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| The Fullness of Being - 35" x 39" Acrylic on Paper, 2012 |
Dearest
Readers,
Ta-Da! Allow me to re-introduce The Fullness of Being, aka Wings3 a painting on paper that
first appeared in a blog of mine back on June 24, 2012.
For
a year I’ve been working on paintings of rising or surging shapes that have
morphed from wing imagery into more genuine depictions of something essential
that’s been bubbling inside…a flowing of contentment I think, within the
ups and downs, fears and joys of my life.
This painting recently appeared in a group show
entitled More at the Sellars Gallery, Brenau University in Gainesville,
Georgia, September 17-December 15 2013, sponsored by the Women’s Caucus for
Art-Georgia. The show title predisposed many of the visual works to be abstract or conceptual, and
open to interpretation on many levels. Below are a few of my favorites in the
exhibition.
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| Remnant 23-Maggie Davis, oil on canvas |
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| Remnant 24-Maggie Davis, oil on canvas |
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| Untitled 1,2, 3-Madeleine Soloway, ink on paper on board |
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| More Work To Do In The Garden-Angie Dachs, oil on canvas |
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| Enmeshed-Ann Rowles, mixed media crochet |
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| Help- Sarah Landrum - Mixed Media on panel |
A few words about this cool otherworldly venue…
Brenau is a small women’s liberal arts college founded
in 1878 as a Georgia Baptist women’s seminary, originally an institution for
the education of women to be teachers. The gallery is located inside the Simmons
Visual Arts Building, in a line of stately turn-of-the-last-century buildings
along Centennial Circle.
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| Sellars Gallery located inside the Simmons Visual Arts Center |
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| Centennial Circle with Simmons Visual Arts Center, near right |
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| Dorothy Smith Hopkins, Class of 1932 |
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I felt as if I had slipped through a wormhole back
to the early 1900’s. A portrait of Dorothy Smith Hopkins, Class of 1932 hung at
the side entrance to the gallery. Her significance to the college was not
explained, but I love her bubbly, debutante-ish persona, captured in this oil painting by Charles Naegele.
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| Dr. Thomas Simmons, & Lessie Southgate Simmons, oil on canvas- A. Edmonds |
Oil portraits of two early
educators, Dr. Thomas Simmons, former president and teacher & Lessie
Southgate Simmons former teacher and the building's namesake hang near the door.
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| Pearce Auditorium lobby-Brenau University |
A passageway connects the visual arts building to the
Pearce Auditorium, a space that seems suspended in time back to the turn of the
last century. When I visited, the building was well lit but devoid of sound and
people. Framed black and white photo-ghosts of women’s classes and
team pictures lined the the far wall, probably 100 years old.
Gainesville is known for its chicken processing
plants, but walking around Brenau opened me up to the possibility of a rich
historical layer to the city, population now at 34,000.
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| Kane in front of 60 portraits - Shambhala Center, Decatur GA |
My self-portrait series, “How Am I Feeling Today?” is
finishing a two-week run at the Shambhala Meditation Center of Atlanta. December
7-December 21, 2013. Three rows of 60 portraits of my changing feelings are
displayed in a variety of media and paper along a 23-foot wall in the
main Community Room. The Center is tucked behind a bamboo-bordered entrance way
at 1447 Church Street in Decatur, Georgia. Here are a few site shots from their
website.
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| Plaza-Shambhala Meditation Center of Atlanta |
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| Main Building-Shambhala Meditation Center of Atlanta |
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| Meditating in the Shrine Room-Shambhala Meditation Center of Atlanta |
