Experience the Tibetan Chö healing ceremony at the opening of Rosy Keyser’s show in LA!

No registration necessary, please bring a mat to lie on and arrive a few minutes early to get comfortable. If you’d like to offer a donation, please see the Bhutan Fundraiser.

This in-person only event is listed in Pacific Standard Time.

4-5:30pm PST

Parrasch Heijnen Gallery

1326 S Boyle Ave, Los Angeles

ultraUMWELT

The specific way in which organisms of a particular species perceive and experience the world, shaped by the capabilities of their sensory organs and perceptual systems.

Visceral, intuitive, loosening our grip on edges...

Join us for a special experience as Rosy Keyser's works spark dissolution of limited, individual perception.

The Heat Synth was an invention born of a need and a search- a studio process that demanded more specific conditions that would get closer to reenacting the immediacy of nature. Canvas is fed under a guide, across a hot steel surface, and then again under an exit guide. I can work into a ‘live’ surface while the wax ground is fluid and open. Sometimes there is an underpainting whose edges are asked to play (recalibrate) with the new, more fluid forms and gestures. This process happens in a specific time frame, before the surface cools and settles, and allows actions to play out in the heat of the moment. These actions may be, but not limited to, painted marks, printed forms, dragged zones, and removals. There is an ‘all-at-onceness’, an embrace of chance image-making, and a fostering of conditions that are unpredictably beautiful and impossible to fully control. The intentions that I bring to the process are very much embodied as there is no time to overthink. This process harnesses a learned capacity to move through chaos with buoyancy, provisionally, a skill acquired in childhood amidst circumstances of loss and uncertainty. Additionally, the materials (oils, wax, resins) respond with their own wills. And this ‘battle of lovers’ (1. James Baldwin) plays out on a number of different surfaces or fields that also have their own natures. The canvas is rendered more transparent, more responsive, more synthesized.

The Chö ceremony, with its goal of ‘cutting’ that which is hindering our achievement of liberation is very much related to the thesis of ultraUMWELT. In the spirit of establishing an expanded Umwelt, we elect to share our edges, and meet in a sort of ‘sensory commons’. The Chö, through an array of visualizations, song, music, and prayer, helps compel an understanding of indivisibility of self and others. It encourages a letting go vis à vis an offering of the body and the spirit. These paintings reveal shared fields of energy, diffuse edges, and forms that come and go through reversals, reoccurrences, temporal conditions, and synchronicities. -Rosy Keyser