Luminous Bodies Circles of Celebration

The Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works V2N2

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Pub Date 15 Oct 2016 | Archive Date 14 May 2017

Description

Luminous Bodies is a work of celebration and mourning in two volumes of 45 watercolors in each volume. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul.

The first volume is Luminous Bodies: Circles of Celebration. The second volume is Luminous Bodies: Circles of Mourning.

Luminous Bodies is a work of celebration and mourning in two volumes of 45 watercolors in each volume. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and...


A Note From the Publisher

Robin Hamlyn is Senior Curator, Tate Britain Collections, 1780-1860 and a world renowned William Blake expert.

Peter Trippi is Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur.

The Art Exhibition of all 90 Luminous Bodies Water Colors of Melinda Camber Porter, will be the first time all 90 watercolors will be exhibited at one time. This is in the expansive Exhibition Hall at the University of South Dakota September 19 to October 14, 2016.

Robin Hamlyn is Senior Curator, Tate Britain Collections, 1780-1860 and a world renowned William Blake expert.

Peter Trippi is Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur.

The Art Exhibition of all 90...


Advance Praise

“In order to produce art like Melinda Camber Porter’s Luminous Bodies you have to be like William Blake. You have to be like Melinda Camber Porter. You have to be absolutely fearless.” Robin Hamlyn (Senior Curator, Tate Britain Collections, 1780-1860 and world renowned William Blake expert).

“In an art market crowded with hollow protestations of “self-identity, Melinda Camber Porter’s works offer us a new cosmology and an authentic vision of our age.” Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur

“In order to produce art like Melinda Camber Porter’s Luminous Bodies you have to be like William Blake. You have to be like Melinda Camber Porter. You have to be absolutely fearless.” Robin Hamlyn...


Marketing Plan

A Major Art Exhibition September 19 - October 14, 2016

John A Day Gallery and Exhibition Hall

University of South Dakota

414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069

Contact: Michelle St. Vrain, 605-677-3177

USD Melinda Camber Porter Exhibition

of Art, Books and Films

September 19 – October 14, 2016

Special Events:

October 1, 2016, Saturday, 1pm – 5pm

Gallery for all groups and guests.

Bolers, Fliceks and O’Gorman

October 7, 2016, Friday, 3pm – 5pm

Gallery open with refreshments

On Homecoming D-Days for all, Alumni, Betas and guests.

October 8, 2016, Saturday, 9am – 2pm

Gallery open Homecoming D-Day for all, Alumni, Betas and guests.

Melinda Camber Porter passed away of ovarian cancer in 2008 and left a significant body of work in art, film, and literature. With her London-Oxford-Paris-New York background as a journalist for The Times (London), she explored the creative process used by many widely acclaimed cultural figures. She visited South Dakota frequently and wrote her widely praised novel, Badlands, set on Pine Ridge Reservation. Her acclaimed creative works as an artist, journalist and writer, express a world view for all of humanity to enjoy. www.MelindaCamberPorter.com

This USD Exhibition is the first time, that all 90 Luminous Bodies watercolors and 27 Triptych oil paintings art series are presented in one venue, along with her books and films. This is made possible by the University of South Dakota community and their expansive John A Day Gallery and Exhibition Hall.

USD Melinda Camber Porter Exhibition

of Art, Books and Films

September 19 – October 14, 2016

Luminous Bodies series are works of celebration and mourning with 90 watercolors.

These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul. “In order to produce art like Luminous Bodies you have to be like William Blake, absolutely fearless.” Robin Hamlyn (Senior Curator, Tate Britain).

The Triptych series are 27 large oils on canvas exploring the triptych form as both altarpiece and sculptural shape. Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur states,

In an art market crowded with hollow protestations of “self-identity,” Melinda Camber Porter’s works offer us a new cosmology and an authentic vision of our age.

