Artist Reception
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This is the opening reception for the exhibition "Imagination and Promise: The Theological Aesthetics of Hope" by Jaden Dejesus Blango, a Duke Divinity School student. Selected as this year's C. Eric Lincoln Fellow in Theology and Arts, Blango is presenting his mixed-media collage and figure drawings at Duke Chapel from January 16 to February 28.
Free admission.
The exhibition presents pencil drawings of people on cut paper layered on backgrounds textured by water marbling, gold ink, ashes, and magazine clippings. In each of the pieces, Blango said the Christian theology of God as a Trinity provides a framework: the abstract background represents God the Father, the figure in the foreground represents God the Son, and the viewer seeing the relationship between the two plays the role of the Holy Spirit.
