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LOS ANGELES – The Philosophical Research Society is pleased to present a group exhibition co-curated by Heidi Gustafson and Devon Deimler titled Feeding the Unseen: Remediations of Earth.
Spiritually-charged rocks, soil, metal, and pigment. Intimate acts of alchemy. Renewed cultural practices. Remediations of earth with earth. Elemental magic. The artists of Feeding the Unseen critically engage the metamorphic gravity of living on a mortal planet.
Viewers are invited to witness and absorb artworks that transmute and transform lost, traumatized, or toxic matters: a hermetically sealed weapon slowly dissolving into black ink by alchemists Thomas Little and Dylan Kehde Roelofs; a film of Māori artist Sarah Hudson as she becomes “rocks in all forms”; a sacred drawing in blood by Samurai-descendent Yuri Shimojo in collaboration with ink-maker Jason Logan; a heart-centered sculpture made with ritual white dirt by East African artist Valerie Piraino; honorific rip-rap from nuclear containment sites by geochemist Dr. Morgan Williams; an empowering Tibetan Buddhist treasure vase from His
Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche’s lineage by Treasure of Abundance, and other potent and auspicious offerings.
Works by: Camas Logue, Sarah Hudson, Valerie Piraino, Onya McCausland, Charles Simonds and Rudy Burckhardt, Yuri Shimojo and Jason Logan, Kelley O’Leary, Morgan Williams, Treasure of Abundance, Alana Siegel, Maru García, Marilú Ríos Guerrero, Heidi Gustafson, Thomas Little and Dylan Kehde Roeloefs, Tilke Elkins and Wild Pigment Project, Charles Deimler, and Corwin Fergus.
Feeding the Unseen’s opening reception will include a curators’ dialogue, titled “Rocks in our Heads,” between artist Heidi Gustafson and PRS Contributing Scholar Devon Deimler. Book of Earth by Heidi Gustafson also celebrates its LA debut on this occasion (author will be available for book signings and copies will be available for purchase).
Supported by The Art of Soil
The Philosophical Research Society is a Los Angeles-based, nonprofit institution founded in 1934 by scholar and prolific author Manly Palmer Hall as a repository of multicultural wisdom sources and a center of learning. With a campus designed by architect Robert Stacy-Judd and later designated a historical-cultural site by the city of Los Angeles, PRS is “dedicated to the ensoulment of all arts, sciences, and crafts.”
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