Exhibits

Main Gallery

After Sargent

Artist Reception: Saturday, November 23, 2–4pm

South Shore Arts presents After Sargent, November 22, 2024–February 22, 2025 at the Center for Visual & Performing Arts.

This exhibit will explore how contemporary painters, draftspersons, and sculptors have carried on, challenged, furthered, and broken away from the tradition that John Singer Sargent unknowingly left with his approach to representation during the French period of Belle Epoque. Sargent’s methods and themes with oil painting not only struck a chord with the Edwardian elite at the turn of the century but have endured throughout the last century. Since his passing 100 years ago, artists have been inviting and creating new interpretations and perspectives to his wider legacy and methods, challenging what it means to paint, draw, or sculpt the human figure and beyond.

Featuring the work of several local and national artists who have either followed in the traditions that Sargent paved or have elected to deviate into new modalities of representational artwork. These works will offer viewers opportunity to reflect on how an artist’s legacy carries on and changes as they compare and contrast the effects their work has had amongst contemporary artists.

Atrium/Annex Gallery

Less Than Five: Holiday Small Works Invitational

November 22–30: Atrium Gallery
November 30–December 14: Annex Gallery

Artists Reception: Saturday, November 23, 2–4pm

South Shore Arts is delighted to host our first annual Less than Five invitational, a celebration of artistic diversity and price accessibility. Featuring over 40 recent works by regional artists, the exhibit emphasizes smaller scale pieces priced at $500 or less. This intersection of affordability and excellence forms the cornerstone of the exhibition, offering both first-time and experienced collectors a rare opportunity to acquire high-quality works at an accessible price point.

Substation No. 9

Samsara: Cycles of Nature

November 15–December 14, 2024
Artist Reception: November 15, 6–8pm

Substation No. 9, 435 Fayette Street, Hammond, IN. 

South Shore Arts is proud to present “Samsara: Cycles of Nature,” an exhibition of works by local artists Dawn Diamantopoulos, Carol Estes, and Lorena Salinas, in cooperation with the Diversified Arts Visionaries artist group at Substation No. 9, Hammond, IN.

Drawing upon the Buddhist concepts of cyclicality in all things and the Sanskrit meaning of samsara – “world” – these artists and their artworks weave together a tapestry of how each person views the world. Featuring over 20 recent works by Diamantopoulos, Estes, and Salinas, the exhibit includes a variety of paintings, photography, and printmaking. The artwork ranges from the abstract to representational to expressionistic in nature. Each artist has arrived at their artwork independently, and the exhibit focuses each piece into one unified concept that guides visitors through the cycle of nature and life itself.

ARE YOU AN ARTIST?

More than 15 exhibitions fill four South Shore Arts galleries each year, showcasing regional, national and international artists and cultures. If you are an artist interested in exhibiting with South Shore Arts, submit your exhibit proposal here or contact Brandon Johnson, Gallery Coordinator, at Brandon@southshoreartsonline.org

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Exhibit sponsors receive:
• logo and credit line on signage at exhibit
• logo and/or credit line in publicity and promotion
• opportunities for corporate entertaining throughout the exhibit

Contact Sandie Phalen, Director of Marketing and Development
219/836.1839, ext.107
 

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