Unbound Art

Join us for a gathering at Rasa Spa on  Thursday, October 4, from 5-7.  The Map is Not the Territory

Here is a picture of the installation that we did at Home Green Home, in Ithaca, on Gallery Night.  The little pieces of paper have environmental quotes on them.  I've listed them for you below. The installation was only up for the evening, but paintings, photographs and stone poems are still in the store.  Hope you will visit! We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.                                                                      Kurt Vonnegut A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.         ...

Last summer there were beautiful sunflowers in my garden and I got the urge to paint them. Painting outside and from life was quite a challenge and I ended up painting two pictures in the more manageable environment of my studio. Fernando has just framed 3 out of the 4 paintings for me and now they look very finished and ready to present.

Let me introduce you to "Our Lady of Sweeping Grace." She has been in the works for a long time, but it was only this week that elements that have been laying around the studio for years finally came together to give final form to her holiness. I am referring specially to the little broom and the two smaller assemblages at the right and left of her fossil feet that Kim Schrag made in 1995 and that she gave me (maybe 5 years ago) to incorporate into a stone poem of my choosing. Kim participated in the placement of her two elements into the general design of Our Lady, so this piece can be rightfully called a collaboration between us. Enjoy, and let us know if you want to take a closer look. BTW, these are the materials that went into the piece: stone from Taughannock creek, found metal, drift wood, fossils from Cayuga lake, and raw silk, in a lined cherry shadowbox

  “Natural Abstractions”   Fernando Llosa :  Oil paintings, Prints from Sumi ink paintings, and StonePoems   David Harper : Wood and mixed media sculpture   Carol Ackles : Ceramic bead jewelry   Edgewood Gallery 216 Tecumseh Rd. Syracuse, NY 13224   315-445-8111 edgewoodartandframe.com   Opening reception Friday June 29, 6:00-8:00 PM Exhibit dates: June 29 – Sept. 7 2012   Gallery hours: Tues. – Fri. 9:30 – 6:00, Sat. 10:00 – 2:00 The gallery will be closed the week of July 10 - 14

Exciting news!  My show, Inside Itself, was just featured on Non-Duality America .

Stone Poem to an Engaging Couple Check out what's new at Ithacamade. Gallery night is coming up on Friday.  You can see this stone poem by Fernando.