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Weekend Preview

at Big Car Gallery


First Friday opening: Feb. 6, 6-9 p.m.

Outside/In: I.a.w.C.t.B.C.G.o.F.s. or Two States One Cup in Suite 4

Outside/In: Two States One Cup

Eight contemporary artists working in a variety of styles and mediums come to Indianapolis from Iowa City in the second of a series of collective exchange shows at Big Car Gallery. Two States One Cup is a search to discover the importance of travel and specific space. In conjunction with the Big Car Collective's project to visit other cities and towns and create shows about these places from an outside perspective, Public Space ONE Gallery, in Iowa City will host a group of Indianapolians to exhibit in May.

Music that night at 9:30 p.m. by Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes, Ayawasca and Sam Eakin and the Awkwards. Music will be in Suite 215.

Artists involved:

Christina McClelland uses printmaking, installation, and video to challenge and confront accepted notions in the domestic space and beyond, revealing struggles for power and control. She received her BFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2008 and now works for Project Art at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Her work has been shown in Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Nebraska, as well as in Croatia. Geographer Kevin Berg is a BS candidate at the University of Iowa in Geography. Their collaboration is guided by a combined interest in human interaction with and within spaces. See more here.

Jenn Myers is getting her MFA in Intermedia at the University of Iowa. She uses video, installation and drawing as an experimental playground that involves audience participation and collaboration. She is currently working on a series of circular video environments that appropriate narrative elements from various traditions. Learn more here.

Daniel Luchman was born in Iowa City, IA and is currently attending graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He pursues video and installation projects that humorously explore personal mythologies and the human desire to construct cultural meaning. View video work here.

Caleb Engstrom, an Iowa City, IA resident, received his BA in Studio Art from the University of Iowa in 2007. Currently, he is a carpet cleaner/water damage restorer, substitute teacher, and curator for Public Space ONE Gallery in Iowa City. Using everything from performance, drawing, video, and installation his work draws upon established ideas of labor and tests of will. For more information visit www.calebengstrom.org.

Genevieve Lawrence was born in Cedar Rapids, IA and is an MFA candidate in Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa. She is currently co-director of Arts Iowa City. Her work is focused on acts of illusion and believability and can be viewed
here.

Jeremy Chen was formally educated on the mean streets of Iowa City from kindergarten on. He is currently an independent artist in Grinnell, Iowa working on an assortment of projects using print media, drawing, book forms, installation, and short videos. Chen is a co-founder of the collaborative artist collectives ICRAPT and The Moving Crew. Find out more here.

Lee Emma Running's work functions as an aesthetic intervention into public space. Her installations go up quickly, sometimes overnight, and elevate local botanical life to enormous proportions. She strives to capture the beauty and complexity witnessed in very close investigation of natural phenomena and hopes to create a sense of wonder in her viewer. Running received her MFA in sculpture from The University of Iowa in Iowa City in 2006. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. See her work here here.

Katherine Parker works with video, painting and drawing, and installation, often making work that exists outside traditional gallery settings that appeals to a viewer's sense of wonder through frame or context. She is interested in questions of accessibility, both physical and conceptual. Her work often rewards the observant and patient viewer and privileges stillness and calm over action and proliferation. Her day job is in video production. She is a member of the Moving Crew.Find out more here.

Also that night



On Feb. 6 in Suite 215, The Naptown Rollergirls will display plaster busts of the members of the team decorated by artists. These will be auctioned off for a good cause later in February. Here's what they have to say about the show:

"We have to get this off our chest. Big Car Gallery will feature sculptures of Rollergirls's busts. You'll miss out on a bunch of memorable mammaries if you don't join the Naptown Rollergirls and Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes at Big Car. Our cup runnith over with good times for February's First Friday. Bust a move to the gallery and see Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes and your Naptown Roller Girls!"