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Prayer / Pattern / Prayer
Group exhibition | Curated by Jan Dickey, 9 January - 15 February 2025
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Prayer / Pattern / Prayer: Group exhibition | Curated by Jan Dickey

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Installation Views
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Prayer/Pattern/Prayer Installation View, 2025
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Prayer/Pattern/Prayer Installation View, 2025
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Prayer/Pattern/Prayer Installation View, 2025
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Prayer/Pattern/Prayer Installation View, 2025

 

 

Works
  • Richard Tinkler, M6BX17.1, 2024

    Richard Tinkler, M6BX17.1, 2024

  • Richard Tinkler, S6B32.1, 2024

    Richard Tinkler, S6B32.1, 2024

  • Lehuauakea, Puka Homo 'Ekahi: Portal to Grant Permission, 2024

    Lehuauakea, Puka Homo 'Ekahi: Portal to Grant Permission, 2024

  • Beck Lowry, Resilience, 2024

    Beck Lowry, Resilience, 2024

  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Beck Lowry Burning Red, 2022
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Beck Lowry Burning Red, 2022
  • Miguel Arzabe Cumpleaños, 2024

    Miguel Arzabe Cumpleaños, 2024

  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Richard Tinkler HB4.1, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Richard Tinkler HB4.1, 2024
  • Aya Uekawa, Anonymous (Strength), 2022
    Aya Uekawa, Anonymous (Strength), 2022
  • Aya Uekawa, Ms. Spiderlily, 2023
    Aya Uekawa, Ms. Spiderlily, 2023
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Miguel ArzabeLas Reinitas I, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Miguel ArzabeLas Reinitas I, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu band, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu band, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu baggage, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu baggage, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu Ribbon, Rain, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu Ribbon, Rain, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu tiles / title / tiles, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu tiles / title / tiles, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu Time Travel, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu Time Travel, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu Inaugural, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu Inaugural, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen LuCosmic, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Ingrid Yi-Chen LuCosmic, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Myles Bennett Manner of Hanon #11, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Myles Bennett Manner of Hanon #11, 2024
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Beck LowryStorms Worth Naming, 2023
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Beck LowryStorms Worth Naming, 2023
  • PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Lilian Shtereva sitting on a stump with a pillow sham, near the shrub roses - close to home, 2024
    PRAYER. PATTERN. PRAYER, Lilian Shtereva sitting on a stump with a pillow sham, near the shrub roses - close to home, 2024
Press release

Miguel Arzabe            Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu
Myles Bennett            Lilian Shtereva
Lehuauakea                Richard Tinkler
Beck Lowry                 Aya Uekawa

Pattern runs deep in the cultural fabric of the human race. The oldest depictions of patterns are crisscrossed lines and the outlines of human hands on Ancient cave walls. At a site like Cuevas de las Manos, Río Pinturas in Argentina, a layered alternation of earth pigments and repeated hand shapes produce a visual rhythm that echoes all the way from Prehistory to the Present; stimulating vibrations in the back of our eyes that lay a nonlinear and nonliteral order over Ancient rock. Today an amazing variety of patterns, with all sorts of cultural connotations, crackle across our metal, drywall, and polyester, singing with the same old-time music of repetition and alternation. Everywhere, pattern gives meaning and mystery to undefined space, and continues to light up the human mind.

Pattern must provide an intangible that no human culture can live without. Why else would we continue to use it to liven up dwellings, to activate outfits, to decorate our precious little objects, to tell each other stories, and to bring us face to face with the almighty power of Spirit, Universe, God? The persistent and enduring nature of pattern is both quotidian and transcendent.

For artists, the process of inscribing patterns on surfaces, directly manipulating warp and weft, or bringing preexisting patterns side by side is akin to Prayer. The careful act of repeating and altering has an effect on the creator’s mind that serves to dislodge them from their individuality, their sense of self, or Ego. This ritualism, inherent to patterning, distinguishes it from other creative acts.

 

Prayer / Pattern / Prayer connects a group of eight artists who all partake in the prayer of pattern; but who each draw from distinct cultural and material vocabularies. The purpose of the exhibition is to look at what contemporary approaches to pattern share in common, and to provide a space in which we can better appreciate differences in the way that living artists relate to a profound and timeless practice.

 

- Jan Dickey, Winter 2025

 

 

 

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Press
  • Installation view.

    Prayer / Pattern / Prayer at Morgan Lehman

    Will Kaplan, Art Spiel, January 23, 2025
  • Installation view.

    Sacred Threads: ‘Prayer / Pattern / Prayer’ Weaves Art and Spirituality at Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC

    Terra Keck, ARTE FUSE, January 23, 2025
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