Carole Silverstein's "this ache in your heart is holy" show is on view through August 10, 2024, at Nancy Toomey Fine Art. More: tinyurl.com/mt...
Carole Silverstein’s exhibition "this ache in your heart is holy" contains a recurring motif of the cosmic web found in sacred geometry. The web is an extension of Silverstein’s theme of the garden and its metaphor for healing and renewal, as well as a theme of rupture and repair. This is the artist’s response to the rise of darkness and despair from our world’s multiple crises, and to the dramatic shift in her life as a mother with a son departing for college and adulthood. These paintings and watercolors are born out of this disorienting time. The cosmic web pattern becomes about re-weaving and re-building a sense of wholeness-personally and globally. For Silverstein, this is significantly guided by the concept of the Buddhist and Hindu “Indra’s net” which envisions the universe as an infinite web, exquisitely interdependent-as well as to the Jewish concept of "tikkun olam," to repair a broken world... More: tinyurl.com/mt...
Nancy Toomey Fine Art is located inside San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, and gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm to 4pm, and by appointment. Please contact nancy@nancytoomeyfineart.com or 415-307-9038
Video: Anthony Bello (director)
Music: Rising Appalachia (composer), "Depth" song from "The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know" album (2021)
Video excerpts of artist Carole Silverstein by Julio Sims