Current Exhibits
Each year, the Peeler Art Center gallery program presents a wide range of exhibitions and related programming. From traveling exhibitions of national and international significance to shows featuring the work of current students, faculty, and alumni, the gallery program strives to offer a dynamic schedule of interdisciplinary visual experiences.
On This Page You Will Find:
- Current Exhibitions
- 2026 Upcoming Exhibitions
- Events (Click here for Upcoming Events and here for Past Events)
- Traveling Exhibitions
- Past Exhibitions
Fall 2025 Exhibitions
 Mask from the series Photographs, 2025 Photograph Courtesy of the artist |
Yuxiang Dong: Photographs 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. *Please see Here for upcoming events* |
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Willis 'Bing' Davis: I've Known Rivers September 2 - December 7, 2025 Peeler Art Center, Lower Level Gallery Curated by DePauw 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. |
 Trinity, 1991 Oil stick on paper |
Lida Gordon: Process and Materials August 20 - December 5, 2025 Peeler Art Center, Upper Level Gallery A DePauw 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. *Please see Here for upcoming events* |
 Carla Martin Skeleton Study #3, 1981 Charcoal on paper DePauw Art Collection, 1981.8.1 |
An Invitation to the Grotesque and Macabre: 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, DePauw class of 2024. During her time at DePauw 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 |
2026 Upcoming Exhibitions
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Universal Language: The Art of Sexual and Gender Diversity. The Kinsey Institute has collected material culture related to human |
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2026 Annual Juried Student Exhibition January 26 - February 22, 2026 Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts GalleryThe Annual Juried Student Exhibition features works created by current DePauw students enrolled in studio art courses. The 2026 Exhibition is juried by Nancy Nichols-Pethick who is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Indiana State University, where she has taught since 2003. Her studio practice encompasses a wide range of media—including oil, watercolor, acrylic, encaustic, charcoal, pastel, collage, and mixed media—with a strong foundation in figurative and representational techniques. She has exhibited extensively in solo and juried shows at venues such as the Swope Art Museum, Marian University Gallery of Art, and Gaslight Art Colony, and earned recognitions like Best in Show and Purchase Awards. In addition to her teaching and exhibition work, she actively contributes to regional arts programming and serves as a juror and speaker for events like Paint Illinois and community gatherings at the Swope. Her current studio focus centers on wild, overgrown landscapes in paintings and works on paper, reflecting a deep engagement with nature and place. |
 #53, 2017 Found materials, acrylic, graphite, ink, spray enamel, and latex on panel Copyright © Samuel E Vázquez. All rights reserved |
Samuel E Vázquez: Poetic Reflection January 26 - June 24, 2026 Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery A retrospective exhibition of paintings (2011-2025), photographs (1979-2019), and installation (2026). Through the use of diverse materials and markings whose assigned structure value is direct in their purpose, Vázquez reassigns and elevates their symbolic identification to reveal often-neglected beauty. In these once throwaway materials, markings, and artifacts, Samuel finds deep reflection, indelible connection, purpose to his personal journey, community strength, and the true meaning of home. Samuel E Vázquez (b. 1970, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a contemporary visual artist. He has exhibited alongside Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Sam Gilliam, Sabina Klein, Sam Francis, Keith Haring, Torrick “Toxic” Ablack, and Futura 2000 among others. While growing up in New York City, starting in 1979, Samuel became captivated by the vibrant paintings covering the subways. Over the next few years, he fully immersed himself in the city’s thriving youth culture, participating in style writing, breaking, music, and connecting with the Downtown art scene. This led Samuel to earn degrees from New York City College of Technology—CUNY and Herron School of Art and Design—Indiana University. Vázquez was a featured artist in special programming for the Ai Weiwei: According to What? exhibition at Newfields. His work is rooted in the New York City subway painting era of the 1970s and 80s and informed by the work of Ed Clark, Mimmo Rosella, Jacques Villeglé, Jackson Pollock, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. |
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All-Faculty Exhibition March 2 - April 5, 2026 Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery Every so often, we gather our studio faculty together for a joint exhibition showcasing their most recent works in their respective disciplines. Join us this spring as we celebrate current studio faculty and their ongoing work and research. |
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2026 Annual Juried Student Exhibition April 17 - May 16, 2026 Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery An annual exhibition featuring the work of graduating senior studio art majors. |
Past Exhibitions
Table with feet, 2024 Oil on canvas |
Stuart Snoddy: Pleasant Fictions 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. About 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. Website: Stuart Snoddy |