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
http://shaktimabrien.blogspot.com/
http://www.themagdalenecenter.com/
Admission: Free and open to the public

"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.
The exhibition opens on October 6 at the Magdalene Cultural Arts Center in the NoHo Arts District at 7 p.m..
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 Whoopi 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.