Exhibitions at Indigo Arts

I will be out of town from July 9th to 17th, and so will not be shipping orders or open for visitors at the gallery. The Indigo Arts website will be active as always. I will respond to emails as soon as possible. I will be able to ship orders after July 17th, 2025.

Please Note:
Our Shopping Cart has been experiencing some problems recently, such that customers have encountered an error message and so have not been able complete purchases. If you have this problem please send us a message through the "Contact Us" form or leave a phone message at 215-765-1041. Let us know the item(s) you are trying to purchase and your contact information, including shipping address. We will send you a separate invoice that you may pay by credit card. Thank you for your patience!

Exhibitions at Indigo Arts

Mascaras II: Dance Masks from Mexico and Guatemala

June 29, 2025

"The Mexican, whether young or old, criollo or mestizo, general or laborer or lawyer, seems to me to be a person who shuts himself away to protect himself: his face is a mask and so is his smile. In his harsh solitude, which is both barbed and courteous, everything serves him as a defense: silence and words, politeness and disdain, irony and resignation.... He builds a wall of indifference and remoteness between reality and himself, a wall that is no less impenetrable for being invisible. The Mexican is always remote, from the world and from other people.

Arte Popular: Contemporary Mayan Art from Guatemala

April 27, 2025

This collection represents the work of two groups of indigenous artists of the Guatemalan highlands. They come from two distinct Mayan language and cultural groups - the Kaqchikel artists of San Juan Comalapa, Chimaltenango, and the Tzutujil artists who live mostly in three towns on the south shore of Lake Atitlan. The contemporary “naif” painting movement of both groups dates to the early twentieth century, but only received wider notice in the late 40’s, early 50’s.

The Year of the Snake

February 6, 2025

Cuban Self-Taught: Paintings from the Indigo Arts Collection

March 14, 2024 to April 26, 2024

A Selection of Indigo Arts' collection is showing at the Zephirin-Giannetta Gallery in Ardmore, PA

Address: 38 West Lancaster Ave. Ardmore PA 19003
Dates: March 14 to April 26, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 16, 3 to 5pm
Gallery contact: zgartco@gmail.com

For the Birds

June 8, 2023 to August 31, 2023

The enforced confinement of the the “Covid years” seems to have driven a lot of us to birding. As reluctant as I always am to be trendy, we seem to have joined the flock. We are fortunate to live within walking distance of a vast park system and within east driving distance of many more places where birds gather. We have also discovered we are surrounded by avid birders who can tell a Parula from a Prothonotary, and that they are overwhelmingly willing to share their knowledge. So we upgraded our binoculars and joined the flock.

Out There!

March 1, 2023 to June 15, 2023

An Online Exhibition of Outsider Art

Indigo Arts didn't exhibit at the Outsider Art Fair this year, but there is plenty to see on our online gallery. The selection of artwork is "Out There", in the geographic as well as the figurative sense. One may prefer to call the art Outsider, Art Brut, Intuitive, Visionary, Naif or Self-taught. Each term has its own advantages and limitations, and some artists fit more comfortably under one name than another.

Folk Art on Wheels

November 23, 2022 to February 18, 2023

An Online Exhibition for the Holiday season.

The world of folk and outsider art, like most other things in our world, moves on wheels -

Two Wheels,

Three Wheels,

Four wheels,

and more.

On rails,

or in the air.

I dedicate this exhibition to my brother Jonathan, who epitomized the romance with everything on wheels.

Mithila: Evolution of a Women's Art in India and Nepal

September 29, 2022 to February 10, 2023

An Online Exhibition.

The Maithil paintings of Nepal and the Mithila or Madhubani paintings of Northern Bihar, India are two sides of the same art form. The historic Mithila kingdom once spread across the southeast plains of Nepal and the northern Bihar and Jharkhand states of India. In both countries an ancient domestic wall painting tradition has been adapted to painting on paper, but it has evolved differently and at different times in the two countries.

Gérard's Fortune: The Art and Life of Gérard Fortuné

June 30, 2022 to September 30, 2022

" Gérard was of those beings who make the impression of being eternal. Not because of his energy at his 84 years old but because he has always been in another world, flying over with lightness and the smile all the things of life from here. " Arnold Antonin

Koupe Fè: The Steel Drum Sculpture of Gabriel Bien-Aimé

November 18, 2021 to March 26, 2022

Gabriel Bien-Aimé was born in 1951 in the village of Croix des Bouquets, now known as the “cradle of 20th century Haitian metal sculpture”. Croix des Bouquets nurtured such great Haitian sculptors as the late Georges Liautaud and Murat Brierre, the brothers Louisjuste, and Serge Jolimeau.