Philip Slein Gallery: Friday, 17 November 2017

Jackie Saccoccio, Portrait (Fox), 2016, oil and mica on linen, 57x45"

PHILIP SLEIN GALLERY
THE SPIRIT OF ABSTRACTION
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 5-8 PM 
November 17 through December 22, 2017

Ever since the days of Kandinsky, the spiritual in art has been a subject of interest to abstract artists--to all those who seek a path beyond the physical--those who, in the words of Yeats, "live for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like a terrible lightning."

The Philip Slein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of some of those artists, including Alison Hall, whose Book of Beginnings is a small black diptych on panel about the size of a book; and Louis Cameron, whose digitally manipulated photos of clouds evoke the 14th-century Christian mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guidebook on contemplative prayer.

Another spiritual guide, the Kabbalah, continues to inspire Robert Sagerman, for whom painting is a meditative practice. Likewise, for Valerie Jaudon, painting is a slow, deliberate accumulation of brushstrokes within patterns inspired by Islamic art. John Zinsser continues his Zen-like search for satori in painting, while Richmond Burton channels the spirit of Christian Rosenkreutz in his painting, I AM Rosicrucian.

Other artists in the show include Brandon Anschultz, Lori Ellison, Douglas Melini, Ann Pibal, Jackie Saccoccio, Gary Stephan, and Dan Walsh.

PHILIP SLEIN GALLERY  

4735 McPherson Ave 

St. Louis, MO 63108 

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