Brehm Center exhibit is part of citywide Pasadena Art & Ideas Festival
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10/16/09
The Brehm Center at Fuller Theological Seminary will sponsor an exhibition of the work of artist Patty Wickman, “Approaching Eden,” October 23 through November 23 at Fuller’s David Allan Hubbard Library. An opening reception will take place at the library on Friday, October 23, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
The exhibit is part of the Pasadena Arts Council’s 2009 Art & Ideas Festival, “Origins.” Fuller is a collaborating partner in the citywide festival, which is offered to the public every two years by a consortium of Pasadena-area arts, science, cultural, and educational institutions.
In the exhibit Wickman, who is Professor of Painting and Drawing at UCLA, explores contemporary garden narratives, shaping a dialogue between the narratives of the Bible and the anxieties of a postmodern, globalized world.
“The garden, in the Jewish and Christian traditions, has been a privileged site of human interaction with each other, the created order, and with God,” says Wickman. “It has been a place of nurture but also of temptation, of delight but also of profound struggle. From the confrontations in Eden, through the enclosed garden of medieval art, to the ecological and agricultural challenges of the modern period, the garden has been a constant setting for the human drama.”
According to L.A. Weekly, “Wickman is an anomaly in the L.A. art scene—a masterful technician of both painting and drawing who uses these unfashionable talents . . . as the vehicle for metaphorical images that are as intellectually complex and rigorous as any work now being produced.”
Pasadena Arts Council’s Art & Ideas Festival presents exhibits, activities, and programming to inspire public dialogue and contribute to arts appreciation and intellectual growth. Fuller Seminary and other collaborating partners chose the theme “Origins” for this year’s festival as one that lends itself to multiple perspectives that are both innovative and timely, allowing different partners to creatively interpret the theme according to their institutional focus.
Fuller Seminary’s Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts works to revitalize the church through the arts, offering an innovative space for the creative integration of worship, theology, and the arts in culture. The center promotes degree programs and courses that investigate the theory and practice of artistic ministry, fosters creativity and creative events on campus and in the community, and offers educational opportunities to church leaders, engaging expert faculty, visiting scholars, and world-class artists.
For more information about the “Approaching Eden” art exhibit, visit the Brehm Center website, email brehmcenter@fuller.edu or call 626-304-3789.