Shea Gordon's Picnic
SHEA GORDON is the artist host for the June 2010 Picnic on Art Island.
We invite you to join us for dinner and lively studio conversation on Friday, June 18, 2010 at 6:00pm in Shea's studio at 1517 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108.
Dinner Menu Inspired by Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Cuisine:
Lamb Kebabs
Couscous
Grilled Vegetables
Homemade Hummus and Pita
Among other delights
Sliding Scale Pricing: $15 – $40.
To make a reservation email gallery@caraandcabezas.com or call 816.332.6239.
For Kansas City Limited Editions, Gordon has produced a new drawing to add to her alphabet series. The original drawing features the Tibetan alphabet set in a mandala. The print of the Tibetan Alphabet will be available for purchase on the evening of the picnic.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
From the essay Reweaving the World, 2004 by Jan Schall, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“Gordon believes that a masterful design informs and unites everything in the universe, that purpose and meaning are revealed to those who seek them. Her work conveys the nuances of that design, extricating the codes written into and onto all things: life, death, rebirth; space and time; the immanent and the transcendent.
The drawings, paintings, and sculptures [found in her studio] represent milestones in Gordon’s search for meaning, a search that led to the Dead Sea and, paradoxically, to the life that it signifies. Human life. The gold standard.
For Gordon, the Dead Sea is more than a body of saline water geographically situated in the country of Israel. It is the theory of everything. It is water that dehydrates. It is a sea within a desert. It lies within a holy land shattered by unholy conflict. Its waters evaporate, then fall as rain upon distant continents. It denies life, yet takes the form of a human embryo – head down, ready for emergence from a womblike hollow in the land, the lowest point on the earth at 1,340 feet below sea level.”
Written by Paulo Cabezas on June 09, 2010