WABI-SABI

A certain courage is exposed when life is expressed in such a blistered tone. Each piece in WABI-SABI breathes an experience that we have not quite seen collectively before. Vulnerability and confidence move through this exhibit like wisdom, becoming exposed through its scars. WABI-SABI is a Japanese term that refers to that which is impermanent, imperfect, aged, humbled, and unconventional. It is a state of mind and a way of being. It expresses a whole new world of seeing. The rawness and purity within WABI-SABI are without limit.

Best of Show-In My Own Words

Brianna Taylor
natural hair, weave thread

Hamer, South Carolina

Director's Choice-Precious Scars: Kyoto.Monk.8A

Donna Bassin
digital photograph, pigment print, thread, encaustic

Cedar Grove, New Jersey

Director's Choice-Ginkgo Leaves and Unknown Japanese Newspaper

Lingxue Hao
lumen print

Glendale, California

seeking

Linda Holland
mixed media, photo transfers on acrylic on canvas

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Domb

Samantha Connors
acquired metal grid, wool roving, thread

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anthem

Jeanne LaCasse
mixed media

Evanston, Illinois

artifacts 1

Kathy O'Meara
mixed, assemblage set in bees wax

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

What Do You Think?

Mandayam Thirunarayanan
photography

Miami, Florida

Unnoticed

Dave Manousos
acrylic on canvas

Sutter Creek, California

Memory Chambers

Lynn Welker
mixed media acrylic on paper

Newport Beach, California

Wall Abstract #3

Seth Mayer
photography

Colorado Springs, Colorado

How Do We Know What's Important?

Gayle Gerson
mixed media collage on cradled board

Grand Junction, Colorado

Gone as Quickly as Spilt Milk

Leslie Lyman
photography

Beverly, Massachusetts

Finding Some Quiet Spaces Among the Noise

Joyce Wynes
acrylic/collage on canvas paper

Davidson, North Carolina

Zadkiel

Flora Davis
patinated brass and steel center woven with a piece of geometrical cut brass-coated steel

San Francisco, California

ALL THINGS PRECIOUS

Jean Sredl
fiber art

Shawano, Wisconsin

BLACK AND WHITE AND RED

Briar Craig
hand-pulled ultra-violet screen print

Lake Country, Canada

Testsugakusha (Philosopher)

B Stevens Strauss
raku fired ceramic with traditional Japanese wooden stand

Berkeley, California

Iron-Framed Sky Wood

James Richards
photography

New York, New York

wabi-sabi

Bastien Cuenot
broken television, epoxy resin, gold leaves

Auffargis, France

PS, Remember I Don't Love You

Vernita Nemec
discarded plastic packaging on rag board with paper

New York, New York

Don't kill the goose!

Maidy Morhous
bronze

Del Mar, California

Collage

Ann Newman
photography

Phoenix, Arizona

Open Book Bejeweled

Willa Schneberg
ceramic sculpture

Portland, Oregon

Imperfect Self

James Singelis
charcoal, graphite, tape

New Marlborough, Massachusetts

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