In a Washington Post last spring article, Blake Gopnik - What Is Feminist Art? - washingtonpost.com states that Feminist Art is "the most important artistic movement since World War II" because "what a world of art is made from or looks like is supposed to matter less than what it is about."

In this context, SHAKTIMA BRIEN's "Goddess Journey" series of 33 paintings is as relevant as Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, and fridakahlo.com's portraits of the soul, to reveal missing archetypes in modern psychology, art, history and religion.

As humanity is graduating into the global age, The Goddess Journey offers insights into the feminine unconscious.

The art book is coming out in 2008.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Jayne DeMente

818 760-0531, roadyin@aol.com
What: "The Goddess Journey" Art Opening

When: October 6-31, 2007

Opening Night: October 06, 7-10 p.m.

Where: Magdalene Cultural Arts Center

4822 Vineland Ave (at Lankershim)

North Hollywood, CA 91601
Admission: Free and open to the public

http://www.themagdalenecenter.com/
http://shaktimabrien.blogspot.com/ 

The Goddess Journey lifts the veil on a lost Feminine Spiritual Heritage.

Femininist Spiritual Art is alive at the Magdalene Cultural Arts Center in North Hollywood.

In the tradition of Judy Chicago (Through the Flower, The Dinner Party), Frida Kahlo's portraits of the soul, and last spring Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Project, WACK! Art and the Femininist Revolution at Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and Southern California Women's Caucus for Art's Multiple Vantage Points at LAMAG (Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery), The Goddess Journey, a series of 33 paintings, a legacy to women spiritual heritage, explores the Eternal Feminine. 

The Goddess Journey, a body-of-work of 33 paintings, 2 to 12 feet, created by artist SHAKTIMA BRIEN on a period of 20 years in Santa Monica, unravels missing and forgotten feminine archetypes in men and women's psyche today.

From Dormant Soul to Creatora, passing by Volcano Woman and Women Mysteries, The Goddess Journey offers insights on material, sexual, psychological and spiritual aspects of the feminine principle of life. 

Shaktima Brien is an artist, who is part of the cultural fusion that shapes new languages and paradigms. Her work was at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History for the Premiere of Signs of Time, a film on Marija Gimbutas (The Language of the Goddess) sponsored by UCLA Women's Studies, Women's Heritage Project and Bellili Productions. Some of her tableaux were sold at the Shirley MacLaine and Whoppie Goldberg Art Auction; some others were selected by Judy Freeman, Associate Curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, for the "Women in Contemporary Art" exhibition.

Shaktima will share The Goddess Journey process at the Magdalene Center on November 11, 10-noon, in the context of Twelve Sundays of Oracles Series hosted by the Women's Heritage Project, featuring rituals & messages from women of crossed cultures and traditions.