Current Exhibitions
FRONT GALLERY: FACING IT BY LANDEN BLAKE SWEARINGEN
SEPTEMBER 12th - OCTOBER 11th, 2025
The Hutchinson Art Center is excited to have the work of Wichita artist Landen Blake Swearingen in our Front Gallery starting in mid-September.
Born in Wichita, KS and educated as a nurse, Landen Blake Swearingen is an artist who creates bodies of work to reflect the charging expressions one must fear or face. By practicing mostly as a mental health nurse, Landen delves into work that provokes intuition by evoking uninhibited form and color to lead people towards understanding the empathetic relation between what we feel and perceive.
Landen’s practice is based around creative events and community projects, offering his services to business and nonprofits alike to build the community through art. So far, Landen’s artistic enterprise has donated to 16 nonprofits in some artistic way or form, aspiring to change his surroundings and communal culture through fine art, advocacy, creative events, and health education.
This exhibition focuses on the intertwined nature of perception and reflection — the face shows everything. From a jeer to a sneer, a smile to a frown, and from discrepancy to absolute, an expressional value is placed on how you present yourself, and when and where you feel most yourself. We have all experienced emotion, and will always, and as the light fades masks are worn in the dark.
These selected works from differing series offer tastes of what could be experienced by the mind, body, and soul. Holistically, it is practical and advised to allow outlets for both negative and positive emotions; here is the artist’s: Art.
This exhibition is on display in the Front Gallery from September 12th - October 11th, 2025.