While at the American Academy in Rome in the visiting Artist and Scholar Program, the artist began research
on sacred geometry that continues to inform her work.
Mandalas are circular patterns based
on sacred geometry, often spiraling out from a central point in attractive patterns.
Not exact matches
In 1119 AD the Knights Templar excavated beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and found valuable scrolls of
sacred geometry and early writings
on Y «shua ben Yosef and Mariamne that stated they were MARRIED.
Kate Hoffman's Dream Home series, photographs taken from performative collage collaborations, has a malleable quality that emphasizes the viewer's own socio - political leanings; Samira Yamin's intricate patterns of Islamic
sacred geometries cut into TIME Magazine photos of war oscillate between greater ambiguity and flirting with the didactic depending
on the density of the cuttings; Sandra de la Loza's photographs of Stoner Spots underscore the politics of leisure through the exploration of pot - safe spaces, with a subtext of the not - quite - yet absorbed by development; Scott Short's «abstract» paintings replicate multiple generations of photocopying through the prism of Walter Benjamin; and Suzanne Wright will exhibit a deftly humorous Étant donnés-esque collage alongside mandala targets — each salves, in their respective forms, for our tumultuous zeitgeist.
The centerpiece of Parma - Smith's new show is Last Judgment (2016), a 25 - foot - wide, multi-panel painting with whole sections peeling tidily to reveal a solitary female figure or lush
sacred geometries beneath a seascape at sunset; also
on view is a series of smaller ink -
on - paper works.
For centuries, Western art and culture have relied
on principles of
sacred geometry,
on mysterious and archaic rules of proportion, maybe secretly.
Chrome plated in rose gold, the two fountains were cast in metal with a variation
on the «flower of life,» a pattern of eight-fold symmetry connected to
sacred geometry.
In The Cartographer's Conundrum, a large installation currently
on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), artist Sanford Biggers maps artistic, cultural and spiritual practices, other disciplines and fields such as Afrofuturism, music, and
sacred geometry.