A variety of art work decorates the UIndy campus through the campus sculpture walk. Sponsored by Fifth Third Bank, the free outdoor art exhibition features work by artists from around the country. Sculptures range widely in size, style and subject and most were chosen for inclusion through the Fifth Third Bank Campus Sculpture Walk Competition. Seventeen sculptures are included in the exhibition, which is currently on display and runs through August 31, 2008.
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Near the west entrance of campus, next to the Fifth Third Bank, stands the 15-foot-tall Jacob’s Ladder, 1 a painted steel sculpture by artist Bernie Carreño. Jacob’s Ladder represents Carreño’s boyhood memories of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. The powerful image of electrical charges moving between two poles, and the equally powerful mountain landscape viewed between two trees, inspired this sculpture depicting natural energies. Carreño has another sculpture between Good Hall and Cravens Hall that can be seen from Hanna Avenue. The bright yellow steel sculpture entitled Sol Y Sombra 17 was inspired by the brilliant sunlight at a bullfight in Madrid, Spain. Carreño, who has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a full-time artist living and working in Indianapolis.
Close to the west entrance of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center is artist Shawn Phillip Morin’s sculpture, Dot to Dot, 2 made of granite, steel, and stainless steel. Morin, who received his MFA in sculpture from the University of Georgia at Athens, now heads the sculpture program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Morin’s work has been widely exhibited and collected throughout the U.S.
Northwest of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center are two sculptures. Wave Form Two, 3 created by Gary Gresko of Oriental, North Carolina, consists of salvaged wood from docks destroyed by hurricanes. “Art for me is an exploration in both style and materials. The journey, the surprises, the excitement comes with the unexpected.” Closer to the entrance to the Department of Art and Design office is Austin Collins’s large red steel sculpture, Temple XVIII. 4 Collins received an MFA from Claremont (Cal.) Graduate University and a Master of Divinity degree from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He is a professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of Notre Dame. His work is included in many collections, including Loyola, University of Chicago and California State University-Hayward.
Near the east end of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center are works by Dee Schaad and Catherine Schlebecker. Schaad, a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Indianapolis, has installed a clay sculpture, Totem, 5 outside the ceramics classroom. His work is included in a number of public and private collections, including the University of Evansville and the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute. Schlebecker’s terra-cotta sculpture, Flowers and Wallpaper, 6 is across the drive near the Sease Wing of the Krannert Memorial Library building. Schlebecker is an art educator and graduate student at the University. Lee Benson is the chair of the Department of Art and Design at Union University in Tennessee. His ceramic work Adam and Eve 7 stands between the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center and Esch Hall.
Three sculptures stand in front of the Krannert Memorial Library. Numinous Wedge 8 is a wood and steel work by Jay Dougan, a professor and working artist in Colorado. The metal and glass sculpture Universal Continuum 9 is by Beverly Precious, internationally known for her site-specific, large-scale pieces that incorporate dichroic glass to produce a dramatic, kinetic effect. Anatomy Vessel 10 is by Eric Nordgulen, chair of the Fine Arts Department and associate professor of sculpture at the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI. Eric’s work can be seen on Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis and in numerous public and private collections.
Southwest of Martin Hall is The Flying Wedge 11 by Jerald Jacquard, professor emeritus, Indiana University-Bloomington. This yellow steel-andlimestone sculpture makes the viewer aware of the aesthetic differences between architecture, landscape, and art. Jacquard received a Guggenheim Fellowship for monumental sculpture and a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Florence, Italy. His work is in several museum collections, such as the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
At the southeast corner of Lilly Science Hall is Brian Ferriby’s painted steel sculpture, Caterpillar. 12 Ferriby, who is from Berklem, Michigan, uses copper and steel mined in the Upper Peninsula. Ferriby employs techniques elemental to the region, from the earliest blacksmiths to those of the ironworkers who built factories, skyscrapers, and bridges. “I believe my sculpture is a continuation of these innovations.”
South of the Schwitzer Student Center are two additional artworks. The Indiana limestone sculpture People Emerging from the Stone 13 is by C. R. Schiefer, who maintains a 10-acre sculpture garden south of Indianapolis, near Martinsville. Freedom’s Folly 14 is an aluminum fabrication by artist Kenneth Ryden, depicting the contrasting definitions of the term “freedom.” Self-determination and individual expression are implied. A native of Chicago, Schiefer taught and served as artist-in-residence at several Midwestern universities, including Southern Illinois University and the University of Missouri. He is artist-in-residence and professor of art at Anderson University and resides in Yorktown, Ind.
Macy Dorf ’s sculpture Quit Whining 15 is on the second floor of Esch Hall, outside the School of Education offices. Dorf lives and works in Denver, Colorado. He has been represented by many galleries and his work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections.
Across the atrium in Esch Hall, opposite Quit Whining, stands Big Red Prop Flower, 16 a composite of found objects altered and painted. This sculpture by Jennifer Meyer, from Lansing, Ill., was inspired by ecological and environmental concerns. The collection and assemblage of these found objects, once discarded, is her attempt “to clean up the planet.”
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