Exhibitions & Awards - Sandra Indig

Selected Exhibitions:

2017 Intersection Between History & Biology, Talking Colors, Int’l Psychohistorical Assoc., New York University, NYC
2017 Postcards from the Edge, Metro Picture Gallery, Chelsea, NY, NY
2016 “Objects & Symbols,” Emanuel Skirball Judaica Museum, One East 65th Street, NY, NY
2015 “Story in the Sky: Remembering 12 Sons,” Skirball 14th Annual Exhibition, Davis Mansion, NY, NY
2015 “Otherness,” Abrazo Interno Gallery, Clemente Center, NY, NY
2015 “Story in the Sky 2,” Int’l Psychohistorical Association, Kimmel Center, NYU, NYC
2015 “Camp 9,” Victoria University, Ferenzi Conference, Toronto, Canada
2015 “Black Kettle,” The Psychoanalysis and Science Conference, Talinn, Estonia
2014 “Transformations: The Sleeping Mind,” Skirball Gallery, One E. 65th St., NY, NY
2013 “Hullaballoo Collective,” Fountain Art Fair, 69th Regiment Armory, NY, NY
2013 “Light,” Skirball Gallery, One E. 65th St., NY, NY
2013 “Response Art Series,” Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Bronx, NY
2012 ish and isha/man and woman,Skirball Gallery, One E. 65th St., NY, NY
2012 Joie de Vivre, PS Project Space Gallery, 548 W.28th St., Chelsea, NY, NY
2012 Caught in the Grip, The Nightingale-Bamford School, 20 E. 92nd St., NY, NY
2012 Hullaballoo Collective, Fountain Art Fair, 69th Regiment Armory, NY, NY
2011 “The Response Art Series,” Industry City Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2011 “9/11 10th Anniversary Memorial Exhibition,” Freyberger Gallery and Yocum Institute of the Arts, Penn State Berks, Pa. and The Jewish Cultural Center, September to December Reading, Penn.
2011 “Embodied Light,” Exhibit and 9-11 Window Installation of “memory block,” Educational Alliance, Ernest Rubinstein Gallery, including reading, “Reflections in Black Plastic,” September December, NY, NY
2010 and 2011 “Artists Beit Midrash Exhibit,” Skirball Gallery at Temple Emanu-el, 65th Street, June, NY,NY
2009 H. Joe’s Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
2008* Rosenberg Exhibition Space, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
2008 The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, Mass.
2007 Mercy College Manhattan Campus, New York City
2007 Featherstone Center for the Arts, Oak Bluffs, Mass.
2006 The Pen and Brush, New York City
2006-2007 Louisa Gould Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
2006 Salmagundi Club, New York City
2005 Broome Street Gallery, New York City
1984 to 2006 Abingdon Square Painters Annual Exhibit, New York City
2004 Mercy College, Manhattan, New York City
2003 Manhattan Arts International website, New York City
2002*, 2003* Jefferson Market Regional Library, New York City
2001- 2011 Abingdon Square Painters Annual Exhibit, New York City
2001* Chase Manhattan Bank, 302 West 12 th Street, New York City
2001* Charles University, Department of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic

* = Solo exhibitions

Education:

Psychoanalytic certification, Washington Square Institute
M.S.W. and M.A., New York University
B.F.A., Syracuse University and University of Michigan

Academic Honors and Awards:

2011 Honored by the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work for contributions to the field of Clinical Social Work.
1997 and 2015, Gradiva Award Nominee in Painting, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
1996 to 1997 Liberty Partnership Grant, School of Visual Arts, New York City
1966 I.Merrill Foundation Grant, Pratt Graphic Art Center
1964 Magna Cum Laude, Syracuse University
1963 New York University and Syracuse University Scholarships
1962 Tau Sigma Delta, Architecture and Allied Arts Honorary, University of Michigan

Artist in Residence:

