Face Value: Portraits from The Kinsey Institute explores the various ways that artists utilize the portrait. This exhibition in the main gallery includes contemporary and vintage photographs, as well as painting, prints, and sculpture.

One of the featured artists, renowned photographer Judy Dater, lectured about her work and caree ron opening night. For details regarding the lecture, visit: http://www.facebook.com/events/530922923616265/

Other artists in the exhibit include Boris Artzybasheff, Herbert Ascherman, Andrey Avinoff, John Bentham, Niki Berg, Niki Grangruth and James Kinser, Eric Trefelner, Michael Grecco, Chas Ray Krider, George Platt Lynes, Kristin Lyseggen, Chloé Meynier, Arnold Newman, Dianora Niccolini, Erwin Olaf, Irving Penn, Pierre et Gilles, Ivan Pinkava, Herb Ritts, Gavin Laurence Rouille, Sarah Sudhoff, Ryudai Takano, J.D. Talasek, Doris Ulmann, Shen Wei, Len Prince, and Joel-Peter Witkin.

Public reception on Friday, April 12, 5:30-7:30 pm at The Kinsey Institute, Morrison Hall.

Casual Encounters, in the institute's Corridor Gallery, takes a look at intimate yet anonymous sexual interactions, as depicted by European and American artists from the 18th century to the present day.

In addition to many anonymous works, the exhibition includes photographs by Evan Baden, Nelson Bakerman, George Booth, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vincent Cianni, Bill Haigwood, Jennifer Ray, Mark Addison Smith, Pam Spaulding, Cammie Toloui, and VATO, drawings by Marc DeBauch, Michael Miksche, and Christopher Troutman, prints by Paul Cadmus, Dominique Vivant Denon, and Michel Fingesten, and mixed media collages by Robb Stone.

The Juried Art Show 2013 will be held at the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University. Opening event is May 17th.

This show is our contribution to the Fall 2013 Themester: “Connectedness: Networks in a Complex World.” The exhibition will bring together older artworks from the collection and recent acquisitions, to explore the connection between the work of contemporary artists and artwork and imagery from past eras.

Opening reception on Friday, September 6, 5:00 to 7:00 pm.