As a continuation of Park West Gallery's summer initiative, Park West CARES donated close to 1000 items of clothing to Vista Maria on Friday, August 20th. Throughout the summer months of July and August, Park West CARES has already donated clothing to a number of non-profit organizations and plans to extend the summer initiative into the fall. Upcoming donations include Covenant House, Counterpoint Crisis Shelter and Genesis One Transitional Youth Center.
About Vista Maria Vista Maria's mission is to heal Michigan's victimized girls and women with best-practice treatment programs designed to meet their unique needs while serving other vulnerable children and families within Southeast Michigan. Vista Maria's success is based on the philosophy of Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, who founded the Sisters of the Good Shepherd - the community of women who founded Vista Maria. Her compassion, empathy, and interest in helping marginalized women and children evolved out of her own experience as a troubled adolescent. Therapy at Vista Maria is designed around each girl's individual experiences and needs. This encompasses a variety of activities that address the physical, spiritual, intellectual, and recreational well being of the girls.
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| Csaba Markus “Veritas” (2006) | Park West Gallery Collection |
Following is an excerpt from an original article written by Park West Gallery Director, Morris Shapiro:
In the contemporary world of art a battle is currently raging. As the 20th Century clicked over to the 21st, it provided a convenient demarcation point for this struggle, but it has really been ongoing for at least 90 years. The conflict is about the search by artists of our time for the fundamentals of aesthetics which have long ago been “thrown under the bus.” The word, “aesthetic” is derived from the Greek word, “aesthesis,” which means “perception with feeling,” and in so simple a joining of two phenomena, the entire history of western art criticism has rested. Perception of course deals with the sensorial response to art: what we perceive and experience through our limited senses as we take in what exists before us for contemplation. Feeling, results in what we take from that contemplation and from whatever “information” our senses provide. That is, how the information affects the perspective we bring to the contemplation of an artwork. That perspective is made up of our emotions, our experiences, our education, our dispositions, our passions, our prejudices and the myriad other qualities that define who we are each individually. All through the storied evolution of aesthetic philosophy two halves have formed the whole of the aesthetic experience. They are the “yin and yang” of art and their measure must each be taken to develop a true analysis of any work of art in any medium. “Form” is the physical body, the manifestation in concrete reality of the work of art before us. In the visual arts (for which we will confine our discussion here) form may include the medium employed, the size or format of the work, the use of line, color, texture, contrast, the composition of the work, or any number of other “physical’ attributes. “Content,” on the other hand, is what the work of art is communicating to us as we experience it during contemplation. All art has something to communicate, even if the communication is about the absence of communication...
Also by Morris Shapiro:
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David Willardson “J’Adore” (2006), from the Park West Gallery Collection.
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With his unique combination of pop art and action painting, David Willardson has illustrated everything from Disney characters to Hollywood movie posters. Nicknamed "Pep Art," Willardson's painting style was an immediate hit with Disney executives and continues to please art collectors around the world. Whether a Disney fan or a Jackson Pollock aficionado, you can't help but be moved by the infusion of color, personality and energy that permeates the artwork of David Willardson.
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