"Between Seeing and Knowing"
Between Seeing and Knowing by Anna Boothe 81 SC and Nancy Cohen is on view at the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah, WI from October 8, 2022–February 5, 2023.
Comprised of hundreds of glass objects, Between Seeing and Knowing is a collaborative large-scale site-specific installation by artists Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen that was created in 2012 during a Collaborative Residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. It is the result of the artists' long-standing interest and in-depth study of Tibetan Buddhist thangka paintings and the integration of their otherwise very separate studio practices. Thangkas are ordered cosmological paintings, often scrolls, created for the purpose of meditation and composed of numerous visual elements. This installation reinterprets the symbolism in the paintings to create new work that reflects their organizational structure and palette, as well as the sense of expansiveness and lack of hard resolution characteristic of Buddhist ideology.
