MYSTIC REALMS are magical, meditative paintings
that have a subtle luminosity.
"Lerner’s paintings are clearly spiritual in import",
says art historian Donald Kuspit, writing in the exhibition
catalogue. "The overall-all geometry and atmosphere of
Lerner's paintings — their tightly closed planes, sacred
architecture and intense energy, just as indwelling —
suggest their meditative character," he writes. "Clearly
the central sacred structure — symbolizing the spiritual
aspiration of the painting as a whole — is a meditative
device."
"Lerner repeats it like the sacred syllable "om".
Kuspit continues, "inducing a similar exalted, transcendent
state of mind. Her paintings convey this altered consciousness
even as they ‘demonstrate’ the process of alteration.
"They remind us that there is more than one kind if
consciousness, just as string theory reminds us that there
is more than one universe. Lerner shows us that abstract art
as well a theoretical science can be a way of contemplating
and representing this unpresentable timeless truth."
Lerner’s paintings incorporate "Rothkoesque light ... the symmetrical compositions
are punctuated by transcendentally suggestive symbols."
Johnson, Ken, review, The New York Times, Thursday 8, 2004 |
