Soo Shin

Untitled: blind dog. Oil on canvas. 36 x 36 inches. 2012*

My work deals with people’s journey of faith, bound for the desired destination. People seek and long for the light of truth, love or even a savior in their lives. However, those don’t always arrive under our feet easily. The works I have created are about the uncertainty and vulnerability of keeping the faith in our pursuit of meaning, or rather our pilgrimage, through a long period of not-knowing, or blindness.

Marlene Siff

Truth, Politics, Lies. Acrylic on linen. 42.75 x 40 x 16 inches. 2011

I am concerned with communicating a sense of harmony, balance, order and spirituality. We are all confronted on a daily basis with the fragmentation of our non-linear lives, trying, as in a puzzle, to make all the pieces fit together to make sense of it all. My paintings, works on paper, and sculpture depict imagery of personal events and psychological issues. They are expressed through geometric shapes, color, light, space, texture, edges and movement, all interplaying with one another engaging the viewer to participate.

Pauline Silberman

The first series of Megiddo (Armageddon) Artifacts was comprised of oils of vessels and continued with charcoal drawings of tools, weapons, and jewelry. Artifacts are wordless witnesses of their time. Though thousands of years have passed, vessels, tools, weapons and jewelry remain with us, as does war. We feel a kinship with the people who made them. In that way, we are BOUND to the past. The artifacts are held in the Oriental Institute of Chicago, and are from an archeological dig by the University of Chicago in the 1930s.