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March 2022

Kris Graves: A Southern Horror

March 4, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - April 16, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Kris Graves creates artwork that deals with societal problems and aims to use art as a means to inform people about cultural issues. He also works to elevate the representation of people of color in the fine art canon; and to create opportunities for conversation about race, representation, and urban life. Graves creates photographs of landscapes and people to preserve memory. “In Summer 2020 a collective uprising rooted in local civic engagements ricocheted around the world in response to the…

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Laura Foster Nicholson: Scenes From The Carbon Border

March 4, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - April 18, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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From the hands of a young person in China, to a shipping container crossing the Suez Canal, to a semi-truck driver transporting containers cross country, to people at the big box or mom and pop who unload them, to everyone going to the stores to buy things. These are carbon borders we’ve created 一 our feet, our cars, trains, planes, streets, and sidewalks all in motion. These borders both connect and divide us. Two years ago, driving from her home…

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pLopLop Vol. 14 Submission Form

March 17, 2022 @ 8:00 am - August 1, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
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Are you a writer? Have something to say? Want to put it in print? Submit your work to PLopLop! 100 word limit. Submissions are due by August 1. pLOpLop is an "Antholozine" of Poetry, Prose and Artwork published by Indianapolis, IN based visual artist, Big Car co-founder and writer John Clark since 1992. pLopLop has published the work of writers like Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Fielding Dawson, Eileen Myles, Gerald Locklin and more. Influences: Surrealism, Dada, Henry Miller,…

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Process/Progress Art Salon

March 25, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Join Indy Movement Arts and Big Car Collaborative for an innovative evening of performance, performance art, and kinetic creation. Kelvin Burzon and Jenny Delfuego will premier new work as a part of the Indy Movement Arts Process/Progress residency, accompanied by original work from Indy Movement Arts dance-makers, Bethany Bak and Lauren Curry. Patrons are invited to freely traverse the space; Drink, talk, and make merry as creation unfolds in all the nooks and crannies of the Tube Factory Artspace. From…

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April 2022

Mayasa Design House: In Color

April 1, 2022 @ 8:00 am - April 24, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St,
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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I am always seeking ways to blend the art in my soul, blur the genres, and allow a cohesive expression to come from multiple places within. -Uzuri Asad, Mayasa Design House Listen Hear will host paintings, jewelry and other items from Uzuri Asad of Mayasa Design House. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Uzuri Asad now lives and works in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Indianapolis as part of Big Car Collaborative’s Artist in Public Life Residency program. She’s a singer, dancer,…

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Drea Cofield: All At Once

April 1, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - May 23, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Alla prima is the Italian term for the material technique of wet on wet painting, and literally translates to "at the first", but I prefer to read "all at once" as it denotes a kind of urgent submission to the sensorial subject that parallels the sublimation of my more libidinal imagery into the touch of the landscape. Like a lover lost in the realms of desire, a pendulous breast or glistening ass becomes the wet slip of a brushstroke, the…

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May 2022

Juan Chawuk: Iridiscencia Cultural

May 6, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - July 17, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Juan Chawuk invites viewers to experience his home state of Chiapas, Mexico through paintings, photography, sculptures and murals. As part of an ongoing series, this work shines light on the multicultural citizens of Chiapas, how they’ve coexisted for centuries, and how conflict there has fostered new ways of creating. As an indigenous Maya Tojobal artist, Chawuk’s photographs show how cultures fuse together a shared iconography including some imposed by outside cultures with what remains from traditions of the past —…

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June 2022

Rob Funkhouser- Study In Place

June 3, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - July 24, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Study in Place is a set of interactive sound sculptures and instruments that celebrate the everyday sounds and objects around us. An attempt to unify diverse threads in his creative practice, daily life, and occupation, Funkhouser seeks a reckoning with the tension between falling into routine and cultivating long-term personal growth. “Moving to Indianapolis caused in me this profound, almost cosmic, sense of being in the right place at the right time. It afforded me both the right economic circumstances, and…

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August 2022

Qahar Behzad: The Colors of Afghanistan

August 5, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
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Opening in Tube Factory artspace's Guichelaar Gallery is a collection of works by Behzad created between the years 2011-2022 in Afghanistan and the US. Behzad grew up in Kabul in a family of book publishers, surrounded by centuries-old historical texts and rare books of poetry in his father’s libraries and bookstores. Behzad remembers reading traditional Afghan storybooks his father published that directly influence the art he creates. Behzad paints about life in Afghanistan, often from observation, depicting places like Kabul’s…

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Carlie Foreman: Full Disclosure

August 5, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - September 18, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Full Disclosure’s mixed media works find inspiration in collective memory and how it’s intertwined with the natural world. Foreman looks at the relationship between symbolism in ancient sites, churches and secret societies. She also 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. Foreman says: “A built network of beliefs becomes ingrained in the DNA of the land,…

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