Now available via GOOD DOCS, the Video Librarian says that Sheri Brenner's short documentary about Tibetan artist Tsherin Sherpa will "fascinate students of Tibetan art and culture because it shows the clear intersection of diaspora and artistic expression. Instructors of modern art may be particularly interested in this fascinating expose on Tsherin Sherpa because it can easily fit within a single class period. Students of Buddhism may be interested in Tsherin’s use of symbolism and his symbolic statements on the West’s ideas of divinity through a Buddhist lens. Highly Recommended."
Host a screening: 👉 https://bit.ly/43uIVmm
13th Gen's Marc Smolowitz is proud to be a consulting producer of ABOVE AND BELOW.
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month this month!
Mary Lum’s exhibition catalog entitled “Moving Parts (&)” is in-library use only at the Schlesinger Library, but we wanted to include this catalog because Lum’s beautiful exhibition is up at Harvard Radcliffe Institute through June 24th. We encourage you to visit her exhibition while it’s up!
For this exhibition, Mary Lum has created an artist’s book and installation featuring photographs of temporary constructions made from a palette of broken vintage letterforms. The exhibition catalog is also gorgeous.
Mary Lum : moving parts (&)
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, [2023]
HOLLIS number: 99156684077103941
*Schlesinger Library In-library use only
Ghost forest
Lin, Maya, 1959- [artist, interviewee}
New York : Madison Square Park Conservancy, [2021]
HOLLIS number: 99156668641703941
Zarina : paper like skin
Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, University of California; Munich: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2012
HOLLIS number: 990137311030203941
Ray Yoshida's Museum of Extraordinary Values
Sheboygan, Wisconsin : John Michael Kohler Arts Center, [2013]
HOLLIS number: 990139821660203941
Maya Lin : here and there
New York : Pace, [2013]
HOLLIS number: 990137085350203941
Tsherin Sherpa : spirits
Richmond, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [2022]
HOLLIS number: 99156624177103941
Ruth Asawa : citizen of the universe
London : Thames & Hudson Ltd ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2022.
HOLLIS number: 99156425913103941
Zhang Huan : altered states
New York : Asia Society ; Milano : Charta, 2007.
HOLLIS number: 990108885030203941
Do Ho Suh : works on paper : at STPI
Singapore : STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery ; New York : DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2021.
HOLLIS number: 99155779049803941
« Remittance Economy » (2018), par Tsherin Sherpa, artiste peintre originaire du Népal, vivant aux Etats unis, dont le travail navigue entre de l’iconographie bouddhiste tibétaine classique et le regard présent sur le monde, entre tradition et abstraction.
« À travers le prisme de la diaspora himalayenne, mon travail traite simultanément de la préservation et de la transformation d’une culture dispersée, en jetant un pont entre le sacré et le séculier, entre l’histoire passée et le contemporain. En tant que peuple nomade, nous avons appris au fil des siècles à exploiter notre capacité à nous adapter à de nombreux environnements différents. En observant cette migration, mes propres expériences et spécificités culturelles sont explorées à travers la représentation et la réappropriation de l’iconographie traditionnelle tibétaine. »
Voir le site de Tsherin Sherpa : https://www.tsherinsherpa.com/
If nothing else, Lucio did pump a lot of cash into the pockets of various Vesuvian artists. Whether this was good for one's artistic reputation or not is debatable, but if you were willing and able to realize Lucio's latest wildly kinky fantasy image, you certainly would not go hungry.
The Temple Painter was spotted during one of Lucio's tours of the district, where he would make a big show of 'providing for his people' by tossing alms and sweets to the impoverished outside the temples. (Never mind that he could have provided much more by actually paying for civic infrastructure projects...)
By its very nature, the esoteric subject matter that the Temple Painter specializes in involves a great deal of highly-adorned nudity and representations of sacred sexual congress, all of it in bright colors and shining gold. Of course this drew the eye of the Count, who was not to be refused in this way.
But the Temple Painter didn't suffer through all those sittings staring at the Count's gleaming, freshly-waxed buttcheeks for nothing - with time, they went from living in a cramped rented space in one of Vesuvia's many insulae to outright purchasing a rather nice little flat in the Temple District itself.
(A/N wrt sacred art under the cut)
The linked images were made by my own painting teacher, who was trained in the Karma Gadri style of thangka painting, a lineage originating from the 8th Karmapa. Thangka painting is very rigorous and well-defined, and while there is some artistic license available in ornamentation choices and such, by and large it is a tightly prescribed art form. To be done properly, it requires direct transmission from a teacher - that is, you must interact with someone who has been trained and have them oversee your work.
However, its overall style and decorative elements do transfer well to other forms of artwork, and some contemporary thangka artists are also creating social commentary and pop-art works alongside their sacred art, like Ang Tsherin Sherpa.
Tsherin Sherpa and Tulku Jamyang, 2015. Gold paint, incense-burned rice paper, acrylic on rice paper underlay, 42.5 x 59.5 cm. Image courtesy of Rossi & Rossi.
Friends in the Bay Area, on Sunday, April 30th, please join us at BAMPFA for the East Bay premiere of "ABOVE AND BELOW: The Life of Artist Tsherin Sherpa," a 33-minute biographical film narrated by Peter Coyote, and directed & produced by Sheri Brenner who says:
"Come see the film at the fabulous Osher theater, and meet Tsherin Sherpa now at the peak of his rise to global art stardom. Then stay and see the gallery show, Endless Knot. It promises to be a delightful afternoon ..."
Details: 👉 https://bit.ly/3L8CY7Z
The screening will be preceded by a "Lijin Lecture: Tsherin Sherpa on Art from the Himalayas: Past into Present."
13th Gen's Marc Smolowitz, is a #ProudConsultingProducer of ABOVE AND BELOW.
More of my highlights from Tuesday’s Art Basel Hong Kong VIP Preview:
1 - If this looks familiar, it’s because I took another selfie (wearing a different suit) with another version of this piece at 2016’s ABHK. Anish Kapoor, Random Triangle Mirror, Mennour.
2 - These garments are made of maps! Catalina Swinburn, No Land: The Water Ceremony, Selma Feriani.
3 - I like cute things. Detail of Ulala Imai, Party, Karma.
4 - Shoe selfie at ROH Projects.
5 - This changed colors. Bi Rongrong, A Quatrefoil Patterned Door • Reflection.
6 - Tsherin Sherpa, Stairways to Heaven, Rossi & Rossi.