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Title:	Painted Reflections: Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery
Date:	2/6/2022 - 3/12/2023
Address:	The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505,
Location:	Santa Fe, NM
Hours:	10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Cost/Cover:	Free - $9
Web Page:	https://miaclab.org/upcoming-exhibitions&eventid=4916
Contact Info:	505/476-1269

Details:

Painted Reflections?emphasizes the sophisticated aesthetic qualities of Pueblo art through the study of reversible optical illusions and ambiguous figure-ground relationships. Beginning around 900 AD, Ancestral Pueblo artists began producing new designs on their ceramics—they painted pairs of motifs called isomers, or equal forms. From a conventional perspective, these works appear as painted motifs on unpainted backgrounds. But simultaneously, they also appear as unpainted images on painted backdrops. The exhibition contextualizes isomeric design within larger artistic trends and trajectories, bridging the gaps between art history, anthropology, and archaeology, and includes examples of isomeric designs made by both ancestral and contemporary artists.?