6/3: Katherine Brannock – Chrysopoeia at La Luz de Jesus

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6/3: Katherine Brannock Chrysopoeia

showing with Caitlin McCormack, *Gea, and Genie Mélisande
June 3 – 26, 2016
Artist reception: Friday, June 3rd; 8-11PM

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Wacko / Soap Plant
4633 Hollywood Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com

Cyclical patterns in nature maintain a captivating allure for the artist Katherine Brannock. Everything from water bodies aligning with the lunar cycle, to seasons predictably sculpting our environmental landscape, has captured her unwavering fascination and curiosity. However, this innate attraction to quantifiable changes in the physical world, finds an amusing digression when aligned with Katherine’s transcendent, philosophical roots stemming from childhood.

In an effort to validate the physical feelings rooted in our cycles of emotional evolution, Katherine has elected to explore the concept of Chrysopoeia in order to metaphorically articulate her observance of this, oftentimes, neglected inner experience.

Chrysopoeia was originally an Alchemical process defined as the act of transmuting a base metal into gold; but according to a more philosophical approach, Chrysopoeia could be denoted as the act of transforming the base qualities of our psychological nature into more enlightened functions. By adopting this Alchemical credo, Katherine intends to explore the birth and death of the Ego as one might examine the rise and fall of the tide.

Born and raised San Diego, California, Katherine attended Catholic School from Kindergarten on up to her graduating year of High School. This dogmatic, parish setting imbedded the language of old world religion within her psyche, while sparking an attraction to alternative forms of spiritual mysticism. The further Katherine explored the conceptual depths of otherworldly reality, the stronger her obsession grew to comprehend the degree to which these seemingly intangible influences shaped our psychological perceptions of the Ego. www.katherinebrannock.com