10/15/2026
Join us this Saturday, October 17 at 11:15am for an Artist Walk & Talk with Ben Nicholson through his exhibition “Ex Materia Ex Nihilo.”
For 25 years, Ben has filled sketchbooks by hand — working through Pythagorean geometry, Kabbalah, Islamic calligraphy, and the architecture of sacred space. The show gathers those years of drawing in the Tube Gallery, and this is a rare chance to walk through them with the person who made them.
Ben lives and works in New Harmony, Indiana, where his studio and land works (a grass labyrinth, a tree circle, a garden) stay largely out of public view. Saturday, he brings that thinking to Indianapolis.
Saturday, October 17 · 11:15am
Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis
1125 Cruft St., Garfield Park
Free and open to all
Video by Jeremiah D Nickerson
Ex Materia Ex Nihilo is on view through April 18, 2027.