Seminars

CAM-16 ~ Arts Focus Group: "Daniel in Babylon:  Still Seeing Beauty While in Captivity" with Bruce Herman

Christian artist and educator Bruce Herman brings his deep faith, visual sensibility, and careful thinking about the influence of art and pop-culture on our sense of self to this series of seminar discussions. Participants will view mini-presentations on art and contemporary culture and then engage in wide-ranging discussions about beauty and its deep roots in Christology – along with the implications for self-understanding of the artist in Christian community.

Bruce Herman (M.F.A. Boston University School for the Arts) is a painter living and working in Gloucester, MA. He is currently Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the Fine Arts at Gordon College. He lectures widely and has had work published in many books, journals, and popular magazines.  His artwork has been exhibited in eleven major U.S. cities and in five different countries. Herman’s work is housed in public and private collections, including the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art in Rome, the DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts, and the Armand Hammer Collection at UCLA.  His paintings, prints, and drawings explore the perennial human dilemma – the longing for transcendence and the paradoxical reality of human mortality with all its melancholy, hope, and comic/tragic truth. He also frequently draws upon the Bible for images and inspiration, finding in it an inexhaustible reservoir of beauty and meaning.

 

 

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