“Mandala: Locus of Thought” Exhibition

Tibet House

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Tibet House US presents Mandala: Locus of Thought an exhibition exploring the mandala’s elemental form and union of the seemingly irreconcilable as a guide for reasoning. An ancient symbol of the universe, the mandala is a visual aid to meditation. This exhibition explores the duality of the mandala—as both a locality and in abstract—through the work of fifteen contemporary artists. These New York City-based artists employ familiar geometry and architectural elements to represent the intangible.

In Arlene Shechet’s Flow Blue, blueprints of Buddhist stupas collapse the architectural lifespan from origin to ruin in the map of the mandala. The shape of the Buddhist monument proliferates in Brian Bulfer’s Sacred Exchange: trails of stupa silhouettes are silkscreened over a concentric, mandala-like image of a Thai storefront stocked with religious items. Drawing from the powerful symbolism of Tantric imagery, Stephen Mueller’s jewel-hued abstractions oscillate between broad planes of color and geometric volumes in the digital lexicon of gradients. Chromatic vibration attains physical presence in Fabienne Lasserre’s Are. Matt Jones’ cosmological tondo paintings are simultaneously dense with matter and portals to an infinite void.

Diving into parallel realities steeped in Hindu myth, Prithi Gowda’s film Televisnu follows a young woman’s odyssey through her own psychic landscape. Chuck Webster brings a signature palimpsestic application of paint to a visual language of metaphors at once recognizable and ambiguous, figurative and architectural. Artists featured include Alyssa Gorelick, Andrew Molleur, Arlene Shechet, Brian Bulfer, Chuck Webster, Fabienne Lasserre, Francesca Capone, Jeffrey Scott Mathews, Jenny Blumenfield, Lauren Smith, Matt Jones, Meredith Walker, Prithi Gowda, Steph Gonzalez-Turner and Stephen Mueller.

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