First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
Tube Factory artspace
1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN 46203
Friday August 5th | 5-6PM
Join us for First Friday at Tube Factory artspace. Below you’ll find featured exhibition openings from local to nationally renowned artists at the Tube Factory, Listen Hear, and the Guichelaar Gallery.
For more information visit www.bigcar.org/event
Sister Song - The Requiem
In Tube Factory’s main gallery – Sister Song: The Requiem is a community-based project that examines how art and community co-creation processes can be used to heal the intergenerational trauma associated with enslavement and its aftermaths. The project, led by artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm, blurs the lines between the public and private by transforming mundane places into sacred spaces through public rituals. A requiem is an act of remembrance for the dead. How does honoring the dead give life to the living? How does the living remember their histories while creating new futures? How does embracing history help us release specific traumas and move toward a future where healing is possible? We explore these questions through the community co-creation process that is at the heart of Requiem: womb making.
Full Disclosure
In Tube Factory's Efroymson Gallery – Multi-disciplinary artist Carlie Foreman looks at the relationship between symbolism in ancient sites, churches and secret societies. Full Disclosure’s mixed media works find inspiration in collective memory and how it’s intertwined with the natural world. Foreman explores modern-day meme culture in relation to familiar patterns of sacred geometry and environmental symbols. She views the research, process, and creation of this work as a vehicle for spiritual transformation.
The Colors of Afghanistan
At Guichelaar Gallery – From an early age Afghan artist, Qahar Behzad was recognized by his friends and family as being incredibly gifted. Having drawn his first portrait of the former Afghan king, Mairwais Naika, Qahar received unwavering encouragement to pursue further development as an artist. Talking inspiration and techniques from some of history’s most famous and recognizable artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, as well as incorporating traditional Afghan landscapes and story books in his work, Behzad boasts of being the very first vendor to display and sell his paintings at Camp Eggers in Kabul. “I had no real training or instruction in art,” Qahar explained. “I just sit down and begin to draw, and everyone who looked at my drawing appreciated what my artwork stood for and pushed me to continue.” Now at 19, Qahar enjoys painting in his shop in Kabul within Camp Eggers.
A Jungle, Interrupted
At Listen Hear - Artist CA Davis creates a room-shaking, fifteen-minute surround sound piece that traces the tragic and deadly ironies, lies, and realities comprising the Vietnam War. This, staged among ephemera and original illustrations by Chicago-based visual artist Keith Couture, are laid bare for us to sit with and listen through in hopes that we may gain a clearer understanding of the relationship between capitalism and the endless conflicts that occur for or against its profits. Curator: Sylver Wallace
About Big Car
Big Car is an artist-led, community-based organization with deep ties to our neighborhood where we own four art spaces, 15 affordable artist homes, and an FM radio station — all on a formerly half-vacant block. For 19 years, we’ve utilized inclusive, arts-based strategies to boost quality of life by connecting people with art and each other. Our mission and practice as artists focuses on sharing the joys of learning and building through art. And we support other artists and partners who also work this way.
Website: www.bigcar.org