In the gallery: The Secret Museum:

Recontextualized Objects by the Committee of Vigilance

First Friday:
Friday, March 5, 2010 5–9pm

The Committee of Vigilance is an eclectic group of artists and collectors comprised of Kristofer Bowman, Kipp Normand and DeAnne Roth. For the second installment of Secret Museum in Indianapolis, the collective finds high style and design in lost and often discarded objects. Found photographs and a WWII era practice bomb make up just a small portion of the work in this exhibition in which these objects have been re-assimilated into a contemporary vernacular. By presenting the work in new and imaginative ways and, in some sense, even highlighting their flaws, what was old is beautiful again.

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christopher west presents Do-it-yourself Utopias

New Drawings by Jeff Eisenberg

First Friday:
Friday, March 5, 2010 5–9pm

For his first solo exhibition in the Midwest, Jeff Eisenberg focuses on DIY architecture and the theory in biology called convergent evolution that describes the acquisition of similar or same biological traits in different species, such as wings in both bats and birds. Eisenberg sees something very similar going on in the buildings of disparate communities that, for different political or ideological reasons, choose to unplug from the grid and create alternatives to conventional society and its surrounds.

Jeff Eisenberg
Monitor
2008
Graphite on Paper
60.25" x 91.5"

Image credit: Courtesy of christopher west presents,
Indianapolis and Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA.

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For all the right reasons

Updating any brand has its challenges. Even more so for an established community that continues to grow. Economic development and tourism are key drivers, as is understanding what makes the town unique. Developing a brand that speaks to the future without losing the past while integrating multiple agencies through print, signage, and online adds to the excitement.

We worked with an amazing group of local townspeople that embodied the spirit of Zionsville: friendly, thoughtful, supportive, active, responsible, family–oriented and forward–thinking. Thinking of their home as ‘a town within a park,’ this community knows who they are, we just helped draw it out of them.

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