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Santa Fe Contemporary Art Gallery: Healing Uplifting Art for Sacred Space. Transcendence Design
Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist. Joseph Campbell
Art with soul: Transcendence Design Contemporary Art gallery offers the best of contemporary affordable art, created by spiritually--based artists: Ciel Bergman, Robert Branaman, Charlotte Cain, Michael Cain, Lisa Chun, Roshan Houshmand, Susan Charlot Jay, Karla Refoxo & Tulku, Sherri Silverman, and David Wardman from the US, Asia, and Australia. Nourishing beauty enhances sacred space. Consciousness-based abstract and representational art, some inspired by Asian sacred art. Vastu art: uplifting beauty and adornment with joy, harmony, and spiritual energy.
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Sherri Silverman
Transcendental artist Sherri Silverman creates with sacred, healing intention. Sherri’s art features whimsical imaginary landscapes, archetypal symbolism, and rich, evocative color. Objects floating in a vast sky—ladders, hands, and other geometric and representational images---represent the joyful union of the self with the cosmos. Her art is in numerous collections, including the New Mexico Capitol Art Collection outside the Senate chambers, where it is hopefully enlightening legislators. Click "visit the studio" in the upper right corner to see Sherri's artist statement and resume.
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Roshan Houshmand
Roshan Houshmand has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe. “As an Iranian-American painter raised in the Philippines and then Iran, with a Dutch-American mother and Persian father, my roots are steeped in ancient patterns and textures. My formal education in the arts however is absolutely Western, with a Bennington College BA, and MA and MFA from Rosary Graduate School of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. I’ve been studying and practicing Buddhism for 20 years. My spiritual life is rich as I live in the rural mountains of upstate New York where nature is near and distractions are few. It’s a quiet place where I can focus on the things that are important to me. Painting is a very meditative process for me as it has its rituals and moments where the mind stills as the medium takes over. I often don’t really “see” the painting until I lay down the brush. It is my favorite place to be."
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Charlotte Cain
Charlotte Cain's decades of meditation and art-making as a sacred process of the manifestation of silence infuse all of her artwork. In addition to an NEA Artist grant, she has traveled, lived, and created artworks in India and Nepal as a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow. Artist Agnes Martin collected Charlotte's paintings. Her work references Indian and Islamic miniature painting, fabric art traditions, South Asian folk and tribal iconography, and contemporary minimalist painting. Her poetic, iconic gems bring beauty, silence, and joy.
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Michael Cain
Michael Peter Cain's consciousness-based artistic endeavors result in technically and intellectually brilliant art that also delights. Michael co-founded Pulsa, the experimental art collective based out of Yale University in the late 1960s. He continues to innovate and has received numerous grants, including National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright Fellowships. These small wax-modeled cast-brass sculptures were created in traditional murthi foundries in India. These works contrast the lyrical arabesque of ornament with the abstract logic of contemporary forms. Michael collaborates with Indian and Nepalese metal-working artisans to juxtapose American abstract minimal sculpture with images appropriated from Indo-Islamic iconography and ornament.
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Ciel Bergman
Ciel Bergman, formerly Cheryl Bowers, is a well-known painter of large and sensuous canvases that celebrate the world's beauty while confronting its darkness. Her work has been shown widely, including at the Whitney Museum Biennial of American Art. Ciel's art is in the collections of eleven museums, including the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "I am deeply moved by the color of the world; my attention is constantly riveted by the wonder of, for instance, red paint, when it remains only the physical stuff on a surface or mysteriously shifts, transforms into meaning. I am drawn to work which engages compassion, suggests the fragility of relationships in all forms, the organic, the simple and elegant, the raw and sensuous, the subtle and certainly the ineffable."
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Susan Charlot Jay
Santa Fe artist Susan Charlot Jay's mixed media shrines to the Feminine Divine as unconditional love, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the Black Madonna are legendary. She currently explores the rich imagery and symbolism of alchemy, Eastern, Buddhist, and Western philosophy. Her intuitive skills, deep psychological perception, and ability to create with diverse media produce healing art for the soul.
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Robert Branaman
Contemporary artist Bob Branaman is a master of traditional print-making techniques. His colorful Tibetan Buddhist deities are sweet and joyful visual delights. my spiritual practice? i try for Bodhicitta: some deity meditations, etc. involved with Tibetan meditation for over 25 years. i chanted the short Medicine Buddha mantra as i ran the Medicine Buddha through the press...ditto for the rest, as "Om Tare tuTare ture Svaha" for white Tara. making art: it's like a meditation, like being connected to the great Oneness. it flows timelessly.
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 Ladders of Light print
Santa Fe spiritual art print for meaningful holiday gifts. Artist Sherri Silverman.
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 Ajna, Sixth Chakra: Third Eye, Between the Brows
Silver necklace and the copper fused with 24k gold version in stock for immediate shipment. OM on reverse side.
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