PAUL LAFFOLEY – The Luminous Mind

Kent Fine Art is pleased to present PAUL LAFFOLEY – The Luminous Mind.

While The Essential Paul Laffoley (2016 University of Chicago Press) included 91 works, here we will focus on seven highly significant paintings which establish the foundation of an extraordinarily sophisticated oeuvre. Through a trans-disciplinary fusion of cosmological systems, consciousness, dimensionality and time travel, science fiction to science fact, they embrace not only a unique visual language but also voluminous theoretical and intellectual utopian projections. Beginning with his speculative The City can change your life (1962), to The Kali-Yuga: The End of the Universe at 424826 A.D. (1965) his formal and organizational painterly methodology begin to appear. With The Visionary Point (1970) and Alchemy: The Telenomic Process of the Universe (1973), they punctuate the vibrancy of his Boston Visionary Cell. “our spiritual mentor is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), who saw humanity, as well as the matter-energy that constitutes the universe, as being in a constant and purposeful process of cosmic evolution that was moving in the direction of increasing complexity and perfected spirituality.” PL (1971)