A Land Between, Maxine Solomon, oil on canvas (click image to enlarge)

A World Within Our World
Paintings by Maxine Solomon
Cosponsored by the Philosophy, Cosmology,
and Consciousness Program at CIIS

October 24–December 12
CIIS Main Building, Third Floor

Reception and Presentation
Friday, October 24,
7:00 pm–9:00 pm
CIIS Main Building, Namaste Hall

Maxine Solomon, an award-winning oil painter who has extensive curatorial experience, has given talks and presentations and conducted painting workshops in the United States and abroad. Over the last 15 years, Solomon has exhibited widely in the Bay Area as well as in countries including Zambia, Ghana, and Armenia where she has worked actively with visual artists and artisans. Her art has been published in various magazines and books including New American Paintings and Great International Writer’s Anthology. In this exhibit, two related series of paintings, Verisimilitude: Places, and A World Within Our World, speak not only of our world’s common heritage but of its endangerment—of the withering away of both the environment and the diversity of the world’s unique cultures. Solomon’s active brushstrokes, combined with quiet glazes, capture a moment in time as reality blurs into abstraction and clarity gives way to obscurity. In telling her story, the paint becomes Solomon’s partner—as she states, “its texture, its vibrancy, its very nature becomes a crucial component, enabling me to process and speak of that which I see in our shared world.”

WEBSITE: www.maxinesolomon.com

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