SAMA's 'Envisioning the Hindu Divine' offers new understandings of an ancient faith

The San Antonio Museum of Art’s spring exhibition blends the ancient and the modern in exploration of breathtaking imagery that’s sacred to more than a billion people. “Envisioning the Hindu Divine: Expanding Darshan and Manjari Sharma” combines nine large-scale photos by India-born and now U.S.-based visual artist Sharma. She created the colorful and breathtaking images — which depict nine of the Hindu pantheon’s most-recognizable gods — by costuming people and outfitting them with props often associated with the individual deities.