Sacred Geometry Workshop for Artists in Medford
Oregon - 12April2008 9AM-1PM
24Mar2008 11:55 AM Permalink
Fascinated by the
mystical aesthetic appeal of Renaissance artists like
DaVinci? Numerous artists since antiquity
intentionally used techniques now referred to
as sacred geometry
in their
masterpieces. You can too! Discover the secret
behind the appeal their art holds to this day.
This Hands-on Artist's Workshop will show classic sacred geometry constructions and theory for visual artists - The class will supply all the background needed to incorporate the principles of "interconnectedness" and proportions that represent our cosmic relatedness for any artist with no math background required. Bring a compass and straight-edge to replicate the universal patterns and ratios with the "classic" constructions used by Plato, Pythagoras, Da Vinci, and numerous other ancient, Renaissance and contemporary artists from a variety of media and disciplines.
Projects will include: 2D constructions (Vesica Piscis, Seed of Life, Flower of Life, Golden Rectangles, Golden Triangles, Squaring the Circle, inscribed pentagrams, mandalas, tilings, etc.) as well as 3D polyhedra foldups and working in various 2D and 3D media.
Contact Central Art Supply at 541-773-1444 or Bruce Rawles for details and enrollment. Cost is $20 and includes handout material needed to replicate the workshops projects and references. Autographed, personalized copies of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook will be available for puchase as well.
Here is a printable poster about the workshop.
This Hands-on Artist's Workshop will show classic sacred geometry constructions and theory for visual artists - The class will supply all the background needed to incorporate the principles of "interconnectedness" and proportions that represent our cosmic relatedness for any artist with no math background required. Bring a compass and straight-edge to replicate the universal patterns and ratios with the "classic" constructions used by Plato, Pythagoras, Da Vinci, and numerous other ancient, Renaissance and contemporary artists from a variety of media and disciplines.
Projects will include: 2D constructions (Vesica Piscis, Seed of Life, Flower of Life, Golden Rectangles, Golden Triangles, Squaring the Circle, inscribed pentagrams, mandalas, tilings, etc.) as well as 3D polyhedra foldups and working in various 2D and 3D media.
Contact Central Art Supply at 541-773-1444 or Bruce Rawles for details and enrollment. Cost is $20 and includes handout material needed to replicate the workshops projects and references. Autographed, personalized copies of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook will be available for puchase as well.
Here is a printable poster about the workshop.
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Sara Frucht Art Opening at the Coffee Mill in Oakland
Calif. 22Mar2008
13Mar2008 10:58 AM Permalink
Anyone who has attended
my multimedia presentations
during the past 4
years has probably seen some of the exquisite
"virtual polyhedra" art of Sara Frucht -
Kaliedoscapes
as she aptly calls
them. Here is a slightly truncated tetrahedron of
mirrors that creates a virtual icosahedron in the
corner...
... and the same amazing model with a little rubber ball rolled in, creating a "virtual dodecahedron" by connecting the midpoints of the reflected spheres:
... and digital fly-through animation she created for a proposed Berkeley Community Garden project.
Her artistic abilities are evidently also at home in "conventional media" as well. Here's the announcement she just sent about her art opening in Oakland, California on March 22, 2008:
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Hi Everyone -
Please come to my art opening and reception. Here is the info:
Time: Saturday, March 22, 2-4pm
Place: Coffee Mill & Bakery
3363 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA
(510) 465-4224
(about one block from the Grand lake Theatre)
Featuring the music of fabulous rock and jazz guitarist Toku Woo
I currently have twelve of my acrylic paintings on display. They were all done this past fall and winter. Also showing - paintings by Peter, artist of the Lake. (He also painted all the murals on the walls inside the cafe.)
In case you can't make it to the opening, these paintings will be on display at the Coffee Mill until Saturday, May 3.
I hope to see you there!
Sara Frucht
... and the same amazing model with a little rubber ball rolled in, creating a "virtual dodecahedron" by connecting the midpoints of the reflected spheres:
... and digital fly-through animation she created for a proposed Berkeley Community Garden project.
Her artistic abilities are evidently also at home in "conventional media" as well. Here's the announcement she just sent about her art opening in Oakland, California on March 22, 2008:
===========
Hi Everyone -
Please come to my art opening and reception. Here is the info:
Time: Saturday, March 22, 2-4pm
Place: Coffee Mill & Bakery
3363 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA
(510) 465-4224
(about one block from the Grand lake Theatre)
Featuring the music of fabulous rock and jazz guitarist Toku Woo
I currently have twelve of my acrylic paintings on display. They were all done this past fall and winter. Also showing - paintings by Peter, artist of the Lake. (He also painted all the murals on the walls inside the cafe.)
