Stonehenge Series #9, #10

Date1989

MediumAcrylis on paper

Dimensions80 × 216 in. (203.2 × 548.6 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object number2006.13.2

Label TextWithin the Circle Looking Northeast (Summer Soltice Sunrise)

These paintings are based on Stonehenge, the megalithic monument located on England's Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge is an ancient observatory and marker of patterns and rhythms of cosmological proportions. The paintings explore the relationship between the structure of this ancient site and the participant's viewpoint from within the structure looking out through stone archways at different points in the solar circle. As an abstract image Stonehenge houses tremendous evocative powers and a timelessness that touches emotions deep within the collective experience of humanity. But perhaps the real importance lies in its timeliness as a powerful reminder of a place where the rational empowered the intuitive; where science existed in harmony with spirit; a sacred place where the physical and the metaphysical linked in an attempt to express the inexpressible - the ultimate mystery: Life.

-Katherine Alexander, New York 1989

Status

On view

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