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Sunday, November 15, 1-4pm
Alameda 6, San Antonio
free/gratuito
Beauty as a concept has been defined and redefined in the art world for centuries. Beauty in art assigns value and importance to particular images. Archeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art. Many of these creations are expressions of nature.
There is the beauty of nature present in the opening of the morning glory and the closing of the evening sunset. When art interplays with nature we have a sumptuous match. Two artists, Shahastra Levy and Kathleen Cammarata, explore this relationship in their drawings and mixed media work.
In her drawings Levy asks who was Eve by herself wandering the Garden of Eden with no other thoughts but her own? As she made her way through wild meadows, immersed her senses in the beauty of the leaf and flower, how did she perceive her life and what intuitive thoughts came to her? And as she encountered the serpent, symbol of desire, why wouldn’t she as a curious human being, recognize new thoughts arising? And why wouldn’t she have wanted to taste the tantalizing fruit of the Knowledge of the Tree of Duality? Using colored paper and colored pencils Levy revisits this mistold story showing Eve as an innocent and vulnerable human deeply curious about her outer and inner world.
In her mixed media works Cammarata employs the headdress as a marker of honor and spirituality. Her female figures are adorned with elaborate head pieces of leaves and flowers sprouting and cascading from their crowns. Some of the figures’ arms and legs wear leaves and the shoulders and faces have clouds. A series of pieces have Mary Oliver poems on their torsos that refer to irises, roses, hyacinths and tulips. The work is inspired by Oliver’s poem called “The Leaf and the Cloud.”
Levy has been creating art for 50 years as a designer for her own company and as an author/illustrator and in the fine arts.
Cammarata has also been an artist for 50 years. She taught in two museums and was the printmaking professor at Mass Lowell. She has had numerous solo shows the most recent at the Museo de Arte de Queretaro.
The drawings can be seen at Alameda 6, Colonia San Antonio on Sunday, Nov, 15 from 1 to 4 pm.
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