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ryoan-ji
October 22 - December 7, 2012
new river
October 29 - December 7, 2012
Reception 5-7 pm / Tuesday Oct 30
Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery / Wake Forest University
Curated by Paul Bright, Director
John Cage / Rocks: Ryoan-ji & New River is an exhibition of drawings and watercolors. Concerning these works, the artist remarked: “I worked once or twice [a year] at the Crown Point Press. Etchings. Once Kathan Brown said, ‘You wouldn’t just sit down and draw.’ Now I do: drawings around stones, stones placed on a grid at chance-determined points. These drawings have also made musical notation: Renga, Score and Twenty‑three Parts, and Ryoanji (but drawing from left to right, halfway around a stone). Ray Kass, an artist who teaches watercolor at Virginia Tech, became interested in my graphic work with chance operations. With his aid and that of students he enlisted I have made fifty‑two watercolors. And those have led me to aquatints, brushes, acids, and their combination with fire, smoke, and stones with etchings.”
From “An Autobiographical Statement” by John Cage, written for the Inamori Foundation and delivered in Kyoto as a commemorative lecture in response to having received the Kyoto Prize in November 1989. Courtesy of the John Cage Trust.
Events
The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Watercolors
4-5 pm / Tuesday October 30
Artist Ray Kass, who worked with Cage on his last prints and watercolors, will give the opening talk for the Hanes Gallery exhibition John Cage/Rocks.
Ray Kass is a nationally recognized painter and writer from Virginia. He is Emeritus Professor of Studio Art at Virginia Tech and Founder and Director of the Mountain Lake Workshop, an ongoing series of community-based collaborative art projects. His paintings have been widely exhibited and he is author of Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye, and co-author of John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures.
Additional Information
Wake Forest University's CAGEFEST
Review - Winston Salem Journal
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