Thu, Jul 30
|ArtSpace
The Sun, My Heart Exhibit: Tea Meditation & Meet the Artist
Free and open to the public!
Time & Location
Jul 30, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
ArtSpace, 99 Monmouth St, Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA
About
Join us for a special event for The Sun, My Heart, featuring a tea meditation and light refreshments!
On View: June 18 - July 30
Closing Reception: July 30th, 5:30 - 7:00 – Free and open to the public!
Summer Deaver’s collection explores the unity of opposites through contemplative mark-making, oil painting and hand-burnished printmaking. Inspired by writings in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s The Sun My Heart, the series reflects the idea that light and darkness do not cancel each other out, but merge into wholeness.
Created with gouache and hand-burnished prints, the print work emphasizes presence and mindfulness—balancing immediacy with the meditative act of pressing hand-carved, often Sanskrit or Tibetan-inspired imagery into paper. Visual elements draw from the artist’s practice of watching ocean sunrises: triangular forms and soft gradients emerge from textured darkness, like dawn breaking over the shore.
Rooted in themes of interconnection and transformation, “The Sun, My Heart” invites viewers to witness how light and shadow, stillness and movement, self and other are never truly separate.