Event Listing - Arts, Galleries
Fri Oct 2 - Sat Nov 21

Thérèse Lahaie

Longing for the Background

Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 2, 6 - 9 PM


Tel. 415.577.7537
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Location
Date and Time
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
25 Grand Avenue, upper level
Oakland, CA 94612
cross street: Broadway
district: Oakland

Fri Oct 2 (6 - 9 PM) - Opening Reception
Sat Oct 3 (12 - 3 PM)
Fri Oct 9 (4 - 7 PM)
Sat Oct 10 (12 - 3 PM)
Fri Oct 16 (4 - 7 PM)

Description
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary is pleased to present Longing for the Background, a solo show of work by Thérèse Lahaie on view October 2 – November 21, 2009. This is Lahaie’s second exhibition and her first solo exhibition at CCC. The opening reception will be held Friday, October 2 from 6 – 9 PM in conjunction with Oakland’s Art Murmur.

Since the late 1980’s, Thérèse Lahaie has explored themes of navigation, meditation and the possibility of enlightenment. Her most recent exhibition of sculptures, photography and site-specific installations synthesizes these themes using mapping and global/celestial travel as metaphors for spiritual pursuit. At the base of this body of work is Lahaie’s understanding that we commonly exist within the “foreground” of reality, which is skewed by distorted perceptions, unlike the “background,” uncolored by personal judgment. Through meditation, which empties the mind of judgments, one may attain moments of unmediated present-ness.