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Bernice Lee Bing’S Art And Spiritual Practice, Lin Ma Jan 2021

Bernice Lee Bing’S Art And Spiritual Practice, Lin Ma

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Living and working in northern California between the late 1950s and 1990s, abstract painter Bernice Lee Bing practiced Zen, Nichiren, and Nyingma Buddhism. This thesis studies what the visual and conceptual impact of these spiritual practices had on her abstract and visionary paintings.