Past Exhibitions
Seasoned: Anita & John Tuccillo

Seasoned: Anita & John Tuccillo

Jan 5 – Feb 16 2024

Each spouse brings their expertise to the process: Anita, her mastery of illusion with paint and John, his physical craft with paper-casting. The best of their ideas emerge in hybrid works that offer a unique view of the urban landscape. read more

Qingjun Huang: Illinois Family Stuff

Qingjun Huang: Illinois Family Stuff

Jan 5 – Feb 16 2024

When Chinese artists Qingjun Huang and Liu Yang wished to extend the “Family Stuff” series to local subjects, Contemporary Art Center assisted in making connections. Many of the photos in this exhibit are a result of that effort. read more

Contemporary Art Center Member Exhibition

Contemporary Art Center Member Exhibition

Group Art Exhibition

Dec 11 2023 - Jan 20 2024

Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Members have organized this group exhibition at Time Gallery. There are 33 works of art on BOTH the 2nd and 3rd floors. Each artist chose one original work of art to exhibit. read more

Justin Henry Miller: Regards From The Black Hole

Justin Henry Miller: Regards From The Black Hole

Oct 27 – Dec 16 2023

Science-fiction and controversial trends in science, anatomical illustration and cartoons, collide in Justin Henry Miller’s whimsical fantasies of biomorphic beings, fluctuating between success and failure in their own dayglo world of desolation. read more

A Small Wonder Gift Shop

A Small Wonder Gift Shop

Oct 27 – Dec 16 2023

A small wonder means small work from local artists and that means work priced for holiday gifts! Gallery 3R is turned into a gift shop for small works of art. read more

Contemporary Art Center Member Exhibition

Contemporary Art Center Member Exhibition

Group Art Exhibition

Aug 26 - Oct 16 2023

Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, 2400 Tom L. Wilson Blvd., Galesburg, IL 61401 read more

Artists of The Pharmacy

Artists of The Pharmacy

Group Art Exhibition

Aug 25 - Oct 14 2023

Artists associated with The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space in Springfield, Illinois display work in a group exhibit. The non-profit was formed by 13 visual artists in 2011 inside the old Watt Brother’s Pharmacy. read more

Tanya Bayer & Janet Bratcher

Tanya Bayer & Janet Bratcher

Aug 25 – Oct 14 2023

Some artists have a special ability to raise the secrets nature holds and spin them into something that most couldn’t have visualized. Seeing beyond the surface is the key to transforming the mundane into works of art. read more

Flowers for Ukraine

Flowers for Ukraine

Group Art Exhibition

Jun 30 - Aug 11 2023

To show our support for Ukraine and to raise donations, Central Illinois artists have created artwork and patrons are invited to purchase them and/or to donate directly to various organizations serving in Ukraine. read more

Vera Scekic: Synthetic Being

Vera Scekic: Synthetic Being

Jun 30 – Aug 11 2023

Vera Scekic is especially fond of manipulating paint as it surrenders to gravity. Her playful works evoke biotic forms growing like microbial blooms in petri dishes. read more

Mid Illini Art Show

Mid Illini Art Show

Apr 15 - Apr 20, 2023

The Mid Illini Art Show is an annual gathering of great student artwork from all participating Mid Illini high schools. Each school is allowed to submit up to 26 pieces of 2-D, 3-D, and photography combined. The work is then judged by a group of professional artists and art teachers outside of the district. read more

Preston Jackson: Biographical Tracings

Preston Jackson: Biographical Tracings

Apr 29 - Jun 19, 2023

Offering a surreal but personal form of reality, Preston’s energetic work is filled with stylized figures inspired from nature and childhood experiences. This series of paintings reads like chapters from a fantastic memoir..... read more

Morgan Elser: The Other Side of Joy

Morgan Elser: The Other Side of Joy

Apr 29 – Jun 19 2023

23 years ago, Delavan artist Morgan Elser discovered her passion for creating in three dimensions and has since explored many mediums including bronze, fiber, stone, stainless steel and found objects. As she progresses, a story also unfolds... read more

Artists of Manneken Press

Artists of Manneken Press

Feb 24 - Apr 14, 2023

Jonathan Higgins and Sarah Smelser’s Manneken Press in Bloomington invites significant contemporary artists to collaborate with master printmaker Higgins to create original works in intaglio, relief, lithography and monotype.... read more

Hattie Lee: Joy Intwined

Hattie Lee: Joy Intwined

Feb 24 – Apr 7 2023

While a member of the Cherokee Nation diaspora, Hattie Lee also recognizes she is a collage of cultures. Just as families and societies are shaped by each generation, she collages into her work metaphorical and physical materials... read more

Hot CIAO X

Hot CIAO X

Group Art Exhibition

Mar 3 - Apr 15 2023

Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Studios on Sheridan, 929 N. Sheridan Rd., Peoria read more

Harold Boyd & Rhea Edge: Lost Lore

Harold Boyd & Rhea Edge: Lost Lore

Jan 6 - Feb 18, 2023

As fellow artists, educators and administrators, Rhea Edge of Eureka College and Harold Boyd of Illinois State University have shared a long partnership in the downtown Bloomington arts community... read more

Rhea Edge & Harold Boyd: PrintMakers

Rhea Edge & Harold Boyd: PrintMakers

Jan 6 – Feb 18 2023

Boyd’s gestural figures defy gravity, exploring lithography, etching and relief printmaking with fluid lines in a largely black and white world. Edge brings us the power of stealth bombers and predatory birds in these abstracted etchings, lithographs and relief prints... read more

Qingjun Huang: Housed/Unhoused

Qingjun Huang: Housed/Unhoused

Nov 4 - Dec 17, 2022

Chinese artists Qingjun Huang and his wife Liu Yang recently emigrated to USA to live in Peoria. While in China, Qingjun convinced people to display all of their belongings in front of their homes to be photographed... read more

A Small Wonder Gift Shop

A Small Wonder Gift Shop

Oct 28 – Dec 16 2022

A small wonder means small work from local artists and that means work priced for holiday gifts! Gallery 3R is turned into a gift shop for small works of art. read more

Phyllis Bramson: Mostly Folly (and a Few Kerfuffles)

Phyllis Bramson: Mostly Folly (and a Few Kerfuffles)

Aug 26 - Oct 15 2022

Bramson is a voyeur in her own eccentric narrative of romantic folly and loss. Her often steamy, dichotomous scenes are composed of vignettes in a theatrical like space.... read more

Travis Janssen – Helvetica: Uppercase

Travis Janssen – Helvetica: Uppercase

Aug 26 - Oct 22, 2022

A confluence of video, experimental typography and photo processes, Janssen’s work translates letterforms from the Helvetica typeface into meditative geometric images... read more

CAC at DAAC

CAC at DAAC

Group Art Exhibition

Sep 2 - Sep 28 2022

Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Decatur Area Arts Council’s Anne Lloyd Gallery, in Madden Art Center 125 North Water Street, Decatur, IL  62526 read more

Jessica McGhee: You Can Rest Here

Jessica McGhee: You Can Rest Here

Jul 1 - Aug 13 2022

Jessica proves that trash is full of potential by creating colorful jewelry and sculpture using discarded items found during community clean-ups.... read more