Adi Da Samraj: Fifty-Two Views from the Quandra Loka Suite

Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Adi Da Samraj:  Fifty-Two Views from the Quandra Loka Suite.  The exhibition opens with a reception from 6 to 9 PM, April 12 and continues through May 10, 2003.

In Adi Da Samraj’s new suite of photographic images, the face of an unknown yet eternal “she” floats in an ethos of water and air. Light seems to tremble around and through her as she sleeps, stares, dreams or, perhaps, leaves the earth. Patterns of movement announce themselves in the play of bright and dark interwoven throughout this abstractly constructed landscape. Yet the spontaneous warmth of flesh informs every frame. Thus the viewer is continually awakened to the possibility of reverie inside an image designed to articulate utter ecstasy.

To amplify this visual concept, the artist frequently groups multiple images in configurations of extremely large proportions. (The Quandra Loka # 131, triptych measures 7.5 x 15 feet) Then to add a further degree of visual complexity, all images are printed with pigmented inks on canvas. Also, large digital plasma screens are used to reveal rhythmically varied sequences of imagery culled from the 4000 plus images in the suite. Yet despite this “hi- tech” production, the artist’s multiple-exposed images are made without the assistance of digital or darkroom trickery. Thus, the photographer retains the sovereign epiphany of his point of view while harnessing cutting edge photo technology to confound ours.

The artist’s work is included in numerous private collections throughout the world.  This exhibition marks Adi Da Samraj’s first solo show with Louis Stern Fine Arts.