Fresno Art Museum: Sept. 6 - October 31, 2005

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Translucent Meditations:
Creative Process and the Redemptive Journey
Curated by Jacquelin Pilar

Junko Chodos: Distinguished Woman Artist of the Year, 2005

at the Fresno Art Museum
2233 North First Street
Fresno, CA 93703
Sep. 6 - Oct. 31, 2005

At the opening of this exhibit, Junko Chodos delivered two lectures, each of which took approximately 50 minutes to read:

On Friday, Sep. 9th, at 4:00 PM, "Spiritual Refugee".

On Saturday, Sep. 10th, at 1:00 P.M., "Artistic Experience as Religious Experience".

The text of the first lecture may be downloaded here, for personal use: the artist reserves all copyright in her lectures.

SpiritualRefugeeSep9.pdf

Here is a reproduction of the Paul Klee painting to which Junko referred in the lecture:
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Individuation Journal, No. 2 (1995)
Sumi ink and acrylic on Mylar
80 x 42 in.
Text from Erich Fromm:
"As long as one was an integral part
of that world, unaware of the possibilities
and responsibilities of individual
action, one did not need to be
afraid of it. When one becomes an individual one stands alone and faces the world in all its perilous and
overpowering aspects.
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