Opening This Week: Three New Exhibits You Can’t Miss
Mark Makers: An exhibition on contemporary drawing featuring Steven Assael, Anthony Adcock, Adrian Barquero, Christopher Ganz, Madeline Winter, Tim Lowly, Mary Porterfield, Don Yang, and Mary Borgman
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 10, 4–6PM
January 10–March 14, 2026
Bachman Gallery
1040 Ridge Rd, Munster, IN
Mark Makers explores drawing as both a foundational act and a dynamic standalone practice. Rooted in the earliest forms of human expression–long before written language–drawing has served as a primal tool for communication, reflection, and imagination. The exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists, such as Steven Assael and Mary Porterfield, who embrace drawing not merely as a preliminary step, but as a vital, complete form of expression. This is drawing not as preparation, but as a destination.
Image: Mary Porterfield, From This Day Forward, Oil on semi-transparent Dura-Lar film, 90in. × 63in.
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Something Deeply Hidden:
A Solo Exhibition by Wes Thorn
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 10, 4-6PM
January 10 – February 21, 2026
The Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Atrium
1040 Ridge Rd, Munster, IN
South Shore Arts is proud to present
Something Deeply Hidden, a solo exhibition by Northwest Indiana Artist, Wes Thorn. Featuring over 20 recent artworks, this exhibition brings together a series of geometric abstractions that invite viewers to look beneath the surface of order, symmetry, and color. The works, composed of precise forms and layered fields, operate like visual equations—suggesting that what appears simple and direct may conceal entire worlds of meaning.
Image: Wes Thorn, Filigree and Shadow, acrylic on wood, 36 in. x 36 in.
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New Year, Same Chaos
A Group Exhibition by Kerri Mommer, Juan Carlos Rodriquez, Dawn Diamantopoulos and
Andrea Williams
Opening Reception: January 9, 6-8PM
January 9 –February 21, 2026
Substation No. 9
435 Fayette, Hammond, IN
The exhibition New Year, Same Chaos, features the work of four artists who explore what the new year means to them and different ways to cope with today’s world. On the one hand, the new year can be viewed as an opportunity for a fresh start, a good time to choose to do a mental reset, to face the chaos head on. On the other hand, the new year is just a day on the calendar, and life continues on as it was.
Image: Andrea Williams, Searching for Silence. 24 in.x24 in., Oil on canvas
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South Shore Arts' programs are provided with support from the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.