"Sacred Vision, Separate Views: Contemporary Perspectives in Buddhist Art" Exhibition
Tibet House
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Tibet House US has announced an exciting new multimedia art exhibit, Sacred Vision, Separate Views: Contemporary Perspectives in Buddhist Art, which will run December 6, 2012, through February 1, 2013. It is free for the public to attend.
For the first time, the Tibet House US will present paintings, drawings, videos, sculptures, installations and live performance art, as six New York City-based artists present modern takes on Buddhist traditions and teachings. Artists James Walton Fox, Valley Burke Fox, Shigeru Oyatani, E. Elizabeth Peters, Wesley Simon, and Jayoung Yoon approach their spiritual journeys through multiple mediums that come together to represent confluence, compromise or conflict in the journey toward enlightenment. A portion of all sales will benefit Tibet House US and its ongoing work to preserve and present Tibetan culture.
The exhibit’s opening reception will be held on December 6th from 6-8pm ET. At 7pm ET, artist Jayoung Yoon will present a special installation and live performance Clearing The Mind, based on the Zen concept of living in the moment. She will employ a number of balls made of human hair that represent attached memories and thoughts. Throughout the meditative performance, which will be accompanied by a Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) played by Zachary Skinner, Ms. Yoon will perform an intimately quiet and slow process of cutting the connection and emptying the thoughts, inviting the audience to capture the past and cleanse their accumulated memories.
The following day, December 7th, from 4-9pm ET, artists Wesley Simon and Valley Burke Fox will present A Line in Space, a contemporary interpretation of traditional Tibetan sand drawing. Through the simple actions of drawing a straight line with sand and sweeping it away, the artists explore the cyclical nature of creation and destruction and the Buddhist doctrinal belief of the transitory nature of material life.
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from December 06, 2012 to February 01, 2013
December 7th, from 4-9pm ET, artists Wesley Simon and Valley Burke Fox will present A Line in Space, a contemporary interpretation of traditional Tibetan sand drawing.
Opening Reception on 2012-12-06 from 18:00 to 20:00
At 7pm ET, artist Jayoung Yoon will present a special installation and live performance Clearing The Mind, based on the Zen concept of living in the moment.