Drawn from the museum’s collection of works by graduates of Indiana University’s fine arts department (now the Hope School of Fine Arts), “Contemporary Explorations: Reviewing Nature in the 1980s” examines the artists’ interpretations of the natural world.

“Reviewing Nature” takes a look at the balance sought between structural composition and the role nature plays in co-defining the space we share.

On display through May 19, 2013, this installation in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World at the IU Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana (map) was organized by Emily Wood, graduate assistant for Western art after 1800 at the IU Art Museum. Admission is free. Note: galleries are closed on Mondays.

(Photo, which is NOT from the exhibit, is “Yerres, Effect of Rain” by Gustave Caillebotte, from the IUMA collection)