Art Opening at Ursa Major Gallery of Paintings by Michael Katz
The show is scheduled for viewing from December 16-January 31.
The Ursa Major Gallery is a small eclectic gallery founded in 2010 with a focus on paintings and other works that have a clear connection to the artist's development of inner life and vision. The direction is towards multi-media pieces and performance of spoken art. It is located in Shelburne Falls, MA at 1 Deerfield Street.
Artist's Statement
The artist is akin to the alchemist transforming mundane into transcendent as an alternative to the
gross materialism and deadening conformity too present in our daily life.
In my art I seek to communicate a sense of possibility, freedom, energy, and spontaneity as I weave symbols and a personal vocabulary into multimedia art pieces. I hope to communicate and invite viewers into the act of creation as they enter and share symmetry, vibrant color,organization and jazzy rhythms with me. My work is frequently suggestive of inner dynamism, mystical forms and elusive meanings that excite and linger just beyond the tip of the tongue.
Michael Katz
Exhibition Dec 16th- Jan 31
Gallery hours Sat- 10- 4
Sun- 1-5
and by appointment 413-824-0502
The paintings of Michael Katz create a dimension in the space of the canvas, and events in color and form, with movement, in the microcosm of the two dimensional world. Each canvas contains references
which, through the discipline of painting,
Katz playfully orchestrates into a whole. His work is fresh and genuine, whether in abstract expressionist mode or figurative or a blend of both.
Katz has written two books on dreams, Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, and Tibetan Dream Yoga, the Royal Road to Enlightenment, and lectures and teaches on this subject, using his research and studies to help others to achieve lucidity and awareness in dreaming. His career as a psychologist has helped him to put this work into a western context, while the framework of his studies is largely that of Tibetan Buddhism with the Dzogchen Master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. He has been an instructor of Yantra Yoga. He is also the author of a fiction book, The White Dolphin, which seeks to raise awareness of environmental issues, and a book of poetry, The Crossing.
