Brainard Carey is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Maria the Jewess and the Women of Alchemy by Ann McCoy
Time: Mar 17, 2021 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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This is the Third free lecture in an introduction to alchemy as an inner voyage of transformation, and a psychological and spiritual quest. There will be an emphasis in this lecture on how women artists portrayed the importance of the feminine in the Alchemical process. The Hellenistic Alchemist Maria the Jewess (Maria Prophetissa) was famous for her axiom: “one becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.” Women have featured prominently in the divine
art, and Texts like the Mutus Liber show the male and female alchemists working as a pair, kneeling by the furnace. Lenora Carrington in her painting The Chrysopeia of Mary the Jewess (1964) begins this discussion.
Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
She was awarded a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She lectured on art history, the history of projection, and mythology in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000. She studied alchemy with Jung’s main disciple C.A.Maier in Zurich for twenty eight years.
This is a free talk and there is no registration, just use this Zoom link to join the conversation March 17 at 8pm (Eastern Standard Time)
