Lauren Raine MFA
Past and Current Work of artist Lauren Raine - masks, sculpture, performance arts, paintings.
Monday, February 13, 2023
A Shrine (and a new book) for Spider Woman
Saturday, December 3, 2022
A Shrine for the Lost: The Sixth Extinction
Monday, January 24, 2022
New Masks
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Joanna Hearing Music - for Joanna Brouk
My friend the composer Joanna Brouk always said that she heard music before she wrote it down. This painting is in honor of her.......I miss her very much. She passed away in 2017.
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
"Our Lady of the Shards" - Mosaic Shrines (2018 - 2019)
The Series is collectively called "Our Lady of the Shards" as they are meant to honor that which has been buried, lost or broken, and is now re-surfacing to the contemporary world to tell us the ancient stories that we need now. Working in a pottery studio, I saw many beautiful broken pottery shards lying about, and I began to think of artists sometimes being "mythic archeologists", uncovering and resurrecting the lost and forgotten lives and wisdom of the past, piecing it together to find the shapes and reveal the mysteries. Or it could be said that the Spirits of the past are rising from the broken shards, insistant on being heard and honored, because they are once again truly needed.
Shrine to the Ancient Midwives "Our Lady of the Forgotten Midwives" remembers the enduring love of Millenia of Ancestral Midwives, the women whose hands brought each generation into the world. |
The Memory Keeper II |
"The Memory Keeper" was inspired by a song called "Water from Another Time", which speaks eloquently of the wisdom and gifts of the elderly, and of previous times, needed to nourish each new generation.
Our Lady of the Desert Spring |
Hecate |
The Bone Goddess |
Old Masks |
The Memory Keeper I |
The Weaver |
Shrine for the Forgotten Midwives |
Our Lady of the Waters |
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Exhibit of the Masks of the Goddess - Closing the Project
In May I will be concluding the 20 year MASKS OF THE GODDESS PROJECT, which began as an Invocation to the Goddess at Reclaiming's 20th Annual Spiral Dance in San Francisco in 1999. I have been so privileged to collaborate with Priestesses, Playwrights, Dancers, Ritualists, Community Organizers, Photographers, Artists, Photographers, Choreographers, Writers, Singers, and Psychologists in sharing the stories and "Faces of the Goddess". So many from around the country participated in the Project - please know that your spirit and contribution will be there, in every mask and photograph.
The Opening will be May 5th, and I'll give a small slide presentation, and afterwards I'm delighted that there will several performances, including Evelie Delfino Sales Posch to sing her beautiful songs, and mask wearers Drissana and Vibra to invoke the Goddesses. Perhaps we'll see you there!
I have also just revised and added a great deal of new material to my book
"The Masks of the Goddess", which is available at Blurb.com.
You can turn pages in a "Preview" at this link:
http://www.blurb.com/b/
Thank you once again for sharing your creativity and love of the Goddess with so many, and especially, with me. May the Masks continue their work.
Lauren
www.masksofthegoddess.com