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Opening reception: Thursday March 13, 6-9 PM
Part of Three Related Exhibitions curated by Lawrence Rinder
These three related exhibitions explore form as vehicle for imaginative experience. The artists here use form as a provocation to attention and as an armature for understanding. Abstract as they are, these works are not simply self-referential but rather allude to conditions and capacities of the mind.
The Tantric drawings shown here-which are from the collection of poet Franck André Jamme-were made anonymously as an aid to meditative practice. The forms and colors in these works are not unique but rather highly conventional signs that have evolved for over a thousand years both to signify and to stimulate specific mental and spiritual experiences. Dhyana is a Sanskrit word for deep meditation and as such could be used to describe not only this exhibition but the two concurrent shows as well.
