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IM'AGO PRIMORDIALIS exhibition at Krab Jab Studio, Seattle USA

15/12/2015

IM'AGO PRIMORDIALIS exhibition at Krab Jab Studio, Seattle USAPicture

July 9 - September 3, 2016
Artists' reception:
July 9, 2016, 6-9 PM
Krab Jab Studio
5628 Airport Way S. Suite 150
Seattle, USA

Artworks by :
Brigid Marlin, Peter Gric, Iain Whittaker, Roku Sasaki, Tomasz Alen Kopera, Steven Kenny, Liba W. Stambollion, Igor Grechanyk, Martina Hoffmann, Amanda Sage, Autumn Skye Morrison, Susannah Martin, Andrew Gonzalez, Otto Rapp, Forest Rogers, Jean Pronovost, Miguel Tio, Benjamin Vierling, Jeff Mihalyo, Don Farrell, Yvette Endrijautzki, William Fahey and Bryan K. Ward.

Curated by : Don Farrell, in association with Krab Jab Studio

"Knowing doesn't reside in the knower,
nor does truth in what is known,
but in between."
- "A Mystical Epistemology", Peter Reason

Mystery has been banished; everything must be defined. And yet, while analytical thought bestows many gifts upon civilization, we remain insatiable. As if the unknown, itself, is the very ferment of community, humility, love....and life.

Embracing mystery as a source of inspiration, Fantastic Realists from around the world present this exhibition of numinous, visionary art - to reawaken feeling and intuition marginalized in today's cynical analyses.

Like the mystical traditions of countless cultures, their works assign symbols to The Unknowable, reaching through the ephemeral illusion we have come to know as reality, to an underlying, timeless, spiritual narrative. Universal mythology is interpreted with vivid imagination, and masterful technique renders it believably real.

Beneath the veil of seeming, an intuitive, visual language suggests that we are all part of something glorious, yet unrevealed. Fulfillment reflects from mystery in the primordial image, encouraging us to find, within ourselves, a unique understanding beyond the grasp of intellect...a feeling of connection...our own personal harmony with an ancient melody that is often unheard amidst the dissonance of perpetual immediacy.

I will be showing my drawing SPIRAL RAPTURE II

This Blog has been updated June 2016
to feature posters produced for this show:

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LUSO - AMERICAN SURREALISM of the 21st Century: Mississippi State, MS

10/12/2015

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click ▲ to open, save and/or download large poster pdf file

Surrealism Now in United States,
Mississippi State University,
Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, MSU Welcome Center.

Artists: American : Jay Garfinkle, France Garrido, Joe MacGown, Kd Matheson, Patrick V. McGrath Muñiz, Shahla Rosa, Olga Spiegel. Portuguese : Santiago Ribeiro, Paula Rosa, Victor Lages, Francisco Urbano.
Additionally, we will have several Mississippi artists exhibiting including Laurie Burton, Ben Grace, Brad Luke, Joseph MacGown, Randi Watson, and Gerard Woods.

During the exhibition, we will also display a huge surrealistic, collaborative pen drawing that features the work by several artists from multiple US states and other countries. Artists who contributed to the drawing include Joe A. MacGown, Ben Tolman, Joseph H. MacGown, Julianne MacGown, Chloe Marsters, Marnie Pitts, Otto Rapp, Paulo Cunha, Pizo Meyer, Ryan Thornburg, Zachary Nolin, Marcel Bakker, Deborah Valentine, and Alex Bostic.

Support for this exhibition has come from:
Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art and Design
Holmes Cultural Diversity Center
Chalet Arts, Starkville, MS

click the invitation for the opening ►

Cullis Wade Depot Gallery is located above the welcome center at the Barnes and Noble building on the Mississippi State campus.

Exhibition from January 21 to February 19, 2016.

UPDATE from the Exhibition:
Joe MacGown in front of our collective work Antipodes at the exhibition

Joe MacGown in front of our collective work Antipodes at the exhibition LUSO - AMERICAN SURREALISM of the 21st Century: Mississippi State, MS

Artists who contributed to the drawing include Joe A. MacGown, Ben Tolman, Joseph H. MacGown, Julianne MacGown, Chloe Marsters, Marnie Pitts, Otto Rapp, Paulo Cunha, Pizo Meyer, Ryan Thornburg, Zachary Nolin, Marcel Bakker, Deborah Valentine, and Alex Bostic.

photos courtesy of Joe MacGown

UPDATE:
more about this, plus a zoomable image of the complete panel on my drawing page ANTIPODES

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Fantastic Art by my Friends

4/12/2015

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I am relatively new to Pinterest - since I started using this service, I had created a board where I share the work of my artist friends - check it out:

I have other boards also, you can see them here:
Art of the Mystic Otto Rapp on Pinterest

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