Current, Past & Future Exhibitions
Jen Wohlner: BINGO! June 12 – August 8, 2026
Neidorff Family Gallery
Jen Wohlner is a St. Louis-based artist working primarily in pen, ink, and colored pencil to create large-scale drawings. Her influences range from the study of symbols to large data systems. Wohlner builds on an evolving visual language to write her own history, creating abstract self-portraits. Her work is also influenced by her background in software engineering, where abstraction is used to manage enormous software systems, selectively obscuring technical complexities for the use of engineers building on top of an existing code layer. Wohlner sees abstraction in her work in a similar way, layering visual information to create a functional seamless system. Ultimately her work serves as an exercise in perception, memory and honesty revealing that even the most robust datasets cannot capture the warmth, friction, and fullness of a queer life.
Artist Talk: Saturday, July 25, at 1:00 p.m.
Arena 2, 2025
pen, ink, colored and graphite pencils on paper
24 x 18 inches
Arena 1, 2025
pen, ink, and colored pencil on paper
14.25 x 10.25 inches
Me as Hot, Warm and Cold Storage Tiers, 2025-2026
pen, ink, watercolor pencil, and colored pencil on paper
50 x 38 inches each
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery: Alison Cofrancesco
2nd Floor Lounge: Hannah Toepp
Indiana University-Bloomington students Alison Cofrancesco and Hannah Toepp will exhibit their Master of Fine Arts theses at The Sheldon this summer. They were selected out of 40 studio visits with third-year MFA Candidates from four regional universities.
Alison Leigh Cofrancesco
Do Not Enter, 2026
oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
From the artist statement: Welcome to the world of stuff. In this world, consumer products are hyper available, and we are able to consume in a number of ways: online, secondhand, ethically, or impulsively. It is easy to feel ambivalent about the things we have with the added context of unfair labor practices, unsustainable materials, and the destructiveness of overconsumption.
Hannah Toepp
Light Seeker, 2026
ink-jet printed cotton sateen fabric
dimensions variable
From the artist statement: Light Seeker is a collection of hundreds of abstract pinhole photographic soft sculptures. They are objects of comfort because of their plush pillow form, and the imagery is from the process of capturing the moments of calming down from being anxious or overwhelmed.
Photo credit: Leni Wiegand