Work by DePauw’s Berry featured at Peeler Art Center

"Ritual" by John Berry

“Arboreta: A Sabbatical Exhibition” by DePauw University art professor John Berry will be on view at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center through April 7.

The paintings in the exhibit draw inspiration from the history, structures and resilience of the Schrebergarten in Leipzig, Germany, exploring the implications for how images, people and communities are organized.

Hovering between landscape and abstraction, flat shapes compartmentalize space into different surfaces, barricades and hiding spots. The ambiguities of spatial illusion are out in the open, weaving a seemingly wider range of frequencies into smaller, simpler encounters.

Persons may check the Peeler Art Center’s website for additional free events and lectures associated with this exhibition at http://www.depauw.edu/arts/peeler/events/.

The galleries are open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday from 1–5 p.m., and are closed during breaks and holidays.