ANATOMY OF THE SOUL EXHIBITION (2016)
/In his preface to the Psalter, John Calvin referred to the book of Psalms as, “An Anatomy of All the Parts of the Soul”. He believed you could not find an emotion expressed in the world that was not present within the Psalms - grief, sorrow, fear, doubt, hope, care, perplexity, wonder. Calvin believed that by perusing the Psalmist’s compositions, we would be both awakened to our own maladies as well as instructed to seek the remedy for their cure.
This curated exhibition invited the artist to peruse these compositions and submit work that explores this broad range of human experience. Calvin understood the soul not as a fixed muscle in stasis, but a multifaceted complex organ emanating a spectrum of emotions and heartfelt expressions. This exhibition sought to portray work that addresses the range of these expressions and complexities of experience found throughout the Psalms.
