Sandra Gering to Host Release Party, Signing for John Simon's DRAWING YOUR OWN PATH

John Simon's Drawing Your Own Path: 33 Practices at the Crossroads of Art and Meditation will be celebrated at a release party and book signing on Thursday, November 10th from 5-7pm at Sandra Gering Inc (14 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065). Books will be available for purchase at the gallery.

Drawing Your Own Path is an account of how multi-media artist John Simon's daily drawing discipline became a meditation practice, and how that meditation illuminated his creative source. A practical guidebook full of Simon's own art, Drawing Your Own Pathoffers meditators an alternative path to 'just sitting' and offers artists a way to mindfully examine and deepen the source of their creative ideas. Readers are guided through thirty-three meditation and drawing exercises, exploring concentrated looking, mindful sketching, and improvisational awareness, all designed to help practitioners discover the vast creativity within themselves and in their daily lives. - Parallax Press

John F. Simon, Jr., widely recognized as an early pioneer in the use of computer-generated imagery in contemporary art, has turned his attention to the act of mark-making as a doorway into self-awareness and the essential touchstone of visual creativity. He leads us through a sequence of meditative drawing exercises, and shares insightful, touching anecdotes of his many years of experience as a practicing artist.-Peter Halley, Artist

The mysteries of the mind and universe are coupled with a very practical guide to drawing. It is an unlikely but wonderfully fruitful combination, a step-by-step approach to awareness and art.-Lawrence Rinder, Director, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Read about John Simon's daily meditation and drawing practice in Tricycle here, and listen to the podcast on Synchronicity here.