A Particular Kind of Heaven
Karma presents A Particular Kind of Heaven, an exhibition of nearly one-hundred-and-twenty works spanning multiple disciplines by over seventy artists, on view at 70 Main Street, Thomaston, Maine, July 21 through September 1, 2024.
A Particular Kind of Heaven presents a wide array of empyrean imagery by a multigenerational group of artists. Sited in a deconsecrated Catholic church, the exhibition probes connections between the spiritual and the natural, the everyday and the sublime. While the near-universal motif of the sky unites the expansive contributions on view, the representation of this subject morphs and multiplies to span pictorial fealty, surrealist interpretation, lyrical rumination, narrative landscapes, geometric and gestural abstractions, three-dimensional works made of sweetgrass and post-consumer paper, and more. A Particular Kind of Heaven is titled after a 1983 Ed Ruscha text painting that calls attention to the idiosyncratic nature of our visions of the sublime and our projections about and on to the American landscape. The exhibition proceeds from dawn to dusk, following the transformation of the sky over the course of a day.
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Karma presents A Particular Kind of Heaven, an exhibition of nearly one-hundred-and-twenty works spanning multiple disciplines by over seventy artists, on view at 70 Main Street, Thomaston, Maine, July 21 through September 1, 2024.
A Particular Kind of Heaven presents a wide array of empyrean imagery by a multigenerational group of artists. Sited in a deconsecrated Catholic church, the exhibition probes connections between the spiritual and the natural, the everyday and the sublime. While the near-universal motif of the sky unites the expansive contributions on view, the representation of this subject morphs and multiplies to span pictorial fealty, surrealist interpretation, lyrical rumination, narrative landscapes, geometric and gestural abstractions, three-dimensional works made of sweetgrass and post-consumer paper, and more. A Particular Kind of Heaven is titled after a 1983 Ed Ruscha text painting that calls attention to the idiosyncratic nature of our visions of the sublime and our projections about and on to the American landscape. The exhibition proceeds from dawn to dusk, following the transformation of the sky over the course of a day.
Artists on show
- Albert York
- Alex Katz
- Alice Rahon
- Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato
- Andrew Cranston
- Anh Tr岷
- Ann Craven
- Barkley Hendricks
- Calvin Marcus
- Carole Vanderlinden
- David Byrd
- David Edward Byrd
- Dike Blair
- Donald Moffett
- Ed Ruscha
- Francis Picabia
- Gertrude Abercrombie
- Hadi Fallahpisheh
- Henni Alftan
- Hirosuke Tasaki
- Hughie Lee-Smith
- Inka Essenhigh
- Jacob Littlejohn
- James Prosek
- Jane Dickson
- Jeremy Frey
- Joe Bradley
- Jonas Wood
- Joseph Yoakum
- Katherine Bradford
- Kathryn Lynch
- Keith Mayerson
- Leon Xu
- Lois Dodd
- Louise Bourgeois
- Luigi Zuccheri
- Lynne Mapp Drexler
- Magdalena Frimkess
- Maja Ruznic
- Manoucher Yektai
- March Avery
- Marian Spore Bush
- Marley Freeman
- Mathew Cerletty
- Matthew Tully Dugan
- Matthew Wong
- Maureen Gallace
- Melanie Essex
- Milton Avery
- Mungo Thomson
- Nancy Diamond
- Nathanaëlle Herbelin
- Nathaniel Oliver
- Nicolas Party
- Nicole Wittenberg
- Norman Zammitt
- Peter Bradley
- Rafael Delacruz
- Randy Wray
- Reggie Burrows Hodges
- Richard Mayhew
- Robert Gober
- Salvo
- Sanaa Gateja
- Sean Cavanaugh
- Seth Becker
- Tabboo!
- Tamo Jugeli
- Tom Burckhardt
- Trevor Shimizu
- Ugo Rondinone
- Ulala Imai
- Verne Dawson
- Walter Price
- Will Gabaldón
- Woody de Othello
- Xiao Jiang
- Yu Nishimura
- Yvonne Jacquette
- Zenzaburo Kojima
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