![]() Exhibitions An Enduring Vision: 17th to 20th Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection Spirit of Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy from the Later Period selected from American Collections Zen Mind, Zen Brush Zen Mind/Zen Brush:Japanese Ink Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection Zenga and Nanga: Paintings by Japanese Monks and Scholars Zenga: Brushstrokes of Enlightenment Zenga: The Return from America. ZENGA: THE RETURN FROM AMERICA, Asano Laboratories, 2000. ZENGA: BRUSHSTROKES OF ENLIGHTENMENT, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1990. The tools and mechanics of drawing the ens are the same as those used in traditional Japanese calligraphy: One uses an ink brush to apply ink to washi (a thin Japanese paper). ZENGA AND NANGA: PAINTINGS BY JAPANESE MONKS AND SCHOLARS, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1976. Drawing ens is a disciplined-creative practice of Japanese ink painting, sumi-e. ![]() ZEN PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY, 17TH-20TH CENTURIES, Asian Art Museum, 2001. ZEN MIND/ZEN BRUSH: JAPANESE INK PAINTINGS FROM THE GITTER-YELEN COLLECTION, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2008. ZEN MIND, ZEN BRUSH, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006. ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND CALENDAR 2006, Amber Lotus, 2006. ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND CALENDAR 2004, Amber Lotus, 2004. ![]() THE ZEN OF CREATIVITY: CULTIVATING YOUR ARTISTIC LIFE, Ballantine Books, 2004. ENSO: ZEN CIRCLES OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Weatherhill, 2007. The enso is a manifestation of the artist at the moment of creation and the acceptance of our innermost self. AN ENDURING VISION: JAPANESE PAINTINGS FROM THE GITTER YELEN COLLECTION, New Orleans Museum of Art with University of Washington Press, 2002. While at first glance, the enso symbol appears no more than a misshapen circle, it symbolizes many things: the beauty in imperfection, the art of letting go of expectations, the circle of life, and connection. Publications “17TH-20TH CENTURY JAPANESE PAINTINGS FROM THE GITTER-YELEN COLLECTION”, in Arts of Asia, Sep-02.
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