Iraq War Stations of the Cross to Go on View in L.A.

On January 7th, The Avenue 50 Studio in Los Angeles will accessible an art exhibition absorption on questions of adoration and politics. The appearance appearance artists Sergio Hernandez, Poli Marichal, John Paul Thornton, Mark Vallen and Gwyneth Leech, whose arguable Stations of the Cross paintings for a Connecticut abbey accept created an acrimonious agitation over her bond of Christianity and politics.

Los Angeles -- Gwyneth Leech, the painter of arguable stations of the cantankerous set in the bosom of the Iraq war, will be announcement in Don't Talk About Religion or Politics, a accumulation appearance at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles. Running from January 7th to February 6th, 2006, the display will present artworks with arguable airy and political themes. Artists Mark Vallen, Poli Marichal, Sergio Hernandez and John Paul Thornton will aswell be alms their painterly visions.

Someone acclaimed already said, "Religion is the blow of the afflicted creature, the affection of a brutal world, and the body of apathetic conditions." Those words absolutely ring accurate in our own time, as amaranthine individuals about-face appear spiritualism for answers to life’s abundant mysteries - their acceptance apartment them from a atrociously aloof world. Yet at the aforementioned time societies everywhere are aswell accepting burst by religious zealotry, bigotry and animality - with adoration itself acutely a active force abaft war. The exhibition, Don’t Talk About Religion or Politics, attempts a allusive analysis of these contradictions and their political ramifications.

Don’t Talk About Religion or Politics is aswell an age-old American axiom, an adage the accommodating artists of this display acutely intend to avoid as they anxiously appraise the abashing amid the angelic and profane. To bless the accent of adherence in our lives and aggregate consciousness, the accommodating artists of this exhibition accept appear calm to action 18-carat visions of allegiance and devotion. But they are aswell adventurous to action honest critiques of religion’s darker side. It is to this duality of purpose that we address the exhibition, Don’t Talk About Religion or Politics.

The Artist's Reception takes abode on Saturday, January 7th, from 7 - 9 pm. An artists appointment will be captivated on Thursday, January 12th, from 7 - to 9 pm.

Avenue 50 Studio is amid at 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, Los Angeles, 90042.

About Gwyneth Leech's Stations of the Cross
New York Artist, Gwyneth Leech was commissioned in 2004 by Saint Paul's on the Green, an Epsicopal Church in Norwalk, Connecticut to acrylic stations of the cantankerous that alloy acceptable Christian iconography with abreast elements. She begin a active way of depicting Christ's adventure to the cantankerous for avant-garde viewers, by accumulation the adversity and affliction of humans about the apple who are bent in the bosom of armed conflict, abnormally the war in Iraq. Unveiled beforehand this year, the paintings are now on abiding appearance in the abbey at 60 East Avenue, East Norwalk, CT 06851.

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