Kairos Gallery Exhibit Opening
Event Details
- To The Lowest Places by Dawn Waters Baker
- Kairos Gallery Opening Reception
- Sunday, September 13, after the 9 & 10:45 services
- Meet the artist, Dawn Waters Baker
- Refreshments will be served
The Kairos Gallery is pleased to present ‘To The Lowest Places’ a collection of original works by Texas artist Dawn Waters Baker. This collection of stunning paintings will have an Opening reception where you can meet the artist Sunday morning September 13 and will run through Nov 29.
Her work will fill both Kairos Gallery spaces and will include her newly completed Jeremiah series, about which she says, “These works came from reading the book of Jeremiah over and over again for over a year. I have been learning so much what it means to weep, what it means that we have a God who weeps, who FEELS. God chooses this sensitive poet to witness so much pain. The world was overcome by lust for power, territory and pleasure. Jeremiah cries into the void: remember the orphan! The widow! The oppressed!”
About Dawn Waters Baker
“Beauty is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend,” writes Eugene Peterson. Dawn Waters Baker, referring to her work, likes to think of it as “trying to capture the emotional and spiritual landscape.” She’s looking for a deeper beauty than what’s on the surface, or in spite of it. “I am not as interested in what is literally there as much as what is felt through water, earth, atmosphere, and sky. These are my visual attempts at translating our shared human story through the metaphor of nature while also giving a glimpse into the ‘more’ that is embedded there.”
Through layering thin oil glazes, Dawn translates the emotional and spiritual essence of nature into landscapes. Water, earth, atmosphere, and sky become veiled glimpses into a deeper reality. Her work bridges traditional and contemporary, the physical and spiritual. Her upbringing in the Philippines, marked by both beauty and hardship, informs her exploration of the world’s inherent tension: light and dark, glory and earthliness.
Dawn is a Signature member of Artists of Texas. She is affiliated with Waterfall Gallery in New York, NY, and J Peeler Howell Gallery in Ft. Worth, TX. She was also selected as the 2015 Artist in Residence for Big Bend National Park, 2018 Artist in Residence for Gettysburg National Military Park and 2019 and 2026 Artist in Residence for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
About The Kairos Gallery
The Kairos Gallery is a dual exhibit space inside the main campus of St. Andrew’s Church. We are located in the Old Village of Mount Pleasant, just across the river from Charleston, SC. Gallery hours are: Monday through Thursday 8:30AM-5PM, Friday, 8:30AM-2PM & Sunday, 8AM-12PM. For more information contact Kristy Barry: KBarry@StAndrews.Church or 843-284-4351.