Alchemy Of Light
Event Details
- Who
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- What
- Exhibition
- Where
- Tibet House US Gallery
- When
- Thursday, May 12, 2011 At 06:00 PM
- How
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- Details
- Opening Reception: Thursday, May 12 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM | May 12 to June 22, 2011
About the Event
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 12 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM Alchemy of Light offers an investigation of consciousness, with light as its primary metaphor. Alchemy refers to Jung’s theories on the psychological process of transmutation through conflict. Conover works in the tradition of abstractionists like Malevich and Agnes Martin, viewing art as an investigation into reality’s unchanging core. Conover’s use of color evokes a complex state of sensual anticipation and symbiotic calm. The natural world serves as her inspiration. The paintings are constructed from the relationship between the light of physics and an inner light, or pure consciousness, both of which lie beyond space and time. ‘Light is a presence that illuminates and transcends representation. Of all sensory experience, the immediacy and raw intensity of light bonds me to my subject in moments of intense being.’ - Mary Conover ‘Light creates the world. It is the more subtle than gossamer substance of everything – ourselves, mind, speech, and body, all beings, visible and invisible, all universes, nebulae, galaxies, stars, solar systems, molecules, atoms, subatomic energies, inconceivable quanta and qualia. Itself it is the solid, the liquid, the fire and the moving wind, and all the beyond as well.’ - Robert A.F. “Tenzin” Thurman May 12 to June 22, 2011
