RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK - VOTE #AOP2018
ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
Every Spring, the family of Robert Elmer Sears rents cottages by the lake to be together for a week: five sons and daughters, and their spouses, 13 grand kids, and nine great-grands. Most extended families get together for the obligatory holidays, weddings, and funerals, but not this one. Family gatherings are their weekly norm, but this weekend was an obligatory one. It was a funeral for the family patriarch, Robert Sears. During the eulogy his youngest child shared the story of his driving them in one of his vintage cars, and playfully warning them to “be ready to jump if the brakes fail.” Greg’s Uncle Bobby is now gone, but those brakes did not fail because Christ brought him home safely, as he’ll bring us all home one day.
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By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
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| "Triumphal Entry" by Brian Jekel. A framed print hangs in home of Robert & Marva Sears, Minnesota. |
Are you an artist? Are you a collector? If you like what you see each week, please invite a friend to subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter. You can also follow us weekly on Twitter, Facebook, or Soundcloud but only subscribers can vote for the Alpha Omega Prize. It is our annual recognition each November of one artist's impact on religious dialogue in America.
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| October 2017 - Bill Viola’s decades-spanning video art show in Guangzhou a spiritual pleasure that freezes the viewer to the spot |
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| November 2017 - Makoto Fujimura’s "Charis-Kairos (The Tears of Christ)" at Museum of the Bible during grand opening |
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| December 2017 - "Zoo of Lusts" (2015) by Jeremie Riggleman. Acrylic, photos & resin, Edition of 5 & AP |
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| January 2018 - Karen Fitzgerald's "Annunciation II" (2016), 36” diameter, oil with 23k and 21k gold on panel. |
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| February 2018 - Carole P. Kunstadt's "Sacred Poem XI," 7.5 × 8 × 1.5 in. 24 karat gold leaf, gampi tissue, thread, paper: pages from Parish Psalmody dated 1844. Private Collection |
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| March 2018 - Gary Gee's "Even with a Cracked Crown, a King is Still a King" (2018). Underglaze, hematite, black diamond, and gold luster on ceramic. 6' x 3-1/3" x 3 |
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| April 2018 - Kehinde Wiley's "Lamentation Series" |
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| May 2018 - Patrick McGrath Muniz's "Cruz Y Ficcion" (2018) in CREDO exhibition. Oil on canvas, 42 x 80 inches |
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| June 2018 - Ramon Maiden tattoos Christ, the Virgin Mary and other Christian images |
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| July 2018 - Bill Viola's video game to explore a spiritual journey |
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| August 2018 - Stephen Sawyer's "Calvary" explores heroin addiction |
