"Charon's Pantheon"
February 4 - 27, 2011
Opening Reception & Book Release: Friday, February 4th; 8-11 PM
Artist Reception, Music Demonstration & Book Signing: Saturday, February 5th; 7-11 PM
Lecture Series with Music Demonstration: Saturday, February 12th, 19th & 26th; 6-9 PM
Myron Dyal is a modern mystic, a classically trained musician, and a self-taught Southern California artist. He has spiritual visions connected to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy that are the catalysts for the vast oeuvre of his work that spans nearly three decades. His figurative and organic forms are derived from visions he experiences during epileptic seizures and from self-induced trances he encounters on the spiritual journey. Charon has been with Myron ever since his "second birth," as he terms it; a three-month coma at the age of four from which emerged a lifetime of visionary experiences. Charon has been his spiritual mother, father, friend and guide. He is the unifying factor in Myron's life and has been the primal factor in his healing process. Charon acts as a counterbalance to the dark forces, often times restraining them to allow Dyal's consciousness to recover from their ravages. Flooded with images, Myron renders them in acrylic, graphite, watercolor, and ultimately papier-mache: in large part because the immediacy accommodates his urgency to see objects in three-dimensional form. While developing the concepts for this show, composer and friend Dr. Jennifer Logan developed an aural counterpart for Myron's creations. Each composition is an harmonic and transcendental representative of each goddess within the pantheon. There is a magic restored in these drawings, in these statues, and in these soundscapes that is otherwise absent from the world. The tangible weight of the materials and the gradual minimalism of the compositions are diametrically opposed to the relative gravity of the pieces combined.
An extended biography can be accessed at www.myrondyal.com
The catalog for the exhibition Charon's Pantheon is pubished by Last Gasp Books for La Luz de Jesus Press.
Soft-cover, 66 color pages, with 69 minute audio CD included. $25.00.
Contact the Gallery Director for availability and purchase info: (323) 666-7667
