A solo show by Phil Sugden, “Pages from the Manual on Dismantling God; Directions toward the Unfolding Present†goes on view in the Goshen College Art Gallery in Goshen, Indiana this June and remains on view through September 2014.
    The installation will feature pen and ink drawings, arranged in a circular form suspended from the ceiling. Each of the drawings documents a moment in the artist’s connection to the known universe. Sugden says, “Each page was an effort to explore and re-discover meaning in the imagery I have created over the years. Some are based on location drawings from travels to Nepal, Tibet, India, France, and other destinations. Based on literature and books that have influenced my artwork, the text includes the Dead Sea Scrolls, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Buddhist scriptures, physics formulas, musical notations, etc. The languages include Devanagari Sanskrit, Peshitta, Aramaic, Greek, Tibetan, Vulcan, binary code, and others.â€
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    As an Assistant Professor of Art at Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio, Sugden’s work has been exhibited in more than 90 solo and 130 group shows internationally, including galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Washington DC, Melbourne, and Kathmandu. He studied painting in Paris under French painter, Arnaud D’Hauterives (winner, Grand Prix de Rome), at the New York School of Visual Arts and the Paris American Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris.
    The show as previously at ArtSpace/Lima in Lima, Ohio and is currently on view at Owens College in Findlay, Ohio through March 26. It then moves this June to Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana; in September to Edison Community College in Piqua, Ohio; and at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio in January 2015.
MORE DETAILS and VISUALS on this exhibition: http://philipsugden.com. Â More from ago at this AAPJ archive: http://www.arttoartpalettejournal.com/2013/04/philip-sugden-portrait-of-the-professor