Today we finished hanging my paintings at the show at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, Spirit and Form.
These pictures are an overview of a portion of the Gallery. The large painting, "Fragmentation and Wholeness" is large -- 9 feet by 12 feet.
You can also see one of the "Clear Light" paintings and one of Meech Miyagi's fantastic sculptures.
The show is now open and the artist's reception is September 17th, 6-9.
But good news does come in multiples. I have just learned that I am a finalist for the Sacramento Arts and Business Council's award for "Artist of the Year". I can't express how flattered I am to have been nominated and to become a finalist!
Two of my paintings based upon The Tibetan Book of the Dead --
From a summary of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Stanislav Grof:
"Stage one of the Bardo, the bardo of dying, begins at death and extends from half a day to four days. This is the period of time necessary for the departed to realize that they have dropped the body. The consciousness of the departed has an ecstatic experience of the primary "Clear Light" at the death moment. Everyone gets at least a fleeting glimpse of the light. The more spiritually developed see it longer, and are able to go beyond it to a higher level of reality. The average person, however, drops into the lesser state of the secondary "clear light."
"In stage two, the bardo of Luminous Mind, the departed encounters the hallucinations resulting from the karma created during life. Unless highly developed, the individual will feel that they are still in the body. The departed then encounters various apparitions, the "peaceful" and "wrathful" deities, that are actually personifications of human feelings and that, to successfully achieve nirvana, the deceased must encounter unflinchingly. Only the most evolved individuals can skip the bardo experience altogether and transit directly into a paradise realm. Stage three, the bardo of rebirth, is the process of reincarnation."
I will be having an exhibit of my abstract paintings in a show entitled "Spirit and Form", at the beautiful Blue Line Gallery in Roseville beginning September 9th. The Blue Line Gallery is in downtown Roseville near City Hall, 405 Vernon Street (phone: 916-783-4117).
The opening reception will be September 17th and I will be there along with my partner in crime, Meech Miyagi, whose three dimensional work is fantastic! See one of his works in the image above, which is from the invitation.
Please feel free to come by the Gallery either on opening night 6:00 to 9:00, or Tuesday through Saturday 10-3 beginning September 9th.
