March of Lost Cities, Glenn Hirsch, acrylic and collage on paper (click image to enlarge)

Abstractions in a Lost Tongue
Mixed Media Paintings
by Glenn Hirsch
Cosponsored by the Social and Cultural Anthropology Department at CIIS

August 25–October 17
CIIS Main Building, Third Floor

Reception and Slide Presentation
Friday, September 19,
7:00 pm–9:00 pm
CIIS Main Building, Namaste Hall

Glenn Hirsch (MFA, San Francisco Art Institute) has been a Bay Area resident for 35 years. He serves as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University’s Arts & Consciousness program, as an instructor for UC Berkeley Extension, and teaches at San Francisco Art Institute in Community Education. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States for 20 years with several recent solo and group shows in California. Abstractions in a Lost Tongue seeks an intersection between contemporary painting practice, archaeological sources, and daydreams. The work is inspired by Mayan glyphs which speak about cyclical time in a kind of ancient software code that the Maya painted on temple walls to keep the Universe running smoothly. This series is not about what the glyphs mean as much as what they evoke: a mix of luxurious line, masked glaze, sponged light, and perhaps a warning that any civilization can come to its own demise through ecologically induced disaster, war, and over-population.

WEBSITE: http://home.earthlink.net/~glennhirsch/

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