Stone, Steel, and Paper by John Diamond, M.D.

See the show: May 23-June 15

About the Artist: During his lifetime, Dr. John Diamond created a voluminous body of artistic, musical, literary, annd scholarly works in numerous genres and categories, an oeuvre likely unparalleled in history. He used the term Live Energy to broadly characterize his creative works, since his therapeutic intent was for each work to raise the Life Energy of its audience. The concept of Life Energy has been around for thousands of years and has been given many different names throughout history - it is basically the innate healing power of the body, that which causes us to heal - to love.

Among the many thousands of original paintings, which he created and saved form the middle of his life until he passed at age eighty-six, a small percentage of these were rendered on 12" x 12" slate (or porcelain) tiles and another small percentage were rendered on large industrial steel shelving panels.

From these paintings, he took a series of closeup photographs with one of his manny cameras, each focusing on a small visual subset of an individual work. These images, brilliantly colored and highly abstract, are again but a minute fraction of the archive developed from a lifetime of photographic creativity, a collection numbering over a million images.

Steel, Stone and Paper brings these three elements of Dr. Diamond's work together for the first time in a public exhibition. Paintings on stone and steel highlighted by closeup photographs printed on glossy paper.

Come and be inspired by this beautiful, fascinating and highly original synthesis of abstract imagery and expressionistic technique.