PRICE LISTS
Posted: November 5, 2012 Filed under: PRICE LISTS, Viriditas | Tags: Aged, All Verdant Greening, Ameland Treeline, Center for New Media, DAnce of Death, Green Vitality, Guardian of Glenaraha, Illumination, Landscape: First Born of Creation, Language of Time, Linda Rzoska, Pine Cone, Shelter, The Green Man, The Pine Cone's Story, Tree in the Garden, Viriditas Leave a commentVIRIDITAS
The Green Man
Signed and numbered prints of the artwork are available for purchase. I keep the circulation of limited edition prints small – usually anywhere from 1 to 10 from a small range of different imaging equipment.
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Aged
All Verdant Greening
- Ameland Treeline
- Dance of Death
Green Vitality
Illumination 1,2,3 and 4
Shelter
The Pine Cone’s Story
Landscape: Firstborn of Creation
Guardian of Glenaraha
The Story of the Tree in the Garden
The Green Man
EXHIBITS
Posted: November 4, 2012 Filed under: CNM Art Hop 110212, EXHIBITS, Viriditas | Tags: Center for New Media, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Linda Rzoska, Viriditas Leave a commentCenter for New Media, November 2nd Art Hop
My exhibit “VIRIDITAS” opened on Friday, November 2, 2012 in the South Gallery of the Center for New Media. The exhibit will be on display throughout the month of November.
The artwork in this exhibit visually displays my personal perception of this “greening power” Hildegard Of Bingen called VIRIDITAS. For me it is a sense of spiritual connection with the life giving force of this universe. In keeping with much of my artwork, it was created to honor all the living things that exist in every aspect of creation and to represent a sense of life with no limitations of space and time, a sharing of spirit, mind and heart, a spiritual recognition and belonging, a joining in an ancient and eternal way.
Artist Statement for VIRIDITAS.
ARTIST STATEMENTS
Posted: November 4, 2012 Filed under: Viriditas | Tags: Center for New Media, greening power, Hildegard Of Bingen, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Linda Rzoska, Viriditas Leave a commentViriditas
November 2012 at the Center for New Media at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Opening Reception, Friday, November 2nd from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
This exhibit brings together many new pieces of artwork with a few that are older. I’ve chosen these to come together because they were all created to communicate “something” that I recently discovered had a name: VIRIDITAS.
In April of 2012 I came across an article that stated Pope Benedict had recently canonized a 12th Century nun by the name of Hildegard Of Bingen. The article said that Hildegard was a 12th Century feminist who gave counsel to many powerful men: Pope Eugene III, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Archbishop Henry of Mainz, and Emperor Frederic Barbarossa, to name a few. She also composed soaringly beautiful music, wrote books, painted paintings, and had a unique understanding of nature. Hildegard Of Bingen used the word VIRIDITAS to communicate the strong “greening power” she recognized in the nature of the cosmos. I was intrigued so I bought 3 of her books and started to read more about this fascinating woman and VIRIDITAS. I soon realized that in the 12th Century, Hildegard Of Bingen was communicating in words and music something very similar to what I feel the need to communicate in my artwork. It has to do with “connection”. I will use this quote from Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Mars Trilogy” to help describe what I mean:
“Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That’s the shape of the universe itself. There’s a constant pressure, pushing toward pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It’s a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call VIRIDITAS, and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.”
The artwork in this exhibit visually displays my personal perception of this “greening power” Hildegard Of Bingen called VIRIDITAS. For me it is a sense of spiritual connection with the life giving force of this universe. In keeping with much of my artwork, it was created to honor all the living things that exist in every aspect of creation and to represent a sense of life with no limitations of space and time, a sharing of spirit, mind and heart, a spiritual recognition and belonging, a joining in an ancient and eternal way.
