The Waldron Arts Center announces new March exhibitions: Thin Slices of Time, House Series, and Renaissance Pinball - Relating to Icons

Ushering in the spring of 2025, the Waldron announces three new shows. Aina Puce brings her first solo exhibition to the Educational Gallery. In Thin Slices of Time, Puce draws on her background as a neuroscientist to tell her own photographic story. Her work focuses on several things, one of which is catching singular moments in time, moments like no other. Puce also strives to highlight oft-overlooked details of images we see regularly, whether that is an architectural detail, the veins of a plant, or the symmetry of a view. Lastly, she works to capture a subject with minimal clutter. Aina will speak on her work during a gallery talk on Saturday, March 22, at 5pm.

In the Spotlight Gallery, Terre Haute artist, Rod Bradfield, presents his show House Series. In this work, Bradfield challenged himself to work within the confines of a singular icon - the basic house shape. Using varying colors, he maintains the simplified form, a far cry from his usual highly detailed, and often humorous, work. Though the later images in this series demonstrate more personally significant iconography, Bradfield still maintains the geometric house shape. That, along with the uniform brown Canson paper and bright, graphic colors, create an easy flow throughout the space.

In the Miller gallery, Jennifer Herrold presents her show Renaissance Pinball. Herrold utilizes the familiar form of a pinball playfield to display the typical representative iconographies for individual saints. Often tongue-in-cheek, Herrold’s work is a new take on the particularly influential artistic period of the Renaissance. Wrought with religious symbolism, her work creates a blend between historical reverence and modern amusement. Incorporated into Renaissance Pinball is a 1977 Williams’ pinball machine, Argosy.

ARTIST BIOS
Aina Puce is a visual neuroscientist of 40+ years who studies changes in the electrical activity or focal blood flow in the human brain. She was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia, and currently lives in Bloomington. Puce is a self-taught photographer of over 35 years, who also experiments with multimedia art, incorporating photographic materials into collages based on works in watercolor and gouache. She has dabbled in ceramics. Favorite photographic subjects include abstract details, landscapes, architecture, and nature themes. To shoot images, she uses analog and digital SLR, mirrorless camera, or cell phone and is now experimenting with cameraless photography.
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Puce has previously exhibited in three solo shows in Morgantown, West Virgina, (in 2007,2008 and 2013). In Bloomington, she is a member of the Bloomington Photography Club, the FAR Photo Review Group, and the Bloomington Arts Alliance. She has regularly exhibited in juried shows in Morgantown and Bloomington. She received Bloomington Art Council funding for a curated photo exhibit for the FAR Photo Review Group at the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts/Picture Gallery in 2023. In 2024, she participated in the peer-reviewed Open Call for Submissions [Constellation Galleries, Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington], being awarded gallery space for a photographic exhibition for March-April 2025. Her full photo portfolio can be seen here: https://ainapuce.myportfolio.com

Rod Bradfield grew up in northern and southern Illinois.  As an elementary student he was able to take weekend classes at and wander the Art Institute of Chicago, a definite influence on later work. Undergraduate and graduate work were completed at Indiana State University, in Terre Haute, Indiana.  An undergraduate degree in Fine Arts was earned in 1972, with Painting and Printmaking area majors. He was co-owner and operator of `The Workbench' leather shop in Terre Haute for several years after earning his undergraduate degree and while returning to Indiana State University to work on teaching certification. Graduate studies were in Art Education. He taught Visual Arts at the secondary level at various locations for 34 years, retiring in 2011 after teaching at Terre Haute South High School for 25 years. Bradfield has consistently produced and exhibited artwork since earning his undergraduate degree. Works have been exhibited and represented in galleries in the U.S. and Europe. Examples of his work have been published in exhibit catalogs and magazines and included in public and private collections throughout the U.S. Bradfield maintains a studio at his and wife, Jacquie's, rural lakefront home near Terre Haute, Indiana. They have 3 adult children and 4 grandchildren.

Jennifer Herrold explores the power of narrative, the interplay between decorative art, fine art, and graffiti by drawing upon her background as part of an artist family with expertise in fiber, ceramics, visual communication, and painting. She attended Interlochen Arts Academy, has a BFA in painting, and started an MFA in graphic design. She has resided in Indiana, Michigan, and New York. Currently she lives in Bloomington with her husband, a chihuahua, beagle, and cat.