origIN Femme Selected works by Janet Morgan at Brooklyn Lyceum's Main Stage

Scenes from the reception, March 24th, photos by Loren Polans.

The three walls of the exhibition, each piece is around 8 by 8 feet, acrylic on muslin.                       it keeps going.......this way...

15 large acrylic paintings, 8 by 8 feet each, fill the space of the Brooklyn Lyceum (formerly Public Bath #7) with color and movement. It is appropriate that these works that are so inspired by dance and music should be shown in a space used for concerts, films and lively events of all kinds. This big exhibition wouldn’t fit in most galleries, but here the work has found a home as the aerialists practice their in-the-air dance and people in the café watch and drink their espressos.

 “origIN: Femme is an exhibit dedicated to depicting the female energy associated with all forces of life and nature. As our perception of the new year begins, we rediscover the powers of regrowth, change and evolution. No being is more powerful an example of new life than the woman."                                                                                             -Jillann Hertel, Curator

"My art grows out of an intense desire to experience it all, to taste and smell, to dance and fly and always to learn. I have traveled widely, studied art, archeology, belly dance, music, Mongolian , creative arts therapies, history and costume. All of these things go into my art, along with the desire to express the upheavals of mountains, the passion of movement from the belly, the flows and counter flows of music, the earth body and the human body. All this is grist for my mill."                                                                             -Janet Morgan, Artist

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