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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
Inscapes: Robert Lee Mejer & Jason Dillard Mejer
Jun 28 - Aug 13, 2022
A father and son explore psychic space in mixed media painting, monotype assemblegraphs and watercolors revealing an undeniable visual connection.... read more
Hot CIAO IX
Group Art Exhibition
Jul 1 - Jul 23 2022
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Studios on Sheridan, 929 N. Sheridan Rd., Peoria read more
Jill King: New Horizons
Apr 29 – Jun 17 2022
Like celestial cloud formations, Chicago educator and artist Jill King’s sculptures are energetic three-dimensional gestural ‘drawings’ of twisted metal covered with stretched... read more
Mike Baur and John Boylan
Apr 29 - Jun 17 2022
The sculpture of Chicago based Mike Baur and the 2-D mixed media work of Peorian John Boylan are guided by traditional design principles and an instinct for frankness... read more
CAC Member Artists Biennial Exhibition
Feb 25 – Apr 16 2022
The artists enrolled in the Contemporary Art Center’s Artist Membership program (CIAO) return to the Contemporary Art Center’s Preston Jackson Gallery on the 2nd floor of the building for a dynamic group exhibition featuring one work of art from each member covering the mediums of drawing, ceramics, glass, painting, printmaking and many more. read more