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Paintings by Michael Elijah Wenham

Wed, Mar 09

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Rama's Turkish Wellness

See paintings by Michael Elijah Wenham at Rama's Bread this month.

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Paintings by Michael Elijah Wenham
Paintings by Michael Elijah Wenham

Time & Location

Mar 09, 2022, 7:00 PM – Mar 31, 2022, 11:00 PM

Rama's Turkish Wellness, 211 F St, Salida, CO 81201, USA

About the event

Art expresses the ineffable and it is not complete until it is viewed.

-   Thank you for helping to complete these works of art!  - Michael Elijah Wenham

I have always drawn pictures and made “art”. Art school offered opportunity to explore life drawing, ceramics, bronze casting, printmaking, and much more. I gravitated away from representational art, drawing what I could see, toward “abstract” and expressionist works, drawing what I couldn’t see, but felt. Many of the intaglio prints are examples of this exploration. I also was intrigued and inspired by religious paintings, pre-enlightment era.

The triptych wood cut print, “The Passion of Saint Bernard”, is a playful work about social shaming of our desires. The dog, which we are supposed to identify with, isn’t really a Saint Bernard dog. He desires the egg, a symbol of life, but is withdrawing from the viewer because of conditioning. The snakes…

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