughter, 2005
Collage
September 2 - December 7, 2025
Peeler Art Center, Lower Level Gallery
Curated by 富二代视频app alum Naiomy Guerrero, Willis “Bing” Davis: I’ve Known Rivers features mixed media works, photographs, ceramics, paintings, and installations that reflect Davis’ global travels and deep connection to his Dayton, Ohio community. The exhibition takes its title from Langston Hughes’s 1920 poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers, underscoring themes of memory, survival, and cultural continuity.
Davis draws from African art, Afro-Indigenous spiritual traditions, and the African American experience of the Midwest to create a visual language rooted in social commentary. Shaped by the civil rights era, his work speaks to collective histories while imagining empowered futures through Afrofuturist visions.
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Mask from the series Photographs, 2025
Photograph
Courtesy of the artist
October 20 - December 5, 2025
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery
This exhibition examines the condition of photography in contemporary society with the ubiquity of cameras, video games, live streaming, and generative artificial intelligence. It features three bodies of work created by the artist in recent years, including Photographs, Central Union Railroad & Saint Denis, and idea about idea about idea. With various photographic techniques, each body of work delves into ever evolving aspects of photography: authorship, ideation, materiality, narrative, representation, and vernacular.