GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Hillman-Jackson Gallery in The Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon's Rock will present Free-Form: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Fiber Works by Lucien Dante Lazar. 

 

Opening Reception Monday, Feb. 10 at 5:30PM. Artist's Talk 6PM.

 

According to a press release: 

 

In Free-Form, Lucien Dante Lazar explores the activity of creating as an initiative of love and freedom. He is interested in how human beings can learn to realize themselves as spiritual beings living an earthly experience; and through this realization, to develop agency in becoming emblems of truth, beauty, and goodness for the sake of each other and the world. Through a synthesis of self-transformation and transpersonal experience, Free-Form moves through dialectics of color and form that shape and liberate human consciousness into a consciously free discipline of artistic- scientific-spiritual research into human development. Through paintings, drawings, and fiber works, Lazar hopes to shed light on, and offer hope for, the questions and challenges lying at the root of human identity today. Curated by Jacob Fossum, Bard College at Simon's Rock Faculty in Painting and Drawing.

 

Lucien Dante Lazar (b. June 24th, 1994 in Evanston, IL) is an interdisciplinary artist whose praxis is founded in the intersections of art, science, and spirituality. After his primary and secondary education at Chicago Waldorf School, he received his AA from Bard College at Simon's Rock (2013), his BA from Bard College (2016), and his MFA from California College of the Arts (2020). Lazar is currently working on his PhD in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies. In support of his doctoral work, Lazar is also enrolled in a full-time training at Eurythmy Spring Valley, as well as a part time training at Steiner School of Speech Arts. Additionally, he is enrolled in a part time training through the Association for Anthroposophical Psychology. His dissertation will constitute a unique pedagogy of spiritual development through the diversity of the arts.