Exhibitions at Indigo Arts

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Exhibitions at Indigo Arts

Closing the Circle: A Selection of African Baskets

October 8, 2017 to April 7, 2018

Closing the Circle celebrates the range of contemporary African basketry with examples from several different African traditions:

Andes/Amazon: Two Worlds in Peruvian Folk Art

March 9, 2017 to September 30, 2017

Retablos from Ayacucho and Shipibo/Conibo Textiles from the Amazon Basin

Show dates: March 9, 2017 through September 30, 2017 
Opening reception: Second Thursday, March 9, 6 to 9pm. 
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12 to 6pm. 

MEXICANISMO: Expressions of Identity

October 13, 2016 to February 28, 2017

Indigo Arts’ 30th anniversary show - including work by Enrique Flores, Nicolas de Jesus, Eddie Martinez,
Felipe Morales, Rodolfo Morales, Fernando Olivera, Carlomagno Pedro, Mario Romero, Shinzaburo Takeda & others.

Show dates: October 13, 2016 through February, 2017 

Opening reception: Second Thursday, October 13, 6 to 9pm. 

Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12 to 6pm. 

Africa Modern

May 18, 2016 to October 8, 2016

Africa Modern celebrates thirty years of showing the arts of Africa at Indigo Arts. The exhibit samples the staggering range of artwork from the fifty years following Africa's independence from colonial rule - roughly from 1960 to 2010. It includes paintings, prints and sculpture by artists from Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania and Senegal.

Hearts on Fire!

February 6, 2016 to March 6, 2016

A World of Masks: Masks from Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific

October 8, 2015 to February 9, 2016

This is the season of transition and transformation. In the spirit of Halloween and Los Dias de los Muertos, the Days of the Dead, Indigo Arts presents a collection of masks from Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. They are masks that conceal, but may also reveal the wearer behind them. Masks are agents of celebration and transcendence, of commemoration and transformation.

Tinga Tinga Today: Tanzanian Popular Art in Transition

April 9, 2015 to September 30, 2015

In Tinga Tinga Today, Indigo Arts considers the unique genre of popular painting that has flourished in Tanzania since the late 1960's. With the passing of Omary Amonde, the last of the "first generation" Tinga Tinga artists, we look at the legacy of founder Edward Saidi Tingatinga, and the directions taken by the artists today. Tinga Tinga painting takes its name and its inspiration from Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). Born in a village in the far south of the colony then known as Tanganyika, he migrated north to the capital of Dar es Salaam in search of work in 1957.

Escenas Fantasticas: José Garcia Montebravo (1953-2010)

October 9, 2014 to January 31, 2015

José Garcia Montebravo was one of Cuba's leading naif artists, with an international following. While he was self-taught as an artist, he was hardly naive in the English sense of the word. ‘Monte’ was a witty and sophisticated man with a sure, fluid line in pen or brush. In his relatively short career the Cienfuegos teacher turned artist created a rich self-contained world of myth and fantasy. Escenas Fantasticas presents paintings and works on paper dating from 1984 until shortly before his death in 2010.

“Onè... Respè!” Art from Haiti

March 27, 2014 to September 1, 2014

The title comes from the traditional Haitian Kreyol call and response greeting. “Onè!" calls the greeter, meaning "honor!" The response is "Respè!" - "respect". The exchange captures the essence of Haitian culture.

Shrines of Life: The Peruvian Retablo

October 11, 2013 to February 8, 2014

Shrines of Life celebrates the art of the contemporary Peruvian retablo. The retablo is a kind of portable shrine or nicho holding figures sculpted of pasta (a mixture of plaster and potato) or maguey cactus wood. The making of retablos is a folk art whose roots go back to the sixteenth century in the Andes (and even to the Greeks and Romans before that). While the art’s origins are religious, the contemporary Peruvian retablos exhibited at Indigo Arts range from the sacred to the secular, to the profane.