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Excerpts from curator Heng-Gil Han's catalog essay for Serene Beauty: Intersections Between Sublime and Zen:

Sublime: raised on high in thinking, being emotionally and spiritually uplifted, describing the disposition of thinking that experiences and reflects on itself

Zen: calm, meditative, of a sudden realization, self-realization and revelation, originally derived from Sanskrit dhyanna, from dhyati, "he thinks"

	Both Zen practices and the experience of the sublime emerge from human nature and ways of great thinking. They represent different ways the fundamental human desire for an uplifted life comes to expression. Their ultimate goal is to foster a life in a freeing balance with nature and the conditions of our existence. Liberally guided by these points, this exhibition features works of art that function as perceptual agents either prompting the experiential phenomenon of the Sublime, or fostering the calm emotional state of Zen. The notion of patience is resonant in Edie Winograde's photographs of Chinese landscapes. Untitled (Yangtze River fog, #1) is a picture of a muddy river in foggy air. The deep fog hides the horizon of the water from viewers' eyes, presenting the space as an ungraspable infinitum, of which not only the division, but also the extension is unlimited. In her other photographs of the Yangtze River, the slowly moving water and the giant mountains evoke the idea of patience and virtue in our mind.
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