Sandra Indig

Biography

Sandra’s art practice includes dance, written expression., and psychoanalysis. Undergraduate studies include the University of Michigan and Syracuse University (BFA) and an internship at the Pratt Graphic Arts Center. After New York University Graduate School of Social Work (MSW) and the Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy, she completed an internship in Art Therapy at Rikers Island.

Sandra is an active member of the New York Artists’ Circle, The American Alliance of Museums, and Jewish Art Salon. She curated numerous exhibits and was a recipient of multiple art residences: MacDowell Art Colony, New Hampshire; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and Vermont Studio Center. She was nominated twice for the Gradiva® Award in the category of Art by the National Association of the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP).

Indig is a member of and has performed with Dances for a Variable Population at many of NYC’s most iconic spaces: Times Square, Washington Square Park, and The Highline.

Her writing career began with published articles in the Manhattan Arts International Magazine (Renee Phillips, editor), and continued with The Clinician and The Art League of Long Island and her chapter, Reclamation, and Restoration: Heroes in the Seaweed, Routledge press, Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Artist/Analyst.  ). Her latest book is Seeing Words/Hearing Images: The Artist’s Perspective, MindMend Publishing.

She founded and is chair of the Committee for Creativity & Neuro-Psycho- Education, New York State Society for Clinical Social Work.

Indig is an international presenter and lecturer on creativity, creative process, psychoanalysis, and post-traumatic growth.

Since the start of the pandemic, both her art and psychoanalytic practices specializing in working with people living with creativity and recovery have relocated to the West Village.

www.sindig.com psych4arts@hotmail.com

Artist statement

Sandra Indig self-identifies as an artist. Sandra the painter is committed to the business of cross-pollinating the fields of art and science. A lifetime of study and practice in the areas of creativity, creative process, and the ideas of psychoanalysis have resulted in her exhibiting, publishing, and lecturing both locally and internationally. Indig credits her ancestral teachers Soutine and Rothko with the knowledge that it is okay to make what is internal, and external. She learned it is possible to survive living as creatively as possible even if often feels like a life and death struggle. However, the reward is that creative acts form a cocoon for the imagination and a heart to hope with. Commenting on creativity and creative process, Indig recently said, “It is the best way I know to synthesize the cumulative experience of the life around me, tell my story, including the life of the unconscious and the spiritual”