In case you can't make it to the opening, these paintings will be on display at the Coffee Mill until Saturday, May 3.
I hope to see you there!
Sara Frucht
Tempest At Oregon Shakespeare Festival
20Jul2007 04:22 PM
Permalink
Last night, my sister, her family (sans niece
finishing up a summer physics internship in Australia
researching gravity waves), and I attended a stellar
performance of The Tempest at the
Oregon Shakespeare
Festival...
(thanks, Gayle!) I was not only inspired by the
excellent performances, great costumes and
staging, I particularly appreciated the deeper
meaning of the play, which revolved around
forgiveness... so synchronistic, as I'm completing
the first reading of
Gary Renard's
book,
Your Immortal
Reality,
which is completely about the same crucial element
in our awakening – realizing there is ultimately
nothing in our eternal nature to forgive.
Here's a quote from the Tempest from Renard's book (page 140)I had just read a few days (synchronistically):
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Kinda puts our fleeting and ephemeral issues into perspective
My sister has a lovely collection of antique and reproduction prints of Shakespeare, such as this one:
Here's how to contact her if you want prints or cards for your store or home:
Here's a quote from the Tempest from Renard's book (page 140)I had just read a few days (synchronistically):
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Kinda puts our fleeting and ephemeral issues into perspective
My sister has a lovely collection of antique and reproduction prints of Shakespeare, such as this one:
Here's how to contact her if you want prints or cards for your store or home:
Vitruvian Man in Star Tetrahedron
02Jul2007 08:01 AM Permalink
Vitruvian Sphere
26Jun2007 06:21 AM Permalink
Correspondence-Thumbnail
02Jun2007 09:32 AM Permalink
Correspondence (example still image from the animations in The Geometry Code Screensaver/Meditation tool/eBooklet
Women In Art animation
30May2007 08:04 AM Permalink
Thanks
to Charley and Dan for this amazing sequence of world class
"Women In Art". Now I want to
visit all the galleries to see all the originals;
lovely artistry morphing individual masterpieces
to create another integrated masterpiece with a
vivid sense of the divine feminine archetype ... a
perfect example of the eternal hologram being
greater than the sum of its (temporally sliced)
parts!
Dan Shaw - Silkscreens from SGDS
29May2007 08:04 AM Permalink
Thanks
to long time friend and colleague Dan Shaw for posting
a photo of some of his silkscreen
artistry, inspired in
part from images from my Sacred Geometry Design
Sourcebook. In addition to
making a nice rendition from the "Pentagram
Dodecahedron Fractal" on page 154, he also created
a lovely Escher-esque vertical banner from the
"Fishscale Grid" sequence on pages 53, 54, and 62.
Can't wait to see the t-shirts!
Amoraea's Visionary Art
16May2007 11:36 AM Permalink
Our
Hedronist group had the
pleasure of meeting visionary artist
Amoraea Dreamseed
yesterday
afternoon at our impromptu open air meeting in
front of the Ashland Food
Coop. He showed us a
large canvas giclée print (among others) of his
recent creation: The Sacred
Covenant, which has some
lovely geometry (including a Sri Yantra tiled
column) and imagery.
Excerpt from Dan's Interview at Mobius
10Apr2007 09:27 AM Permalink
As part
of the First Friday art
series,
last
Friday (see my blog post for 6 April 2007) I was
in Ashland, Oregon at the Mobius Gallery showing
and answering questions about giclée (and
larger) prints of my "Martineau Solar
System Geometry" Series which will be on
exhibit there through the end of this month.
Many thanks to Dan Shaw of Vortex Maps who sent me this clip of the video he took of me talking about the art! Greatly appreciated, Dan!!!
Many thanks to Dan Shaw of Vortex Maps who sent me this clip of the video he took of me talking about the art! Greatly appreciated, Dan!!!
flyer I made for last night's Artists Reception
07Apr2007 08:00 AM Permalink
Here's a
flyer I made for last night's Artists Reception at
the Mobius Gallery/Venue in Ashland, Oregon, showing:
representative samples of my work (from left to
right):
Calendars of the Martineau Solar System Series
The Geometry Code Screen Saver & Meditation Tool
Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
Calendars of the Martineau Solar System Series
The Geometry Code Screen Saver & Meditation Tool
Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
Mobius Art Exhibit & First Friday Event
06Apr2007 09:01 AM Permalink
Tonight
(Friday, 6 April 2007) I will be in Ashland, Oregon
at the Mobius Gallery from 4:30-9PM showing and
answering questions about giclée (and larger) prints
of my "Martineau Solar System Geometry" Series which
I just finished hanging; thanks to Marla from the
Mobius for her assistance! Here's a press release I'm
sending out last minute:
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Press Release – For Immediate Release
Accurate Geometric Models of Solar System - Art at Mobius Gallery in April & First Friday
Where: The Mobius, 281 4th Street, Ashland, Oregon 97520
When: Exhibit open now through April 30; First Friday artist reception 5-9PM 6 April 2007
What: 12 giclée prints of "The Martineau Series", digital art inspired by breakthrough discoveries about our solar system and how the orbits of the planets relate to simple geometric models.
