Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:14 am

An exhibit by local artist Patricia Tenpenny will be on display Nov. 2 through Dec. 7 in the first floor rotunda in Murfreesboro City Hall, 111 W. Vine St. during normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except observed holidays.

The announcement was made by The City Hall Art Committee.

Tenpenny is also an MTSU professor.

Entitled “Sacred Geometry” Tenpenny explains it as her exploration into what many consider the blueprint of Creation, the genesis of all form, an ancient science that explores the patterns that create and unify all things. From the most minuscule particles to the myriad forms of the greater cosmos patterns and proportions are exemplified through repetition. This is viewed as the principle of unity and oneness and as the underlying architect of the universe.

“Viewing and contemplating sacred geometry can help us realize who we really are and abolish our false notion of separateness from nature and from each other” Tenpenny said.

“The ancients Greeks believed that the experience of Sacred Geometry was essential to the education of the soul, she added. “By contemplating these patterns you are contemplating the origin of all things big and small. By seeing unity and wholeness within Sacred Geometry we can discover the inherent proportion, balance and harmony that exist in all manifest reality, in any situation, and even the circumstances of our day-to-day.

“This principle of interconnectedness, inseparability and union can provide us with a continuous reminder of our relationship and connection to the Omnipresent, the Omnipotent, the Universal One,” she said.

A native of Murfreesboro, Tenpenny graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree and has a Master’s in Fine Arts from Louisiana State University.

In 1995 she briefly returned to the Murfreesboro area as a teacher MTSU and the Appalachian Center for Crafts. She then taught at Meridian Community College in Meridian, Miss. for the next few years before returning again in 2004 to be near her family. She has been an Assistant Professor of Art at MTSU, and currently owns her own studio/gallery, The Bohemian Sanctuary, located at 423B W. Lytle St.

Various examples of her work are on display there and can be seen by appointment. Tenpenny’s work can also be seen occasionally in various exhibitions at MTSU and in the surrounding area.

The artist’s current works consist primarily of a blending of painting and drawing in a combination of various mediums including acrylic paint and colored pencils. She says she strives to reunite the viewer with the idea of interconnectedness, wholeness, and unity within everything, through her own inspired interpretations of these complex geometrical designs.



For more information call Eric Snyder, Art Committee Chair at 542-6368.