CURATORS' TALK: Rocks in our Heads with Heidi Gustafson and Devon Deimler

The Philosophical Research Society is pleased to present a group exhibition co-curated by Heidi Gustafson and Devon Deimler titled Feeding the Unseen: Remediations of Earth.
Spiritually-charged rocks, soil, metal, and pigment. Intimate acts of alchemy. Renewed cultural practices. Remediations of earth with earth. Elemental magic. The artists of Feeding the Unseen critically engage the metamorphic gravity of living on a mortal planet.
Viewers are invited to witness and absorb artworks that transmute and transform lost, traumatized, or toxic matters: a hermetically sealed weapon slowly dissolving into black ink by alchemists Thomas Little and Dylan Kehde Roelofs; a film of Māori artist Sarah Hudson as she becomes “rocks in all forms”; a sacred drawing in blood by Samurai-descendent Yuri Shimojo in collaboration with ink-maker Jason Logan; a heart-centered sculpture made with ritual white dirt by East African artist Valerie Piraino; honorific rip-rap from nuclear containment sites by geochemist Dr. Morgan Williams; an empowering Tibetan Buddhist treasure vase from His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche’s lineage by Treasure of Abundance; and other potent and auspicious offerings.
Works by: Camas Logue, Sarah Hudson, Valerie Piraino, Onya McCausland, Charles Simonds and Rudy Burckhardt, Yuri Shimojo and Jason Logan, Kelley O’Leary, Morgan Williams, Treasure of Abundance, Alana Siegel, Maru García, Marilú Ríos Guerrero, Heidi Gustafson, Thomas Little and Dylan Kehde Roeloefs, Tilke Elkins and Wild Pigment Project, Charles Deimler, and Corwin Fergus.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ARTITS HERE: www.prs.org/feeding-the-unsee...
Book of Earth by Heidi Gustafson also celebrates its LA debut on this occasion (author will be available for book signings and copies will be available for purchase). ​Now available at the PRS Bookstore!
www.prs.org/store/p3364/Book_...
Point of Origin by Valerie Piraino is also available!
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Supported by The Art of Soil
Devon Deimler is an artist, mythologist, writer, and teacher based in Los Angeles. She’s an adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she teaches courses on myth, images, dreams/visions, archetypal psychology, and art/aesthetics in the Depth Psychology and Creativity and Mythological Studies programs. She is Curator of exhibits and events at OPUS Archives and Research Center, home to the collections of James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, and Marion Woodman, among others, and Artist in Residence and Special Editions Editor at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, where she also founded and curated the Cinemyth Film Series.
Heidi Gustafson is an artist and ochre specialist who was born and lives in the rural Pacific Northwest. Her highly collaborative and intuitive projects include a working sanctuary of over 600 ochres and earth pigments from around Earth. Called the “woman archiving the world’s ochers” by the New York Times, and the “ochre whisperer” in American Craft, her work has been featured in several books and publications worldwide. Heidi’s anticipated book debut, Book of Earth : A Guide to Ochre, Pigments, and Raw Color will be published in May 2023.
Music:
“Somewhere Nice” by John Bartmann is licensed under CC 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
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