Much of fine art and sculpture invites our curiosity in this way, where the manipulation of raw materials by hand and/or machine can tell us something about the world and about ourselves. The acronym ASMR, then, in addition to its more scientific definition, offers the gentle totem, “A Sculpture Mirrors Reality”." Patrick Hurst honors the art of process, from the preparatory stages through the execution of a sculpture's design. Those tasks which one might deem more directly tied to his work include (but are hardly limited to) expert implementations of CAD modeling, CAM processes, pharmaceutical grade welding, manual machining, high grade finishing, and polishing.

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Tamar Kander + Amy Kirchner: Silence and Sunlight opens in Long-Sharp Gallery Indianapolis February 10, 2024. Two of the gallery's most popular painters join together to showcase their newest works.

Jason Myers is a prolific multi-disciplinary artist with studios in Indiana and the Netherlands. His artwork invites the use of such materials as steel, resin, and computer-generated prints. Complex, layered, and exquisitely executed, Myers’ work often questions our current political and socioeconomic environment. His exhibit, "Fragility: Embracing the Impermanence and Beauty of Life” at Long-Sharp Gallery Indianapolis.

To be human is to tell stories. Since time immemorial, it is through spoken and written word that we have learned one another, taught one another, and made manifest our existence. I Was Here honors mark-making: the physical, creative desire to take proverbial pen-to-paper and the visceral, human yearning to record, to memorialize, to matter.

Andy Warhol’s hand was undoubtedly skilled. That skill transformed commercial art, fine art, and the art world in ways well beyond one exhibit’s ability to communicate. In this exhibition, larger-scale drawings from Warhol’s last decade serve not only to illustrate his skill, but to provide insight into the last decade of his life.

“Front Page” features works by fourteen artists from four continents, each of whom creates in, on, or with paper. Works by established and emerging artists in the form of prints, collage, paintings on paper, and paper sculpture explore the strengths of a medium traditionally thought to be limited to sketches and studies.

This is the first exhibition at Long-Sharp Gallery devoted exclusively to paper works. Come see us Friday, November 4th from 6-9pm!

Artwork © Lavett Ballard, Fiona Grady, Destiny Palmer & Constance Edwards Scopelitis

Long-Sharp Gallery celebrates its representation of Móyòsóré Martins with a solo exhibition opening 31 August 2022.

Long-Sharp Gallery Indianapolis kicks off its 2022 gallery season with a solo exhibition for mixed-media artist Lavett Ballard. The exhibit, My Soul Has Got To Move, will take place from February 4 - March 26.

The Indianapolis exhibition title references a “1978 gospel-funk-soul song of the same name, a tune about change and transformation… many of the artworks and their titles express such themes as presence, personal evolution, gender empowerment, racial solidarity, and collective uplift,” says Dr. Tiffany E. Barber, scholar, curator, and critic who wrote the essay about Ballard and her works in this exhibit.

Ballard’s works have been exhibited in numerous museums, are in important collections, and her portrait of Rosa Parks was featured on the 2020 cover of TIME Magazine. She was recently named by Black Art in America as one of the top 10 emerging Black female artists to collect. She is represented exclusively by Long-Sharp Gallery & Galerie Myrtis.

Her Indianapolis exhibition opening (February 4th, 6-9pm) is sponsored by Conrad Indianapolis. For the health and safety of our community, masks are required. Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test (taken within 72 hours of event) is also required.

My Soul Has Got To Move © Lavett Ballard

Long-Sharp Gallery is elated to announce a solo exhibition of works by Moira Cameron and Xavier Spiller-Cameron, the UK-based dynamic mother-and-son-duo better known as Spiller + Cameron. This exhibit marks their first solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition consists of eighteen mixed media paintings from six series of works, each of which have a central and important quality: they are constructed from recycled materials.

Celebrating Andy Warhol’s birthday (August 6, 1928) and their 15th year in business, Long-Sharp Gallery Indianapolis opens the exhibit Andy Warhol: A Survey of Portrait and Figurative Drawings from the Mid-1950s on August 6, 2021…Read more.

Image caption: Close up of Untitled (Female Portrait) © Andy Warhol.

Long-Sharp Gallery's Spring 2021 exhibition opening in its Indianapolis Gallery on April 16th celebrates millions of vaccinations in first-world nations. On the Brighter Side features works by 11 artists from as far away as Colombia and South Korea and as close as the gallery's Indianapolis backyard. The exhibit, full of color and texture, shines bright and hopeful but also reserves a moment for enduring pain and lives lost (through works such as Miriam Londoño's installation, Silent Prayer).

Long-Sharp Gallery announces its first major large scale sculpture exhibition in Indianapolis: Sculpture of Scale, a part of the gallery’s SCULPT program. The exhibit includes works by 12 contemporary sculptors from across the globe. Read more.

Long-Sharp Gallery announces the opening of Stratify in its New York Project Space at 24 West 57 th Street, Suite 606 (The New York Gallery Building, Midtown). Stratify explores the works of five contemporary artists whose paintings and sculptures combine and layer materials -- intertwining similar and dissimilar elements, shapes and/or colors.

Image: Réverence ou Maria Callas fait la Dab © Sylvestre Gauvrit

Tarik Currimbhoy’s sculpture was exhibited alongside others whose works were inspired in the Big Apple such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Antoni Tàpies, Robert Indiana, and more.

Image: Eclipse (Bronze) © Tarik Currimbhoy

Long-Sharp Gallery announced the first US solo exhibition for important South Korean sculptor Cha Jong Rye. The exhibit, Cha Jong Rye: Sculptural Landscapes, celebrated new work by the artist and the announcement of her exclusive U.S. representation by Long-Sharp Gallery.

Image: Expose Exposed 190418 © Cha Jong Rye

In this solo exhibition, Long-Sharp Gallery presented photos from William John Kennedy’s recently published collection of images capturing Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol (and their most iconic works) at the rise of the Pop Art Movement. Shot in the early 1960s when he and his wife forged a friendship with the two Pop artists, Kennedy’s extraordinary photographs — which lay in storage for nearly 50 years — reveal a story of the pivotal moments and players who shaped the course of American art in the second half of the 20th century.

Image: Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana © William John Kennedy

Our first solo exhibit of works by the artist since we began our exclusive representation in 2017, "Amy Kirchner: Letting Go" consisted of 15 paintings of various palettes — each featuring characteristics of Kirchner’s signature abstract expressionist style, influenced by artists such as Agnes Martin, Wassily Kandinsky, and Helen Frankenthaler.

Image: Untitled with Black Line © Amy Kirchner

In Tandem focused on limited edition and unique prints – created in conjunction with Tandem Press - by Alison Saar, Suzanne Caporael, Sam Gilliam, Dan Rizzie, Judy Pfaff, and Swoon. Collectively and, in some cases, individually, their works may be found in the permanent collections of the most important museums exhibiting contemporary works worldwide.

Image: Peony © Dan Rizzie

In this exhibition centered around hand-painted and Swarovski-studded sculptures by Metis Atash, whose works are often inspired by a particular master in his or her field, each of Atash’s sculptures was paired with a work by the master to whom her creation pays homage.  For example, Metis' "Letting Go (featuring Roy Lichtenstein)" was shown alongside Lichtenstein's Chem 1A; Pablo Picasso's Frugal Repas hung along the wall next to Metis' "Changes [featuring Pablo Picasso]". 

Artwork © Metis Atash