Exhibitions at Indigo Arts

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Exhibitions at Indigo Arts

Ignacio Fletes Cruz: Nicaraguan Primitivista Painter (2007)

February 2, 2007 to March 31, 2007

Philadelphia, PA - Noted Nicaraguan Primitivista artist, José Ignacio Fletes Cruz returns to Philadelphia for his second solo show at Indigo Arts Gallery in Old City. Fletes Cruz will be on hand for a reception at Indigo Arts Gallery on First Friday, February 2nd, from 5 to 9:30pm. He will also be at the gallery on saturday afternoon, February 3rd (2-6pm), to demonstrate and discuss his work.

José Garcia Montebravo: Cuban Self-Taught Painter

October 6, 2006 to November 3, 2006

PHILADELPHIA - Marking its 20th year of exhibiting international folk and contemporary art in Philadelphia, Indigo Arts Gallery offers two shows featuring the arts of Latin America: José Garcia Montebravo: Cuban Self-taught Painter and Prints from Oaxaca: Masters of the Mexican Tradition.

Prints from Oaxaca: Masters of the Mexican Tradition

October 6, 2006 to December 30, 2006

Indigo Arts’ show of prints from Oaxaca is selected from the summer’s exhibition of prints and paintings, De la Tierra de los Sueños / From the Land of Dreams. Dating from 1986 to the present, the Oaxacan prints bring the story of Mexican printmaking up to the present.. While the landscape, customs, mythology and political struggles they depict are specific to Oaxaca of the last two decades, the work carries on the great Mexican print-making tradition that runs from Guadalupe Posada through Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros and Tamayo.

De la Tierra de los Sueños - From the Land of Dreams

May 5, 2006 to July 30, 2006

Prints and Paintings from Oaxaca, Mexico:
Modesto Bernardo, Enrique Flores, Abelardo Lopez, José Eddie Martinez, Leovigildo Martinez, Lorena Montes, Felipe Morales, Rodolfo Morales, Fernando Olivera, Filemon Santiago and others.

Sky Above and Earth Below: Tibetan Landscapes and Thangka paintings

December 2, 2005 to February 26, 2006

Tibetan Landscapes and Thangka paintings by Karma Tsering Lama, Nima Gyamcho Lama & Binod Moktan

Visions to Heal the World: Huichol Art by José Benitez Sanchez, Maximino Renteria de la Cruz and others

October 7, 2005 to November 27, 2005

Featuring Visionary Yarn-paintings and Beadwork from Mexico's Sierra Madre

Mysteries and Miracles: Folk Art from Northeast Brazil

April 1, 2005 to July 31, 2005

Wood-cut prints by José Francisco Borges, Ivan Borges, Severino Borges, José Miguel da Silva, Marcelo Soares, Abrao Batista and others from Pernambuco, Brazil.
Carved wood milagré ex-votos from Ceara and Pernambuco.

PHILADELPHIA - The new exhibition opening at Old City’s Indigo Arts Gallery on April 1st features two distinct folk arts from Brazil’s Northeast: the folheto tradition of wood-cut prints, represented by the work of José Francisco Borges and others, and the carved wooden ex-votos called milagrés.

African Visions: Sculpture, Textiles, Paintings and West African Hairdresser Signs

November 5, 2004 to January 30, 2005

Philadelphia, PA - Indigo Arts Gallery in Old City demonstrates the many different expressions of African creativity with the exhibition African Visions, opening on November 5th. Like the ambitious exhibit currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, African Art, African Voices, the show includes work of many media and styles.

Susan Rodriguez: Stealing Water from the Moon

October 1, 2004 to October 31, 2004

Pastel Collages, Prints, Scrolls and Ceramic works

Masters of Haitian Art

May 7, 2004 to September 24, 2004

Paintings, Sculpture and Vodou Banners

In commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of Haiti’s independence as well as the 60th anniversary of Port-au-Prince’s Centre d’Art, Indigo Arts Gallery presents Masters of Haitian Art. In a time of political turmoil and great deprivation in Haiti, we pay tribute to the incredibly rich cultural and artistic heritage of the Black Republic with an exhibition of some of Haiti’s leading artists of the last sixty years.