Partial Views: Recoding Sacred Objects

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To honor the Centennial of St. Ignatius Church at her current site, Manresa Gallery builds upon a long history of commissions dating back to the 19th century. Such endeavors generate exciting visual possibilities for enhanced spiritual meaning. They also convey a sense of limitation, if not humility, before inspiring transcendent objects.

In Partial Views four artists engage the themes, styles and functions of various objects long associated with sacred rituals at St. Ignatius Church. Rebeca Bollinger, Todd Bura, Bryson Gill and Ranu Mukherjee respond both to parish archival material and also to the liturgical objects themselves through a process of investigative storytelling and poetic gestures. The newly created works decode and clarify experiential ambiguities and sensual aspects of the church’s treasures; they offer alternate visual styles and materiality. While transposing their reactions into other media, the artists sustain a balance between the known and the unknowable, the earthly and the heavenly. Each conversant object imparts a partial view of a larger whole often not seen, underplayed or easily lost from sight.

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