Artwork of the Week 2023
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Artwork of the Week: Lesaka Waken
While the monumentality of Lesaka Waken feels impossibly vast, anchored to both land and the highest of stratospheres, it also connects to the optics of relatively small.
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Artwork of the Week: May 22, 2023
Jesus, whilst confronted with a murderous horde prepared to execute a woman “taken in the very act of adultery,” chose to not respond to the mob’s shouted confrontations and demands for capital punishment. Instead, the Lord remained thoughtful, somber, and ultimately articulate as he subtly and silently communicated to the venomous bystanders by inscribing His commentary/invocation in the sand.
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Artwork of the Week: May 15, 2023
First, consider the act of climbing a tree—a dauntless act for a big kid. So naturally, it is the eldest and tallest, a confident Mahonri has buccaneered his way above the groundlings.
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Artwork of the Week: May 8, 2023
Consider the gorgeous spring green, one such as you’ve never experienced in nature. The foreground is a verdigris pea-soup sprinkled with meadow blooms conforming to the color scheme of the other flowers.
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Artwork of the Week: May 1, 2023
As we approach the May-Day activities from the lower left, three young boys are full of vigor and exuberance.
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Artwork of the Week: April 24, 2023
This sculpture depicts an anonymous body suspended in the moment of resurrection. The burial rags clinging to the figure’s frame begin to slough off as the body rises from its pedestal.
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Artwork of the Week: April 17, 2023
“Symbolism can connect us to the divine,” artist Ron Richmond assures us. In his work Triplus, Number 3, Richmond presents many spiritual symbols.
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Artwork of the Week: April 10, 2023
Originally exhibited in the Logan Utah Temple, this scene depicts Christ as he appeared to Mary by the tomb.
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Artwork of the Week: March 27, 2023
This week’s art selection was chosen to celebrate the long-awaited arrival of Spring. Edward Redfield was one of the most prominent American Impressionists associated with an art colony located in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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Artwork of the Week: March 20, 2023
Dixon’s poetry reveals his complicated feelings about living in the city – he was a resident of San Francisco for most of his life, but his heart longed for grand vistas and open space.
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Artwork of the Week: March 13, 2023
Dagnan-Bouveret portrays the Virgin and Child resting quietly in a simple carpenter’s shop. The Infant’s divine glow penetrates Mary’s veil and emphasizes His divinity. Jesus’ placement, nestled against her chest, suggests the notion that Mary kept her sacred, maternal insights about His identity in her heart, private but profoundly felt because of their intimate kinship.
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Artwork of the Week: March 6, 2023
Based on the style of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, this poster image was created as part of an exhibition titled Images of Survival, organized by the Shoshin Society in Washington, DC.
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Artwork of the Week: January 30, 2023
Rather than focus on glittery winter trees, or the warm glow emanating from a snow-covered home (both of which appear in this painting), Julian Joseph emphasizes a buried street, no doubt an impressionistic influence...
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Artwork of the Week: January 23, 2023
Edna Andrade, like many Op Artists of the 1970s, sought to remove herself from the artwork she created...
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