ArtSpace/Lima will have a two-night showing of Phil Sugden’s installation, Pages from the Manual on Dismantling God, Friday, Feb. 21 and Saturday, Feb. 22, from 6 - 9 p.m., in its Ellen Nelson Gallery.

Phil Sugden is Assistant Professor of Art at Bluffton University. His work has been exhibited in more than 90 solo and 130 group shows internationally, including galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Washington, D.C., Melbourne, and Kathmandu. 

He studied painting in Paris under French painter, Arnaud D'Hauterives (winner, Grand Prix de Rome), at the New York School of Visual Arts and the Paris American Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris,

Pages from the Manual on Dismantling God is an installation featuring 21 pen and ink drawings, arranged in a circular form suspended from the gallery ceiling.  Each of the drawings documents a moment in the artist’s connection to the known universe. 

Sugden writes of the work: “Each page was an effort to explore and re-discover meaning in the imagery I have created over the years. Some are based on location drawings from travels to Nepal, Tibet, India, France, and other destinations.

"Based on literature and books that have influenced my artwork, the text includes the Dead Sea Scrolls, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Buddhist scriptures, physics formulas, musical notations, etc. The languages include Devanagari Sanskrit, Peshitta, Aramaic, Greek, Tibetan, Vulcan, binary code, and others.”

Following its showing at ArtSpace, the installation will be exhibited at Goshen College, Goshen, Ind.; at Edison Community College, Piqua; and at Ohio Northern University, Ada.

ArtSpace/Lima is a not-for-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the arts in northwest Ohio and to provide artists with a venue to present and sell their work.   ArtSpace/Lima is supported in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council. 

For further information about Pages from the Manual on Dismantling God, or for information regarding other ArtSpace/Lima programs, please call Bill Sullivan, Operations Manager, at ArtSpace/Lima 419-222-1721.