Christian Artist Gina Hurry: 'Painting Connects Me to God's Heart'

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By Marissa Martin

"The Great Unraveling" by Gina Hurry is inspired by the scripture Hosea 6:1

GEORGIA---Torn between being an artist or missionary when she was younger, [Gina] Hurry had to overcome the mental block that only official missionaries were of any use to the church and artists merely peripheral. “How could art be redemptive in itself?” she puzzled, with few books on the subject to refer to at the time. A few decades later Hurry tends to a prosperous painting career and a busy family, but her vision extends just past, to a place where art and the church intersect and revive each other. A nebulous and undefined land to labor, it is also scarred with theological and cultural divides. Still Hurry digs up the soil, invites the neighbors and sets about planning and planting with eyes toward a future spiritual and aesthetic feast. [link]

Gina Hurry is currently showing August 2012 at dk Gallery, 25 West Park Square, Marietta, Ga.