{"id":872,"date":"2015-09-06T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T18:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2015-09-06T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T20:21:34","slug":"to-stop-the-mind-from-wandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"To Stop the Mind from Wandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Miriam-Hernandez-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-873\" src=\"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Miriam-Hernandez-1-298x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Miriam Hernandez 1\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Miriam-Hernandez-1-298x300.jpeg 298w, https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Miriam-Hernandez-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Miriam-Hernandez-1-66x66.jpeg 66w, https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Miriam-Hernandez-1.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>Saturday, September 19th<\/h3>\n<p>the public is invited to the opening of \u201cTo Stop the Mind from Wandering\u201d<\/p>\n<p>an art exhibition curated by Miriam Hern\u00e1ndez, in the Catskill Park Room at Morgan Outdoors.<\/p>\n<h3>Opening reception: 4 to 6 pm with many of the artists present.<\/h3>\n<p>Participating artists include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Siroc, Candy Spilner, Gail Tuchman, Kristin Gronbeck, Magaly Perez, Marjorie Morrow, <\/strong>and<strong> Miriam Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exhibition runs <strong>through Sunday, October 25<\/strong>, 2015 and all of the artwork is for Sale!<\/p>\n<p>According to the curator: \u201cThe works comprising this exhibition have been selected for their restraint and focus to suggest, or perhaps even induce, a state of meditation. The viewer is invited to quietly contemplate their seemingly uncomplicated combinations of form, design and color.<\/p>\n<p>The works may or may not represent the entire oeuvres of these artists, but have been chosen for their aesthetic simplicity. Almost all the artists refer to the natural world as the impetus for their work, but without making the work representational.<\/p>\n<p>These are visual attempts to quiet the mind from making random associations and to gently coax the eye\/mind connection into watchful stillness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo: painting by Miriam Hernandez<\/p>\n<p>There is a concurrent <strong>Opening Reception at <a href=\"http:\/\/catskillartsociety.org\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAS Arts Center<\/a><\/strong> next door for <strong><em>Hand-Me-Downs<\/em><\/strong>, an exhibition of artwork by Kathryn Kosto, Frank Mullaney, and Jake Seo.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Talk at 3pm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, September 19th the public is invited to the opening of \u201cTo Stop the Mind from Wandering\u201d an art exhibition curated by Miriam Hern\u00e1ndez, in the Catskill Park Room at Morgan Outdoors. Opening reception: 4 to 6 pm with many of the artists present. Participating artists include: Alex Siroc, Candy Spilner, Gail Tuchman, Kristin Gronbeck, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}