Penske Projects | Montecito Country Mart 1014G Coast Village Road, Montecito, CA 93108
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 11AM - 4PM
Penske Projects is pleased to present A Peripheral Reverie - a group exhibition of twenty-two artists portraying moments, locations, figures, or artist’s themselves to grasp at windows to spirituality, joy, humor, and reflection. The exhibition seeks to offer a time and place for a moment of reprieve and release amidst the important and radical times we are all currently living in.
Creative pursuit and practice functions as an enlightening tool for reflecting one’s internal dialogue. ///
Through this practice, it is the artist who continues to travel into the path of healing through expression. The selected works introduce us to a piece of the artist themselves, people they love, places they cherish, and emotions experienced. This effective essence of personal impression is present in these drawings and paintings, and looks to imbue others with a like-feeling of the artist’s personal Zen. Members of the Eastern philosophy claimed that Zen translated to an image-less state, however, the difficulty of achieving Zen, often and accordingly demanded that visual aid be employed. For an artist, the act of producing work to achieve a restorative state or explore the deep interior of one’s emotions can be a compulsory form of survival. In an effort to stay focused and take advantage of this time, it is paramount that the individual human condition be respected and tended to. The outlets discovered in these works strive to achieve reflection amidst moments of uncertainty, leading the viewer to a parallel experience of contemplation and appreciation.
By summoning ourselves to artwork as a brief reverie from trying times, we allow the mind to wander, explore, encounter, reflect, and rehabilitate. In viewing these works, we hope to offer a gaze into the imagination of artists as a path to contemplation and healing during difficult times.
Heather Benjamin
Marius Bercea
Elana Bowsher
Ross Caliendo
Jackson Casady
Delphine Desane
Nasim Hantehzadeh
Max Jansons
Minami Kobayashi
Becky Kolsrud
Kira Maria
Maysha Mohamedi
Katherina Olschbaur
Umar Rashid
Caris Reid
Jenny Sharaf
Sissòn
Kenneth Taylor
Masami Teraoka
Honor Titus
Jess Valice
Sarah Ann Weber
Curator: Sophia Penske & Alex Rojas
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