Edge of the Divine

February 27 - May 01,2021

From the gallery: "McClain Gallery presents Edge of the Divine: a group exhibition featuring artists whose creative process and introspection touches on contemporary notions of the divine. The seven artists include Seth Cameron, Christian Eckart, Sheila Hicks, Dorothy Hood, Sam Gilliam, Robert Polidori, and Ai Weiwei. Edge of the Divine coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the Rothko Chapel, its lasting impact on Houston, and the concurrent exhibition Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration at Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University.   During his first European tour in 1950, Mark Rothko discovered profound inspiration in Fra Angelico's frescoes in the Convent of San Marco in Florence, Italy. Painted in the fifteenth century, Fra Angelico's ecclesiastical commissions were also manifestations of his faith and devotion. Rothko was taken with the artist's delicate application of light and color, and how his frescoes welcomed a contemplative viewing. It was this meditative and inward atmosphere that Rothko hoped to reproduce. The frescoes mirrored for Rothko what Hegel described as the invention of "artistic interiority." The experience provided Rothko a portal to emotional transcendence, forming the impetus for his own work."

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