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Feasts for the Eyes

 

exhibiting artists

Ken Arnold
Roger Beattie
Kathrin Burleson
Mary Anne Carley
Dennis Di Vicenzo
Lorna Effler
Paul Fromberg
Susan Goff
Janice Holman
Moses Hoskins
Ann Kim
Judy Gibson King
Audrey Lee
Mary Mayer
Nicole Maynard
Judith McManis
Zachary Roesemann
Claudia Smith
Patricia Smith
Kathy Thaden
Susan Tilt
Barbi Tinder
Vanessa Wells
Jeff Wunrow

curator's statement

 

 

 

 

 

Joy Comes in the Morning
Easter
by Susan E. Goff
Acrylic on canvas, 2007, 24" x 36"

 “Weeping may spend the night, but joy comes in the morning,” Psalm 30 proclaims.  I kept searching for that joy during an Easter season of death and loss and found it amid the swirls of varied texture and color in this painting.  I never found joy standing alone, isolated from suffering, but instead flashes and swirls of joy in the midst of it.  That kind of joy is never a lie.

The artist in me was set free at a conference on Creation Spirituality led by Matthew Fox in 1991.  There, in a workshop on Art and the Psalms, the instructor responded to my “oops” with the words, “there is no oops in art,” and decades of shackles fell away.  I have been painting, drawing, sculpting and printing ever since.  

In the 27 years I have been a priest, I have incorporated art – seeing art and doing art – into teaching, preaching and pastoral care.  Inspiration comes from the biblical story, the daily news, dreams and the well of prayerful silence.  

Community: St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Springfield, Virginia
Email:  rector@saintchristophers.net

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