INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The most extensive presentation ever mounted of Thornton Dials painting and sculpture will premiere at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, on view from February 27, 2011 to May 15, 2011. Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial will highlight the artists significant contribution to the field of American art and show how Dials work speaks to the most pressing issues of our timeincluding the War in Iraq, 9/11, and social issues like racism and homelessness. The exhibition will present over 75 of Dials large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures spanning twenty years of his artistic careerincluding 25 works on view for the first time. Thornton Dials work draws inspiration from the rich symbolic world of the black rural South. With no formal art education, Dial developed a truly distinctive and original style that was born out of decades of struggle as a workin