Mandala Art Jennifer Berringer 2/09/2006

The mandala form is an ancient one, arising in many forms the reveal the spiritual constructs of each community. Common throughout the making of mandala is the culture’s reverence for the interdependence of the physical, spiritual, natural relationships of the environment.

I began this series as an exercise in combining disparate images as content in a formal symmetry. I had worked with mandala forms before, but I had forgotten the powerful practice of mandala. You cannot make mandala art and not be changed by the practice.

I have combined conflicting subject matter related to nature and man, the macro-cosmos and the micro-cosmos. The images are meant to rotate and bring harmony, healing communion in the way of supplication.

I have been a studio artist for many years, exhibiting work in Boston, Washington, DC, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco. I am currently teaching design and painting at Prince George’s Community College, Largo Maryland and pursuing a Maters Degree in interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College, Plainfield VT. MY work is included in many private and public collections, including Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of American Art, Washington, DC. I have two grown sons, two bad cats and live in Clinton Maryland.