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A Look Back: "Transfigured" A Contemporary Art Exhibit through the Liturgical Calendar

3/2/2018

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Photograph by Pastor Jacob Breeze, Holy Family HTX
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I hit the ground running into 2018. Finally at a real moment where I can breathe, I reflect on the beautiful layers of these January + February days. I have so much to celebrate + tell you about; where do I even begin?

At "Transfigured", of course! In early February, I held my first pop-up art show in partnership with Holy Family HTX. I was both the featured artist + curator. Just typing these words feels surreal.
When I first began my professional art journey in 2014, this never even played in my imagination. It is truly a dream I never even realized I was dreaming, and it all came true!
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My first highlight of the show was getting to experience it with Ciona, my sister. Visiting from Nashville, she got to see my studio for the first time + see my art work in person! Her poem, "Do the Crazy Thing," has been my studio mantra from the start, so it just felt right + a gift to have her here for one of the biggest moments thus far in my career.  

Another major highlight: standing in the space and finally getting to see all 9 of the paintings from the "Paraments" series on view. For a year I built this body of abstract work for the weekly public liturgy of Holy Family HTX. For a year, I wrestled with how to invite the community to live into liturgical rhythms through color, textures, graffito, and meditated marks, to experience the Christian story through these aspects of art. For a year, I studied and delved more into the intellectual history of color and how to let it best speak in this work. And there they all were--a year of work & liturgy on canvases in this one wonderful space.

Each piece reflects upon the eight liturgical seasons of the Christian Church and the sacrament of Baptism and has deliberate color choices. I also borrowed from the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi in this work, specifically its aesthetic emphasis on subtlety and the beauty of imperfection, impermanence, and “the aged.” I approached each 6ft x 6ft canvas individually even though I knew they represented a whole story together.
But I won't give you all the details of my process right now because another highlight (drumroll, please): we're creating a piece of art to tell the story of these pieces very soon. A book! I'm elated to be able to share this work with more of you in this way. Watch this space . . . more details on the book to come. 

I'll leave you with a final and special highlight of the night, which was sharing it with the the artists in the HFHTX Artist Collective. I invited each artist to create work that explores one of the liturgical seasons, specifically through a contemporary lens. Their work, thought-provoking + profoundly beautiful, interacted with the "Paraments" series so perfectly and added to the contemplative nature of the show. I am honored + grateful to share in this moment with each of them. 

Check out some of their art:
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Art Photography by Thomas Parker
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Art installation by Ellen Cline
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Short Film installation by Chap Edmonson
As you can see, 2018 set an enormously high bar so far. I'm humbled + also confident it will continue to surprise + delight me.

Thanks to everyone who came out to engage our art. 

Special thanks to Holy Family HTX for partnering with me to make space for art to happen + to speak in spaces where all can hear. 
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Click the names below to learn more about the creative journeys + work of the artists who contributed to "Transfigured"

Lindi Bowman
Ellen Cline 
Vanessa DeYoung
Chap Edmonson
Mark Francis
Thomas Parker
Abbie Preston
Alexandria Wallace
Shayne Warhol
Words + Photography by Lanecia A. Rouse Tinsley. Edited by Ciona D. Rouse.
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7/31/2018 03:19:32 am

I've attended a contemporary art exhibit before, and I truly had fun because of it! I never thought I could enjoy such moment because I used to enjoy parties and events before. Art exhibit was a strange idea for me before  it all happened. Now, I've been craving for these things and I am so much willing to travel with ny fellow art exhibit goers and explore the world of art. This is going to be exciting for sure!

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