LENORE HUGHES: The Light That Never Goes Out
Rotunda Gallery
LENORE HUGHES
The Light That Never Goes Out
March 19–April 30, 2022
Over her 45-year career, artist and author Lenore Tolegian Hughes has focused on finding new meanings for the big questions in life by combining classic divine images with contemporary secular pop images. She comments, “Candle wax has long been associated with daily life and ceremonial rituals. These Vessels of Grace, are inspired by the same candles we arrange on birthday cakes for the making of a wish; candles which were used in ancient days to light the way in the dark, to illuminate the pageantry of Roman processions … in recent days the lights seem to have gone out, and our wishes for things to return to normal are taking their time to come true. Since we are being forced to go inside, why not go deep inside? Into the one light that never goes out, the light deep in the soul that guides us toward eternal light.”
Hughes received her BA in Education at Cal State University Los Angeles, and MA in Theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.
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