“Global City Babel” on view at Cairn University

Works by artist Grace Carol Bomer will be on display in an exhibit titled “Global City Babel” in Cairn University’s Connie A. Eastburn Gallery, 200 Manor Ave., Langhorne.
Community members are invited to the gallery to appreciate her work on view through Dec. 10. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m.
Bomer’s exhibition is informed by the biblical account of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11: “I find this narrative particularly relevant to our culture and the postmodern belief that language is power and necessary to create one’s own truth,” she explains. “The biblical Tower of Babel account points to the God who created language . . . [The] Living Word redeems our babble and our towers of babel.”
Bomer is a Canadian-American abstract expressionist painter who maintains a studio in the mountains of North Carolina. She has studied art at UNC Asheville and abroad in Italy and Amsterdam.

Her English degree and six years as a teacher influence and inform her work as she scrawls poetic script and introduces motifs and metaphors into her visual storytelling to suggest universal themes of suffering, pilgrimage, and love. Her aesthetic language flows out of this dual love for paint and the human story.
She describes her work as being concerned with “the human condition surprised by the grace of God.” The physicality of oil paint mixed with cold wax medium, often layered on gold leaf, is the process that allows her to create abstract paintings that deal with the transcendence of an eternally relevant story.
All paintings in the gallery will be available for purchase. For group tour information, contact Matt Stemler, gallery curator, at mstemler@cairn.edu.

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