![]() ![]() Margaret Adams Parker’s “Madonna, Angola” and “Pieta (Station XIII)” and Janet McKenzie’s “Holy Mother of Comfort and Solace” and “Pieta – the Suffering” are four unforgettable examples. As you will see when you view the artworks and read the artists’ statements about their work(s), the depictions are inclusive racially, celebrating the beauty and dignity of not only the traditionally white or Caucasian Mary, the earthly mother, but also of the beautiful Black Madonna, imbued with strength, love, and compassion, even in the face of immense suffering. Viewers are encouraged to meditate on her similarities to us humans, and not as so different and apart.įor this exhibition, I invited artists to consider Mary in contemporary contexts - conceptually, imaginatively, evocatively, even emotionally. To prompt a different way of thinking about, perceiving, and seeing Mary, seeing her not so iconographic or abstract, and reflecting on what she might mean to us in our society today so that we might connect to her in a more intimate way. What might Mary as a contemporary of ours in the 21 st Century look like? It is that question that the artworks in this exhibition are intended to answer. Mormons, who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also do not worship Mary, though they do recognize her in the Book of Mormon as “a precious and chosen vessel” (Alma 7:10). ![]() For other religious, such as members of Jehovah Witnesses, Mary occupies no special place in worship. That she is the only woman mentioned by name in the holy book of Islam bestows upon her a unique mark of honor. Mentioned more than 50 times in the New Testament, Mary is referred to some 70 times in the Qur’an where, as Maryam, she is revered as the Virgin Mother of Jesus, Allah’s chosen one, above all other women (Qur’an 3:42). She has been depicted in a 4 th Century Roman catacomb, in drawings, in folk imagery, as tattoos, in murals, on prayer and greeting cards, as statuary. Such renowned artists as Artemisia Gentileschi, Fra Filippo Lippi, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli, Caravaggio, Rafael, Paul Gauguin, Rufino Tamayo, and Gerhard Richter have all envisioned and visualized Mary. ~ Luke 1:38Īn inspiration to countless artists over many centuries, Mary has been painted or depicted in other media in many different versions and roles - as woman, daughter, cousin, mother, wife, refugee, comforter, intercessory to Jesus, the Madonna, the Virgin, Goddess, a mortal, an immortal, an exemplar of purity, the Divine Feminine. I think it all speaks to the gullibility of followers in that they choose to believe a myth that says a god sent an angel to rape a virgin who then gave birth to a baby that knew, in it's consciousness from the beginning, that it was to grow up and be put to death via Rome's capital punishment device, (Crucifixion) and then raise from the dead so that all peoples sins are forgiven forever as long as they believe the story.I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. The way I see it if someone can sell a toasted cheese sandwich on EBAY for a small $fortune because Mary appears in the toasting, people will pay or believe in anything. People there were flocking to a nearby office building across the bay because humidity had made a Virgin Mary image appear in the glass. ![]()
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