The John A. Day Gallery, at the University of South Dakota Fine Arts Building, is an expansive modern exhibition facility with ceilings of 20 feet and 184 feet of linear wall space. The John A. Day Gallery features over 15 multi-facet exhibitions each year. The John A. Day Gallery is open to the public and free of charge with hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. http://www.usd.edu/fine-arts/art

http://www.usd.edu/fine-arts/uag/john-a-day-gallery

Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works

Blake Press Publications 2016

Volume II: Art and Literature Series Books

International Standard Serial Numbers:

ISSN: 2379-2450 (Print), ISSN: 2379-3198 (Ebook), ISSN: 2379-321X (Audio)

Luminous Bodies: Circles of Celebration

Volume 2, Number 2:

Foreward: Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur

Introduction: Melinda Camber Porter

Watercolors (Forty-five): Melinda Camber Porter

Ebook: (ISBN: 978-1-942231-12-7) $9.99, 140p, 50 illus., index, 2016.

Hardcover: (ISBN: 978-1-942231-49-3), $59.99, 8½x11, 140p, 50 illus., index, 2016.

Luminous Bodies is a work of celebration and mourning in two volumes of 45 watercolors in each volume. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul. Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine states, “In an art market crowded with hollow protestations of “self-identity,” Melinda Camber Porter’s works offer us a new cosmology and an authentic vision of our age.”

Inspired by many religious traditions of celebrations and mourning, from The Tibetan Book of the Dead to Native American mourning rituals, the series of drawings is, in actuality, a spiritual journey begun by Melinda Camber Porter a few days after the death of a loved one. The journey is narrated in drawings and in epigrammatic prose poetry inscribed within each watercolor. There is a strong "documentary" aspect to the work, which attempts to record faithfully the actual process of loss and resurrection of the lover in celebration and mourning.

Melinda Camber Porter passed away of ovarian cancer in 2008 and left a significant body of work in art, journalism, and literature. With her background as a journalist for the Times of London, her questions explored the creative process used by many widely acclaimed cultural figures, filmmakers, and writers. The Melinda Camber Porter Archive wishes to share these conversations with the public to ensure the continuation and expansion of the ideas expressed in her creative works.

Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works

Blake Press Publications 2016

Volume II: Art and Literature Series Books

International Standard Serial Numbers:

ISSN: 2379-2450 (Print), ISSN: 2379-3198 (Ebook), ISSN: 2379-321X (Audio)

Luminous Bodies: Circles of Mourning

Volume 2, Number 3:

Foreward: Robin Hamlyn, Senior Curator Blake, London Tate Museum

Introduction: Text and Forty-five watercolors by Melinda Camber Porter

Ebook: (ISBN: 978-1-942231-14.1) $9.99, 140p, illus., index, Nov 2015.

Hardcover: (ISBN: 978-1-942231-50-9) $59.99, 8½x11, 140p, illus., index, Sep 2016.

Luminous Bodies is a work of celebration and mourning in two volumes of 45 watercolors in each volume. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul.

In this volume, the Foreward, Robin Hamlyn states, “In order to produce art like Melinda Camber Porter’s Luminous Bodies you have to be like William Blake. You have to be like Melinda Camber Porter. You have to be absolutely fearless.” Robin Hamlyn (Senior Curator, Tate Britain Collections, 1780-1860 and world renowned William Blake expert). Inspired by many religious traditions of celebrations and mourning, from The Tibetan Book of the Dead to Native American mourning rituals, the series of drawings is, in actuality, a spiritual journey begun by Melinda Camber Porter a few days after the death of a loved one.

Melinda Camber Porter passed away of ovarian cancer in 2008 and left a significant body of work in art, journalism, and literature. With her background as a journalist for the Times of London, her questions explored the creative process used by many widely acclaimed cultural figures, filmmakers, and writers. The Melinda Camber Porter Archive wishes to share these conversations with the public to ensure the continuation and expansion of the ideas expressed in her creative works.

The first volume is Luminous Bodies: Circles of Celebration. The second volume is Luminous Bodies: Circles of Mourning.

www.MelindaCamberPorter.com


A Major Art Exhibition September 19 - October 14, 2016

John A Day Gallery and Exhibition Hall

University of South Dakota

414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069

Contact: Michelle St. Vrain...


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