Golden "Love" For Our 6th Wedding Anniversary in Indiana

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Ernest Disney-Britton

Material: gold colored aluminum. Dimensions: 3h x 3w x 1.5"d at Indianapolis Museum of Art

Christian artists have long represented God's love with the color "gold", and so I picked Robert Indiana's "Love" in gold as Greg's gift for our sixth wedding anniversary (our first date was his church in Indianapolis). Robert Indiana's original LOVE is in the permanent collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Opening Valentine's Day weekend, The Essential Robert Indiana exhibition premieres in the artist's home state now engaged in a legislative battle over "same love." It is a show that features more than 50 of his works, including 20 from the IMA’s own collection. Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, but today lives in the marriage equality state of Maine where love is golden.

Indianapolis Museum of Art: "The Essential Robert Indiana" (February 16-May 4, 2014); 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, Indiana; 317-923-1331; imamuseum.org