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Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Published 1994. Wraps, 20 pp.; 28 cm; The Art of Greater Los Angeles in the 1990s, vol. 4, no. 1; illustrated with 13 figures (7 color, 6 black-and-white) and color reproductions on both covers. Exhibition organized by Gordon L. Fuglie, with essays by Fuglie (Frame), Michael Schrauzer (Lasworth), Ruth Weisberg (Saether) and Fr. Luke Dysinger, OSB (Schrauzer).
In Very Good condition. Glossy cream illustrated paper covers, Saether's The Rock and the Star to front, Lasworth's St. Thomas and Mr. Eco to rear; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear, scattered small specks, some scuffing to rear cover. Staple bound; binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Catalogue of a touring exhibition of four Southern California artists working from Christian and Gnostic traditions, shown at the Laband Art Gallery, October 26 - December 3, 1994, then at Biola University, Palm Springs Desert Museum and St. Mary's College, Moraga, through March 1996. Part of Towards a Greater Realm, an exposition on spirituality, myth and contemporary art held at 11 Southern California galleries. Includes John Frame's wood sculpture When Locusts Come and Blind Joe; Frame had solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 and the Huntington Library in 2011. Laura Lasworth's graphite drawings respond to the Tarot, and her diptych St. Thomas and Mr. Eco pairs Thomas Aquinas with Umberto Eco. Jan Valentin Saether, Norwegian painter and Gnostic priest, studied in Oslo with Odd Nerdrum and became professor of figurative painting at the Oslo academy in 1996; works include Magus and the triptych Anathema. Michael Schrauzer's hinged Altarpiece draws on van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece.