NIU’s newest art exhibit features work that doesn’t follow any traditional forms.

Located in the South Gallery of Altgeld Hall, the exhibit features the work of artists who express their talents in alternative ways.

“The show is really neat,” said Pete Olson, the exhibit’s collections manager and curator. “It is neat to see art in a different way.”

Joan Truckenbrod’s exhibit features video projections. These video projects are not displayed on a screen, but on different objects.

“It is the way the images look on the different objects that makes her [Truckenbrod’s] art so fascinating,” said Erik Glenna, senior art major.

Truckenbrod’s exhibit is called “Estuarine Spaces.” An “estuary” is a halfway point between an ocean and a fresh body of water.

Like an estuary, Truckenbrod’s art is a space of transition.

“A lot of Truckenbrod’s art reflects life and the cycle of life,” Olson said. “There are a lot of pictures of fish, mainly salmon, and it just shows how life can be a cycle.”

Another artist featured in the exhibit is Jin Soo Kim. She is a Korean artist from Chicago. The themes behind her piece are movement, travel and dislocation. The exhibit is called “Roll-Run-Hit Hit-Run-Roll-Tick-Tick.” DeKalb is the last place in the U.S. it will be shown.

“It’s kind of funny that her piece is about travel,” Olson said. “That piece has traveled around a lot.”

The final piece featured is in the Rotunda Gallery. It is a group of broadsides, which are hand printed poems on a single piece of paper. The poetry is from the Center of Poetry in Chicago. This exhibit is co-sponsored with NIU’s English department.