Bicentennial: Regionally Related Works from the Permanent Collection

East Gallery

October 4, 2025 - February 22, 2026

Charles A. Gick is an interdisciplinary artist who combines and moves between painting, video, performance, photography, sculpture, and installation art. His work continues to receive both national and international recognition. He was the first recipient of the Purdue University Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

Gick has also exhibited his work in several international group exhibitions in countries such as Korea, Kosovo, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Russia, and was selected as the only US representative included in “Curated Special Selections from Videoholica,” which was exhibited in Belgrade, Serbia, Milan, Italy, and Copenhagen, Denmark. He has presented artist lectures and academic research nationally and internationally. Gick received his BFA Degree in Painting and Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA Degree in Painting from Northwestern University. He is currently a Professor of Art at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

McDonald Gallery

October 4, 2025 - November 30, 2025

The work in this exhibit was created in the Philadelphia and Santa Fe studios of Steve Ford and David Forlano, working collaboratively as Ford/Forlano art jewelry since 1988. The title of the exhibition, That & This, refers to how we make decisions together. We are not intellectuals, not conceptual artists: rather, we make our decisions about our work by choosing between that and this; "I don’t like this, I like that”. The work is finished when we can both agree.

Shook Gallery

September 13, 2025 - January 11, 2026

Ying Lu Larimore was born and educated in Shanghai, China, at a time when normalschooling was disrupted by political strife. Her early interest in art was fostered by private lessons, but high school was followed by several years at a communal rice farm. Chinese universities were finally reopened to qualified students in 1979, and she was quickly admitted to the prestigious School of Art at the University of Shanghai, earning her B.A. in Art & Design in 1982. After working as an Art Designer at a Shanghai printing house, she managed to come to the United States to pursue an M.A. in Fine Arts at Purdue University, which was awarded in 1989. Her artistic conception integrates traditional Chinese styles and motifs with modern Western interpretations. From the artist: “I arrived here with a very solid training in classic Chinese art, with its distinguished traditions but relatively rigid rules. I’ll never forget my first Purdue class trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, where I experienced in person the explosions of colors from the Impressionists like van Gogh, Monet, and Matisse, and the freedom of Modernists like Jackson Pollack. I also looked at these masterpieces as a challenge, thinking that I could try my hand at some of these styles, but with the added context of the classic lines, styles, and perspectives of traditional Chinese art. Every time I pick up my charcoal or my paintbrush, I am doing a fusion of my early training with the wide-open opportunities in Western art. Every day is still an exciting challenge...” In addition to pursuing her art, Ms. Larimore was a long-time art teacher, first at Frontier Jr/Sr High School (Chalmers) and then at Battle Ground Middle School (Tippecanoe School Corporation). She has also taught at Purdue University, and various classes with the West Lafayette Parks & Recreation Department and at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. Her work has been exhibited in Shanghai, Tokyo, Indianapolis,