Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010 in Paris at 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Location: Galerie Vivendi – Google Map
Address: Galerie Vivendi – 28 place des Vosges Paris
Opening reception of Krista Bard’s exhibition: SACRED WORDS, works on paper
Come and see Krista Bard’s works. Krista is part of EuroCircle New York and Philadelphia and is exhibiting SACRED WORDS, works on paper.
Krista Bard is a Philadelphia-based artist whose collection “Sacred Words” is a series of metaphysical works on paper created as meditative lenses to focus our awareness.
Bard draws on the power of words and the language of world religions to create new symbols in her own iconic script, raising awareness of the m…eaning and energy of each word.
The works are all prayers, either conveying secular inspiration or interfaith supplications. Bard works in ink and oil pastels on paper that she treats with ancient, biblical and essential oils including frankincense, myrrh, spikenard and Lourdes Holy Water.
While working, she plays sacred music from around the world, calibrating and utilizing sound to assist her meditation with Arvo Part, Mozart, the Koran, Mark Kelso, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Lithuanian Romuva chants, among some.
Sacred Words” is inspired by “Messages from Water” by Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto, “Power vs. Force” by Dr. David R. Hawkins, and “Verkehrt Herum” by neuropsychologist Dr. Kurt Ebert.
COMMENTS :
Alexandra Munroe, curator, Guggenheim Museum, New York:
“The beauty of her work lies beyond the meditative trace of her liturgical prose inscribed in small writing over large expanses of paper. The paper ground has no lines, no borders. It is colored with dabs of paint – shades of blue, orange, yellow – that were made while the paper was wet, leaving pale traces, like halos in a spring rain.
The composition, seemingly so slight, makes the whole page float in a deep, sightless space. That space is where I’d been, and where I need to go to be reminded of my new dimension of humanity“.
Daniel Patrick, New York Social Diary: “Her work is terrific”.
The Palm Beach Daily News: “Uplifting and mystical “.
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