by Sharon Gill and Monica Sosaya Halford
About the Art
The icon is an image which depicts Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the
angels or saints, Church feasts or teachings, or an event taken
from the Bible or from Church history. The icon is closely
identified with the liturgical and spiritual background of the
Orthodox Christian Churches and other Eastern Churches.
Santo is the term which describes Christian images
particular to the colonial Spanish Catholics of New Mexico and
northern Mexico of the late-18th through the early-20th
centuries.
Santera, Monica Sosaya Halford, is from Santa Fe, New
Mexico. Santos painted by her are part of the
Albuquerque Museum, the New Mexico Folk Art Museum, and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in Santa Fe, NM.
Iconographer, Sharon Gill, is from South Bend, Indiana. Her work
can be found at St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana; St.
Michael Ukranian Catholic Church, Mishawaka, Indiana; and the
Ephesus Museum, Turkey.
This exhibit also has been shown in 1996 at the Greater Lafayette
Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana; St. Francis College, Fort
Wayne, Indiana; National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows,
Bellville, Illinois; and Culver-Stockton College, Canton,
Missouri.
The show is curated by Michael Perigo of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Icons by Sharon Gill:
Santos by Monica Sosaya Halford:
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