Latest temporary art exhibits on display at IND
Local artists featured in installations including digital media, ceramics, and painting
A new rotation of temporary art has arrived at the Indianapolis International Airport (IND). Part of the Indianapolis Airport Authority’s (IAA) dynamic temporary art program, the exhibits are on display in the main ticketing hall and Concourse B. IND’s temporary art program introduces innovative new works, primarily from artists with ties to the local community, to the airport space while complementing the IAA’s robust permanent art collection. The latest exhibits, which will be on display through February 9, 2014, include:
MELISSA PARROTT QUIMBY – LINEAR VESSELS
Indianapolis-based Melissa Parrott Quimby has been working in ceramics for the past 22 years. She primarily uses clay to intuitively express her ideas in response to her environment. She is inspired by pattern, color, line, shape, texture, and form and is motivated by the nature of the material.
Her current body of work, represented by the Linear Vessels installation in the south Ticket Hall exhibition case, starts with abstract line drawings on clay, which are formed into rough vessel shapes of various colors and sizes and arranged in groups. These objects create an imaginary landscape that is also a set of unique three dimensional drawings. The microscopic detail lures the viewer into the sculptures for a closer look and deeper enjoyment. An intimate, personal scale is used to build each piece, which captures the forms in a specific moment of time.
In addition to pursuing her own work, Quimby teaches at the Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, and is a member of the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).
ARTUR SILVA - COMFORT
Artur Silva was born and raised in Belo Horizonte City, Brazil, and moved to the United States in 1996, coming to Indianapolis in 2001. His instantly-recognizable digital montages are inspired by the history, music, movement, and colors of his homeland while bringing in imagery and patterns from cultures around the world.
Silva is interested in certain aspects of the American experience that are universal. Concepts of freedom and equality, despite being common to both Americas, have different connotations in Latin America due to its particular colonial history. Comfort, his piece on view in the north Ticket Hall exhibition case, explores the issue of action versus complacency and its cause and effect within the social realm.
Silva’s energetic work can be seen numerous places around Indianapolis, most notably as murals at the Alexander Hotel and on the train shed bridge at Union Station above Illinois Street. In addition to digital prints, murals and paintings, Silva also works in sculpture and video and is, with DJ Kyle Long, the force behind Indianapolis-based Cultural Cannibals, a world beat clothing, music, and event company.
MICHAL LILE – STRATA
Indianapolis-based painter Michal Lile primarily works with acrylic and mixed media on Russian birch panels. His work, a selection of which is on view in the Concourse B exhibition case, combines shapes, textures, fields of color, and graphic marks into abstract arrangements that direct the viewer through a range of emotions representative of the human experience. He often “activates” the spaces between the paintings through the use of blue painters’ tape, which he applies in order to extend the painting’s imagery without creating a new physical object. Although the works are mostly non-objective – they do not resemble forms or objects in our visible world– one of Lile’s favorite allusions is to clouds, which have captivated his imagination since he was a young boy growing up just two and a half miles east of the original airport terminal.
With degrees in visual art and art education, Lile is a former art teacher and department chairperson, and now an administrator, at Ben Davis High School on Indianapolis’ west side. In addition to painting, Lile enjoys working with words; his paintings and his writings influence each other
About the Indianapolis Airport Authority The Indianapolis Airport Authority owns and operates Indiana’s largest airport system. In addition to the Indianapolis International Airport, its facilities include the Downtown Heliport, Eagle Creek Airpark, Hendricks County Airport, Indianapolis Regional Airport, and Metropolitan Airport. IND has received numerous prestigious awards recognizing it as a leader within its class, including best airport in North America in 2010 and 2012 in Airports Council International’s annual Airport Service Quality awards. IND is the first airport in the U.S. to win LEED® certification for an entire terminal campus, and the airport has won recognition for excellent customer service, concessions programs, and art and architecture.
IND’s economic impact in Central Indiana is more than $4.5 billion annually, and about 10,000 people work at the airport each day. IND serves more than 7 million business and leisure travelers each year and averages 136 daily flights to 34 nonstop destinations. Home of the world's second-largest FedEx Express operation and the nation’s eighth-largest cargo facility, IND is committed to becoming the airport system of choice for both passenger and cargo service. For more information, visit IND’s Facebook page at Indianapolis International Airport and Twitter page at @INDairport.