Suran Song, Rustbelt Reaganomics for Election Day, 2021. Gesso, paint, cardboard box, sundry shipping materials 54 x 54 inches
From 434 entries from 38 states and 4 countries, selected for 3rd Prize
National Collage Society 39th Annual Juried Exhibit
29 August – 30 September 2023
The Galleries at Kean University
Liberty Hall Academic Center
Union, New Jersey
Curated by Dr. Lynette A. Zimmerman
Jurors: Cynthia Behr, Jeff Katzin, Cory Peeke
All exhibition award winning works are also online HERE
Canvas-stele Seva-transmit, 2014.
Participatory painting on raw canvas.
100″ x 39.75″
Artist’s Special Statement about this work
Market Mixers: When Social and Market Norms Collide
Social Justice Art Conference 3/7/15
Join me Mar 7th at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies to talk more about how we can create art that shifts and equalizes our community. (I’ll be speaking!) The Keynote Speaker is Marit Dewhurst!
Mudra Flower Shower: Celandine (seeing and knowing one’s highest thoughts), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Chamomile (presencing sunlight, equanimity), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Baby Blue Eyes (restoring trust in the goodness of the world), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: California Wild Rose (catalyzing love for human life and the Earth), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Dandelion (alleviating muscle tension from over-striving), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Dogwood (healing physical body by expanding etheric body), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Echinacea (restoring intrinsic dignity to our relationship with humanity and the Earth), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Harebell (freedom from fear to sense the entire universe as home), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Pink Mimosa Mariposa Lily (finding the archetypal mother within), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Pink Mimosa (integrating soul and ego regardless of influences), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Monument: Collaborating Through Time, 2014.
This image is from a series of concepts I have devised with artifacts from various public institutions. It is part of a virtual proposal for the series.
Queens Museum Panorama of the City of New York.
Raymond Lester & Associates, NY, NY 1961-63.
Flower mandalas made from light projected into hands wreathe the crown jewel of all tableaux for conceptualizing New York City. This series of mudra and flower images is meant to encompass the city in diorama as an offering of protection and love. The proposal is for the series Mudra Monument: Collaborating Through Time to happen simultaneously across the 5-boroughs.
