The Mount Angel Abbey is hosting a culmination of tradition and contemporary in its latest art installation next month.
“AVE: Sacred Images of Mary” will show off original egg tempera paintings — a technique using egg yolk in the pigments — crafted by artists trained in the Byzantine tradition.
“With its focus on Mary, the most painted woman in history, ‘AVE invites’ viewers to experience the theological and aesthetic richness of iconography through a modern lens,” the Abbey said in a release. “The exhibition explores how sacred images can serve as both theological texts and works of transcendent beauty. Each icon is rendered using hand-ground pigments, natural gesso, and gold leaf on wood panels—methods virtually unchanged since antiquity.”…