Exhibit Closed Saturday April 15.
Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture is pleased to present the world premier of Lucas Reiner’s The Stations. This collection engages the profound capacity of art to embody a universal human longing to comprehend suffering, loss, and the passage of time.
In the wake of his mother’s death in 2008, over a period of seven years Reiner produced a series of watercolor studies, fifteen dry point etchings, and fifteen large-scale, chromatically variegated canvasses, each of which is comprised of multiple layers of raw tempera pigment, marble dust, dispersion, water and wax resulting in a subtle luminosity that rises to meet the viewer’s gaze at the painting surface.
Offering a contemporary contemplative visual space to reflect on the timeless path of transformation, The Stations paintings transcend religious affiliation to embrace an expanded vision of empathy in peaceful accord with nature, engaging the profound capacity of art to embody a universal human longing to comprehend suffering, loss, and the passage of time.
