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#2794 - Friday, April 20, 2007 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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This issue features news of the upcoming (this weekend!) art show by Toinette Lippe. Some examples of her work are shown. I think you'll find them appealing with light, life, and lightness. Also, Toinette speaks nonduality, so if you live in New York City, stop and see her and buy something. The prices are very reasonable. Toinette is showing and selling paintings and greeting cards.
Hey New York City! Listen up...
Toinette Lippe, author of Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life: http://www.toinettelippe.com/NothingLeftOver.htm
and Caught in the Act: Reflections on Being, Knowing, and Doing: http://www.toinettelippe.com/CaughtintheAct.htm
is having a show of her paintings and blank greeting cards made from the paintings.
MY FIRST SHOW
I am delighted to
announce that I will be holding a show the weekend
of April 20th-22nd, 2007.
When
Friday, April 20th, 5-8 pm
Saturday, April 21st, 1-5 pm
Sunday, April 22nd, 1-5 pm
Where
711
West End Avenue #6AN
New York, NY 10025
(between 94th and 95th)
212-749-1562
Paintings and blank greeting cards made from the paintings will be available for purchase (cash and checks only).
If you would like to come, please let me know: toinette@toinettelippe.com
Everyone is welcome but it would be helpful to have an idea of how many “everyone” is likely to be on each day.
I look forward to welcoming you all.
The spontaneous
style of East Asian brush painting seeks to express the essence
of something with a few swift and sure strokes. Ancient Chinese
masters described it as allowing “the brush to dance and the
ink to sing” and contemporary Sumi-e artist Motoi Oi says:
“The aim is not the reproduction of the subject matter but
the elimination of the inessential” or, to put it another
way, the painter seeks to distill nature rather than record it.
My hope is that the image will be intense and potent, that it
will leap off the paper and into the viewer’s heart. The
painting comes alive in proportion to how present I am and how
lightly I hold the brush. As Kaz Tanahashi taught me, two
principles must be kept in mind: “Undivided attention equals
unswerving strokes” and “Do not hold a brush unless you
are smiling.”
I bow to all my
teachers—Koho Yamamoto, Zhang Zhan, Mildred Gallo, Charles
Chu, Jong Wang Lee, Wanxin Zhang, Kaz Tanahashi, and Sungsook
Setton—each of whom has guided me in different but essential
ways along the path.
I hope that one day my
brush will express the luminous purity of Mary Oliver’s
poems, the vitality of Paul Reps’ Zen telegrams (minimalist
paintings of a “cucumber unaccountably cucumbering,”
“consciousness delighting as crane,” and other small
miracles), the exuberant love of life in Pablo Neruda’s
odes, and the transcendence of Ralph Vaughan Williams’
orchestral piece, “The Lark Ascending.” I yearn to
experience wonder, joy, and delight as I paint and to express
these qualities in such a way that others may experience them
too.
--Toinette Lippe
When
Friday, April 20th, 5-8 pm
Saturday, April 21st, 1-5 pm
Sunday, April 22nd, 1-5 pm
Where
711 West End Avenue #6AN
New York, NY 10025
(between 94th and 95th)
212-749-1562