After 50 years as an artist, Leonard Contino has generated a compelling body of work that, according to Rose, places him as «a visionary artist, in the tradition of Kupka, Klee, Kandinsky and such Americans as Dove and Hartley who «saw art as a kind of spiritual meditation on cosmic phenomena.» (mitchellalgusgallery.com)
«Effect of Different Meditation Types on Migraine Headache Medication Use,» an article recently published in Behavioral Medicine, examines whether or not, and to what extent, a combination of spiritual meditation and migraine medication affects analgesic medication usage. (sciencedaily.com)
Depicting hopeful prayers that the artist wrote by hand and then transferred to canvas or had woven into carpets by artisans, the Prayer Rugs merge Mr. Bleckner's own spiritual meditations with his creative sensibility. (observer.com)