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APRIL 2024, HOAG HALL ART, Erika Leeuwenburgh, ARTIST
A reception will be held SUNDAY, APRIL 21, from 11:30-1:30 PM.
Christ Church Pelham, 1415 Pelhamdale Ave, Pelham Manor, NY 10803
Erika Leeuwenburgh received her Bachelors in Fine Arts at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland and a Masters in Art Therapy at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Art has been an integral part of her personal and professional life as an art therapist.
In 2023 artist and art therapist, Erika Leeuwenburgh, created Mandalas daily. This exhibition presents a select few of those Mandalas with her reflections. The reflections speak to both her conscious and unconscious experiences of art that flowed into a circle.
MANDALA is a word that comes from Sanskrit meaning CIRCLE and completion. Mandalas made from sand, stain glass or a variety of art materials are created in many spiritual traditions often symbolizing God, the cosmos, a soul, self, or a microcosm of the universe. The circle is a universal (archetypical) symbol with a wide variety of meanings such as wholeness, cyclic movement, timelessness. Humans have always seen circles in the sun, moon, or a human face and in turn created wheels, clocks, and other circular items to advance societies.
The act of making a mandala is often associated with focusing attention to facilitate prayer, meditation and centering or accessing the unconscious with the goal of creating a sense of unity, oneness (with God or the cosmos), greater awareness and inner peace. The Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, created daily mandalas for self-analysis and believed it was a representation of the unconscious self.
She resides in Northern New Jersey.
If you or someone you know would like to display artwork in Hoag Hall, please contact Patrice Fitzpatrick at [email protected] or 914-393-1885.
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