2006 Rogiers Artist Space, Sausalito, California
1990 Vermont Art Center, Vermont
1973,74,82 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia
1969 The MacDowell Art Colony, New Hampshire

Community Work:

2011 Honored by the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work for contributions to the field of Clinical Social Work
2010 and 2011 Reader and Judge for the Gradiva Award [for creativity, originality and contribution to the field] National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, New York City
1992 to 2014 Founder and Chair of “The Creativity and Transformation Committee,” NYS Society for Clinical Social Work organized and hosted five presentations/workshops on creativity and psychoanalysis per year and curated two member exhibitions.
2010-present Appointed Curator of the Abingdon Square Painters Association, Annual Exhibitions, L.I.C., New York City
1998 to 2001 N.Y.C. Organized Exhibitions, New York City
Abingdon Square Painters Association, New York City
1995 to 2001 Arts and Mental Health Consultant, Humanities Center, New York City
1992 to Present Chair of the Committee for the Arts and Creativity, New York State Society for Clinical Social Work

Articles on art and creative process:

2013 Review: “The Darker Side of Creativity.” The Clinician, www.NYSSCSW.org
2012 Review, “The Art and Spirit of Family Sculpture,” The Clinician, www.NYSSCSW.org
2011 Review: “The Artful Brain: Survival Through Creativity.” published by The Clinician, journal of the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work.
Spring/Summer 2000.”Dealing With Rejection,” FYI For Your Information NYFA. New York Foundation for the Arts. (Ask Dr. Art)
2000 “Talking About Painting; an Expression of Gratitude,” Art League of Long Island.

Published by Manhattan Arts International:

1999 “Linking Private Space to Public Venue,”
1998 “Talking About Black and White,” .
1998 ” Opposing the Comfort of the Known,”
1998 “Creativity and Creative Process”

Lectures and Seminars:

2017 “The Dark Side of Creativity: interpenetration of word and image,” Object Relations Institute, St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus,NYC
2016 “Walling off the Black Plate: Clinical Practice and Creative Process,” 39 th Int’l Psychohistorical Association, NYU Kimmel Center, NYC
2016 “Exploring Multi-Factorial Trauma by Visual Mentalization Process,” Gestalt Associates, NYC
2016 “Dialectics of Creativity and Vulnerability,” International Federation Psychoanalytic Societies, Roosevelt Hotel, NYC
2015 Post Traumatic Growth: Discovering the “I” Through Visual Mentalization presented at: The Int’l Psychohistorical Association, Kimmel Center, NYU, NYC; Victoria University, Ferenzi Conference, Toronto, Canada; The Psychoanalysis and Science Conference, Talinn, Estonia.
2013-14 “Understanding the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain: referencing the work of Eric Kendall.” Creativity & Transformation Committee, (NYSSCSW)
2004 “Symbol Formation in Healing: Depressive Personality Structure, A Case Study,” (NYSSCSW) Syracuse, New York
2002 “Creativity and Creative Process: A Remedy for Healing,” Intercare, NY
2001 “Aesthetic Communication,” National Association of Social Workers, NY
2000 “Manic Depression and Art,” Locus Media Gallery Symposium, Soho, NYC

The New York City Art Teachers Association Annual Conferences:

1995. “Aesthetic Communication;”
1994 “Arts Resources, An Interpersonal Approach;”
1993 “The Business of Marketing Your Art,”
1992 “When Advice is Not Enough;”
1991 “From Feeling to Articulation,”
1990 “The Arts and the Creative Unconscious,” The Psychotherapy Center, Prague.

Abbreviated list of debts of gratitude:

Being a native New Yorker. Accompanying my grandfather to museums and religious services.
Anthropology I at the University of Michigan. The study of dance and movement with Blanche Evan, dance therapy pioneer, Olga Ley and Naomi Goldberg Haas, Dances for a Variable Population.
Samuel Breecher, my first art teacher and my grandmother who supported my creative vision