Group Exhibition: "Under One Sky"
Sparks Gallery Announces "Under One Sky", a celebration of Indigenous art, culture, and living tradition.
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Sparks Gallery is honored to announce its forthcoming exhibition, Under One Sky, a powerful celebration of Indigenous art from across the United States. This exhibition brings together contemporary works that honor the survival, resilience, and living traditions of Indigenous peoples, while reflecting the deep-rooted relationship between art, culture, and knowledge.
Under One Sky creates a shared space where the beauty and diversity of Native American art serves as both a living vessel of cultural wisdom and a platform for meaningful social reflection.
The exhibition centers on three core themes that reflect the depth and complexity of Indigenous experience:
Indigenous Survival and Resilience
Works in this section explore the enduring strength, adaptability, and flourishing of Indigenous communities despite historical and ongoing challenges. Artists reflect on stories of resilience, cultural reclamation, and the continuation and evolution of tradition.
Art as Knowledge
This theme highlights how artistic practices preserve, express, and transmit Indigenous knowledge systems across generations. The works embody connections between art, ceremony, Earth, family, and community, revealing how art serves as a keeper of memory, wisdom, and history.
The Seventh Direction
Rooted in Indigenous cosmology, the seventh direction represents spirit, inner awareness, and interconnectedness. Featured works explore this concept through narrative, symbolism, and abstraction, offering reflections on balance, unity, and the relationship between all living things.
Under One Sky is co-juried by Sonya Sparks, Owner and Chief Curator of Sparks Gallery (San Diego Cherokees), and Alessandra Moctezuma, Gallery Director and Professor of Art at San Diego Mesa College, where she leads the Museum Studies program and teaches courses in Chicano Art.
Michelle Kurtis Cole - Mapuche’s Gift
Samantha Hill - Medicine Moccasins
Daniel Marquez - Xochiquetzal