Installation featuring the “Your Eyes Water” painting and series.
The realm of the Orphic King, also related to the Old Wise Man or Sage.
PRESS RELEASE by Azarian McCullough Gallery
September 4 - September 27th, 2019
Curated by Timothy Hull
The Azarian McCullough Gallery at St Thomas Aquinas College is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Samuel Abelow and his “Origins” work.
The paintings are colorful and play with lyrical shapes, classical and exotic patterns that dance within malleable borders of the picture plane and imagery of mythic characters. In the course of exploring ancient myths and their variations across the timelines of historical culture.
Samuel Abelow lives and works in Easton, Connecticut. This is his first solo exhibition.
Samuel Abelow, August 6, 2019
In my art practice, there is an ongoing development of a coloristic, symbolic, mythic, psychological and multicultural codex, which is fluid and intuitive, expressed in multimedia, and yet appears to be reaching towards increasing “objectivity” — a sense of clarity.
Poetic themes are explored in the history of traditional painting medium and thought, sound as craft and the composition of music, dance, gesture and costume, pattern, design and architecture, history, cultural comparison and mythological material, psychoanalysis and the rational mind.
INSTALLATION VIEWS
PSLAMS 82
1
מִזְמ֗וֹר לְאָ֫סָ֥ף אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים נִצָּ֥ב בַּעֲדַת־אֵ֑ל בְּקֶ֖רֶב אֱלֹהִ֣ים יִשְׁפֹּֽט׃
A psalm of Asaph. God stands in the divine assembly; among the divine beings He pronounces judgment.
2
עַד־מָתַ֥י תִּשְׁפְּטוּ־עָ֑וֶל וּפְנֵ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים תִּשְׂאוּ־סֶֽלָה׃
How long will you judge perversely, showing favor to the wicked? Selah.
3
שִׁפְטוּ־דַ֥ל וְיָת֑וֹם עָנִ֖י וָרָ֣שׁ הַצְדִּֽיקוּ׃
Judge the wretched and the orphan, vindicate the lowly and the poor,
4
פַּלְּטוּ־דַ֥ל וְאֶבְי֑וֹן מִיַּ֖ד רְשָׁעִ֣ים הַצִּֽילוּ׃
rescue the wretched and the needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.
5
לֹ֤א יָֽדְע֨וּ ׀ וְלֹ֥א יָבִ֗ינוּ בַּחֲשֵׁכָ֥ה יִתְהַלָּ֑כוּ יִ֝מּ֗וֹטוּ כָּל־מ֥וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃
They neither know nor understand, they go about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth totter.
6
אֲֽנִי־אָ֭מַרְתִּי אֱלֹהִ֣ים אַתֶּ֑ם וּבְנֵ֖י עֶלְי֣וֹן כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃
I had taken you for divine beings, sons of the Most High, all of you;
7
אָ֭כֵן כְּאָדָ֣ם תְּמוּת֑וּן וּכְאַחַ֖ד הַשָּׂרִ֣ים תִּפֹּֽלוּ׃
but you shall die as men do, fall like any prince.
8
קוּמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים שָׁפְטָ֣ה הָאָ֑רֶץ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה תִ֝נְחַ֗ל בְּכָל־הַגּוֹיִֽם׃
Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are Your possession.