Sweet Obsession

Lynn Powers: twenty year survey

DATESDecember 4, 2010 - February 27, 2011

RECEPTIONFriday, December 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Artist's Site

www.lynnpowers.com/

Lynn Powers, The Ten Thousand Things, 2009, mixed media on canvas

In this current age of technology we have answers to many questions that in previous centuries were profound mysteries. So observes artist Lynn Powers, yet the human mind/psyche continues to be a mystery despite our scientific advances. Inherent in Powers’s work is a compelling interest in contemplative vision and intuition in concert with a belief in beauty and harmony as a unifying force of nature. Powers’s impulse for making art is generated by a desire to bring together ideas and materials that provoke an inner dialogue for the viewer and the artist, which questions a given mind set and the nature of reality and ultimately enriches the experience of this mortal coil.

This exhibition will feature recent works by Lynn Powers that invite contemplation and an invitation to explore the mysteries of life and the world around us.

In connection with the exhibition
Sweet Obsession
Lynn Powers: Twenty Year Survey
please join us

Saturday, January 15, 2011 from 1:30-4:00 p.m.
The Poetry of Sweet Obsession
featuring poetry readings by
Parthenia M. Hicks, Los Gatos Poet Laureate
with additional readings by
Nils Peterson, Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County
Calder Lowe, author of Holding the Light in Your Arms
and Executive Editor of Dragonfly Press
and Rob Pesich, author of Burned Kilim.
Join us as these four poets read new work inspired by
the art of Lynn Powers and the process of art-making.

Thursday, February 24, 2011 from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Collaboration & Collage
A Poetry Reading and Conversation
featuring Sally Ashton.
Enjoy an evening of poetry, art, and conversation with poet Sally Ashton who will read from new work written in response to Lynn Powers’s current exhibition, Sweet Obsession, and other works of art, as well as poems written as collage. Her reading will be followed by Q/A and include time to view the Powers exhibition. Sally Ashton is Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art (www.dmqreview.com).