Life Force- A solo exhibition by Jackie Mitchell Edwards
September 28th- October 21st
Opening Reception 9.28 6-9 pm
Introducing Founding Member, Jackie Mitchell Edwards, a multidisciplinary artist who lives in the foothills of the Organ Mountains in Southern New Mexico. Her work is mostly abstract and includes painting, collage, assemblage, and small sculptural objects. Jackie Mitchell Edwards was born in Monterey, California, and grew up in El Paso, Texas. She studied at the Art Students’ League in New York City and graduated from Princeton University and NYU Law School. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Texas and is in private and corporate collections.
Jackie’s Solo Exhibition explores the notion of “Life Force” as a mystery of revelation for each individual as they journey through life. Life Force is the energy that saturates the universe at all levels. All energies – vibrational, electrical, heat, light, gravity, magnetism, etc. are all elements of Life Force. Western scientific methods have ways of measuring these energies but don’t necessarily explain or understand their full impact on the body, mind, and soul. In the esoteric, spiritual realm, prana, pranava, qi, and the concept of breath are also referred to as Life Force, operating within the body, mind, and soul and are used by many for healing. But, for traditional Western science, these forces are hard to measure and it is difficult to attribute their impact in a way that science and allopathic medicine can explain. But, clearly, Life Force is constantly at work in both realms and defines not only the human experience but a universal one.
