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Dates:
June 10 - July 31,
2010
Reception:
Thursday, June 10th, 6pm - 8pm
With a film performance by Raha Raissnia, sound by Charles Curtis.
"After the cursing comes
laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead."
-
Carl Gustav Jung, The Red Book
This exhibition intends to examine and expose
individual works of art in relation to theosophy, sacred tradition and
devotional practice. From William Blake's illuminated works of divine
imagination to Carl Gustav Jung's drawings of collective symbolic unconscious,
the visual is undoubtedly an integral creative tool for reaching, exploring,
animating and pervading the indefinable spaces beyond body and mind.
The artists in this exhibition, some more explicitly
than others, sought after or seek spiritual truths through art making and employ
an almost fervent and reverent experimentation to their practice, one that is
both ritualistic and against the grain. This mystic behavior is what defines the
show; the persistence on new and unorthodox visual experimentation reaches
beyond the worldly sphere to heightened states of consciousness.
This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the
generous contributions of William Breeze, Ordo Templi Orientis, Richard Metzger,
John Contreras, Scott Hobbs, David Brafman, William Swofford Cameron, Hetty
Maclise, and The Estate of Alfred
Jensen.
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