What we see changes us.
- by Ben Fank Moss, image courtesy of Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle WA
Through the amazing fiery fall foliage, we drove last weekend to attend a solo show for Ben Frank Moss at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. It was appropriately called "Immanence and Revelation", in reference to inner reflection as his source. We viewed about 70 paintings and drawings.
As Bruce Herman, painter, reflects,
...there is always a place for meditation on the beauty and significance of the natural world. In Moss's work, paint is a palpable metaphor for space, for light, for substance.
Ben's work illuminates for me, the way that inner light and memory informs the way we see. I also believe that what we see can transform us, if we allow it. So take a inquiring, meditative look at his work, here, at Francine Seders Gallery and at the Hood Museum in Hanover, New Hampshire!
In his essay in the catalogue, Joshua Chuang wrote:
For Moss, art-making is an endeavor that requires the courage to hold still enough to reflect on life's vicissitudes and the willingness to work on the edge of failure. Because of this, whether endowed with the deep lush tones of charcoal the luminous hues and sensuous texture of oil paint, his art caries the layered history of a palimpset and the distilled intensity of personal revelation. His most succesful pieces exhibit the startling immediacy of a "held dream... a poetic gateway to an inner experience."
I am interested in your response to both his work and to his philosophy of creating that bridges between the visible world and the invisible world within!
