In Safe Keeping

An Inaugural Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Art in a Historic Bank

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Featuring Fredricka Joyner, Robert Leavitt, and Cathy Williams

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What do we choose to protect, preserve, hold on to?

 

Set within the walls of a former bank, once a place of guarded vaults and measured value, In Safe Keeping brings together three artists whose work explores the emotional, aesthetic, and environmental dimensions of safekeeping.

 

Through expressionist gestures, abstract painting, and materially driven mixed media, this inaugural exhibition reimagines preservation not as stasis, but as a vital, living act. In a time when certainty feels increasingly elusive, In Safe Keeping frames art itself as a kind of vault - one that holds memory, intuition, and imperiled ecologies in trust, challenging us to reconsider what we truly value.

 

Artists Cathy Williams, Robert Leavitt, and Fredricka Joyner each offer a distinct yet interwoven perspective:

+ Visceral paintings blend abstraction and figuration to evoke memory, emotion, and spiritual presence offering raw, layered portraits of what it means to feel alive.
+ Abstract works explore the dynamics of light, line, and color pursuing balance through careful composition, while allowing tension and contrast to introduce complexity and depth.
+ Layered mixed media works draw on maps, photographs, and color-rich materials to explore systems in crises and the possibility of hope rebuilding what’s been broken.

 

Housed in a building once designed to protect wealth, this exhibition reframes safekeeping as a creative responsibility. What’s held in trust now is not currency, but culture, care, and the shared urgency of our time.

 

In Safe Keeping marks both a beginning and a commitment: to make space for bold artistic voices and to preserve the things we cannot afford to lose. In this way, the exhibition not only reimagines safekeeping but also challenges us to engage with it on a deeply personal and collective level.

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Exhibition Details:
In Safe Keeping
BankOnArt Gallery | 101 W. National Avenue, Brazil, IN
Opening Reception: November 15,  2025 (Time TBA)
Gallery Hours: TBD
Admission: Free and open to the public

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