Who: artist and geometer Bruce Rawles
As part of the First Friday art series, the Mobius is currently exhibiting (through the end of April) the artwork of local digital artist and author, Bruce Rawles. Inspired by line art in a book by fellow UK author & geometer, John Martineau, Rawles' 3D computer rendered images incorporate NASA imagery as well as nature photography as backdrops to stunningly accurate (most 99.9% or better) models of our solar system that pick up where Johannes Kepler's explorations left off. Framed archival giclée prints as well as larger posters, card and books will also be available at the First Friday event at the Mobius.
More information about Rawles' "Martineau Series" is available here.
This award-winning exhibit was recently shown at ScienceWorks in Ashland, as well as the Rogue Gallery, and has also appeared at galleries in California, Switzerland and Austria. More information about Rawles' "Martineau Series" exhibits and other presentations, etc. is available here.
Rawles is also the author of Sacred Geometry Design SourceBook, published in English and German as well as co-author of a geometric screensaver and meditation tool based on ancient laws of nature
He maintains a blog about a variety of related interests.
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Press Release – For Immediate Release
Accurate Geometric Models of Solar System - Art at Mobius Gallery in April & First Friday
Where: The Mobius, 281 4th Street, Ashland, Oregon 97520
When: Exhibit open now through April 30; First Friday artist reception 5-9PM 6 April 2007
What: 12 giclée prints of "The Martineau Series", digital art inspired by breakthrough discoveries about our solar system and how the orbits of the planets relate to simple geometric models.
Who: artist and geometer Bruce Rawles
As part of the First Friday art series, the Mobius is currently exhibiting (through the end of April) the artwork of local digital artist and author, Bruce Rawles. Inspired by line art in a book by fellow UK author & geometer, John Martineau, Rawles' 3D computer rendered images incorporate NASA imagery as well as nature photography as backdrops to stunningly accurate (most 99.9% or better) models of our solar system that pick up where Johannes Kepler's explorations left off. Framed archival giclée prints as well as larger posters, card and books will also be available at the First Friday event at the Mobius.
More information about Rawles' "Martineau Series" is available here.
This award-winning exhibit was recently shown at ScienceWorks in Ashland, as well as the Rogue Gallery, and has also appeared at galleries in California, Switzerland and Austria. More information about Rawles' "Martineau Series" exhibits and other presentations, etc. is available here.
Rawles is also the author of Sacred Geometry Design SourceBook, published in English and German as well as co-author of a geometric screensaver and meditation tool based on ancient laws of nature
He maintains a blog about a variety of related interests.
Artsy Slideshow with Pentagonal Symmetries and
Architecture
20Feb2007 08:18 AM Permalink
Thanks
to Michael in Arizona for recommending this
Artsy Slideshow with Pentagonal
Symmetries and Architecture, along with some
triangular, vesical and other interesting
geometries.
See us at Sweet Café today (2 Dec 2006) in Eagle
Point Oregon!
02Dec2006 06:36 AM Permalink
If you
happen to be in Southern Oregon today, stop by the
Sweet Café and you can see some of Nancy's art work
(much of it there on display every day, in case you
can't make it tomorrow as well as her handcrafted
jewelry. I'll also be there with my books, art
and postcards. Here's my most recent email
bulletin excerpt:
Tomorrow from 10AM-2PM at the Sweet Café (178 W. Main Street, Eagle Point, Oregon 97524)
Print this coupon and get $1.00 off any large espresso drink Dec. 2nd 2006 ONLY!
Nancy will bring an assortment of her paintings, lovely handcrafted jewelry with LOTS of updates.
I'll be there with my books, cards and prints (giclée & posters) We hope to see some of you there!
as well as her handcrafted
jewelry. I'll also be there with my books, art
and postcards. Here's my most recent email
bulletin excerpt:
Tomorrow from 10AM-2PM at the Sweet Café (178 W. Main Street, Eagle Point, Oregon 97524)
Print this coupon and get $1.00 off any large espresso drink Dec. 2nd 2006 ONLY!
Nancy will bring an assortment of her paintings, lovely handcrafted jewelry with LOTS of updates.
I'll be there with my books, cards and prints (giclée & posters) We hope to see some of you there!