Christians in the Visual Arts

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artwork from the Christians in the Visual Arts exhibit, “Work: Curse or Calling?” Please check out CIVA’s website for more information on scheduling the exhibit for your own church, school, or workplace, and to see the other images from the exhibit (there are 28 in all.) The Pyramid of Cestus, Rome Mark Phillip Venema (Montreal, Quebec) Archival pigment print 2009 18” x 36” Mark Venma’s The Pyramid of Cestus, Rome is a “triptych of time, change, ephemerality and permanence” that invites consideration on the nature of work, “its calling or its shadowing curse.”

From CIVA's traveling exhibit WORK: curse or calling The Slow Work of God Deborah Risa Mrantz (Santa Fe, NM) Fused media; digital substrate laminate to black aluminum 2009 30” x 21” Deborah Mrantz’s graphic art, The Slow Work of God, combines typography and iconography “visually sculpting the language of God’s word.” By including the sixth century Byzantine Sinai Christ Mrantz gives the work its punch. It visually stops the viewer in their tracks just long enough to allow God’s presence to infiltrate the soul. The intense gaze of the Sinai Christ evinces the skill of the Constantinopolitan artist intended to yield a direct and powerful connection with the viewer. The flat angular shapes and text work in concert to coerce the eye toward the icon and chart the often slow, but amazing work of God.

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