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Tuesday 11am - 5pm Wednesday 11am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 5pm Friday 11am - 5pm Saturday 11am - 5pm

Pictura Gallery at FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, 202 S. Rogers Street, Bloomington, IN (2026)

Our vision for the gallery grew quickly and organically—each exhibit taught us more about the community we were serving, and how we could serve it best. Ten years later, Pictura is an integral part of everything we do at FAR. Pictura’s new home inside the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts allows us to continue sharing the best contemporary fine art photography as it evolves, especially showing how photography can interact with other forms of visual art, performance art, and literature.

08/21/2026

Bloomington will be flush with thought-provoking and inspiring photographic events this fall. With exhibition receptions, artist talks, lectures, and intimate studio tours, check out these free opportunities to engage with world renowned photographers in your own backyard. Visit bit.ly/photoforward for more details.

Images
Slide 1: Osamu James Nakagawa, Sky, Minidoka, Hunt, Idaho
Slide 2: Osamu James Nakagawa Rocks, Manzanar, Independence, California
Slide 3: Susan Derges (English, born 1955). Untitled (eye no. 7), 1991. Gelatin silver print, 11 7/16 × 14 1/8 in. (29.1 × 35.9 cm). Gift of Lee Marks and John C. DePrez Jr., Shelbyville, Indiana, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2022.281
Slide 4: Sajik Kim The Girl Who Dreams (With Seven Birds), 2022
Slide 6: Abelardo Morell (American, b. Cuba, b. 1948). Camera Obscura: The Eiffel Tower in the Hotel Frantour, 1999. Gelatin silver print, 24 × 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm). Gift of Lee Marks and John C. DePrez Jr., Shelbyville, Indiana, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025.100
Slide 7: Eliot Ross Tim and the First Rain

05/07/2026

Matar’s books are available at Pictura Gallery! 11-5pm Tues-Fri.

“A question, an unresolved decision, runs throughout these portraits. For those who are able, when – if ever – is it time to leave your home?

Matar, like Rineke Dijkstra or Judith Joy Ross, is a sensitive and curious portraitist, especially of women and girls. She’s also a cinematic photographer who imbues her images with dramatic tension. Beautifully composed, made with an awareness of architectural space and light, her pictures nonetheless remind us that the destruction playing out on a global scale has life-altering consequences for these young women on the cusp of adulthood.”

-From Jean Dykstra A Love Letter to Lebanon
Read full article here: https://thephotosphere.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-lebanon

04/23/2026

Anastasia Sierra creates a small stage from her surroundings, where her family members are bathed in theatrical shafts of light. In her series, ‘The Witching Hour,’ the main characters are a mother, her son, her father, light and shadow, shape and color. The pictures they make together show a mother’s complicated emotional state, as she watches her child grow from infancy to boyhood.

Her aesthetics are so singular that they give way to a more complex conversation about parenting and caretaking. In one photograph, her son lies on the ground looking upwards. A shadow stretches across his chest and morphs into his mother’s silhouette on the wall behind him. It’s as if the boy is birthing the shadow- as if he has somehow delivered her form into being, and not the other way around.

Anastasia Sierra received second place in this year’s prestigious Life Framer Series Award, juried by Mia Dalglish and Lisa Woodward.

Link to full post in bio

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04/16/2026

An excellent interview with Rania Matar was recently published by the Huffington Post. Here she speaks about returning to Lebanon to photograph, and her motivation to show the strength of the women in a country with recurring conflict. Matar’s prints are now on view, in tandem exhibitions at Pictura Gallery and the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art.

“They [the women] were now faced with the same painful decision of whether to stay or leave: One road leading to separation from family, home, and life as they know it, the other staying despite the fraught conditions in the country, always holding on to hope for better days. I knew exactly how they felt all these years later...I saw myself in them, in a painful realization that history keeps repeating itself.” - Rania Matar

To read the full article by and , go to the link in bio.

04/09/2026

Rania Matar’s exquisite series ‘SHE هي’ opened this past week at Pictura Gallery. This body of work looks at young women coming of age in the US and in Lebanon. Although we scheduled the exhibition almost 2 years ago, the timing has ended up being painfully relevant. Matar’s portraits capture the lives of young women who persist in uncertain times.

Poet, janan alexander opened the evening with a reading from her new work ‘come from.’ Both Rania and janan have deep roots in Lebanon that color and connect their work. Rania’s images filled our walls, and janan’s words filled the room.

04/02/2026

Reading, Friday at 6pm! janan alexandra will be reading from her book ‘come from’ as part of the opening reception for Rania Matar’s photographic series, SHE هي, which looks at young women coming of age in the US and in Lebanon. Both Rania and janan have deep roots in Lebanon that color and connect their work.

In her debut poetry collection, ‘come from’, janan alexandra weaves from English into Arabic, exploring the joint projects of longing and belonging. Part love song for the speaker’s mother, part grief song for ongoing postcolonial loss, this book reaches for, around, underneath, and through language—feeling for its limits and possibilities.

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202 S. Rogers Street
Bloomington, IN
47404

Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

+18123360000

Website

http://www.picturagallery.com/

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