POWER PRINT collaborative works by Ram Kumar Panday and Yin Peet On View at the Tremont Gallery Opened on January 11 is an exhibition presented by International Society at the Tremont Gallery featuring collaborative works entitled POWER PRINT by Ram Kumar Panday and Yin Peet. Tremont Gallery is located at 276 Tremont Street, Boston. Hours are 9:30am-5:00pm, Tuesday - Saturday. The show will continue through January 31.                                    Power Print uses symbols commonly find in traditional Hindu iconography to intensify our awareness of Human Life. As Panday points out: "…All symbols are time tested traditional art. All of them together present a `Yantra effect` which gives one a feeling of peace and pleasure and generates internal power to make prosperity in life." In this exhibition Peet collaborates with Panday by reinterpreting his wood-block prints with her understanding of Chinese Buddhist philosophy. She uses multiple media in the framing of the prints, materials such as fabric, stone, wax, and Chinese calligraphy. In addition to displaying religious symbols these wood-block prints encompass complex thoughts and meanings. They may enlighten and inspire the viewers to feel a special energy and power. Ram Kumar Panday, a Nepali, is a multi-faceted artist and scholar, a renaissance man. His accomplishment as an artist is shown through 14 group and solo exhibitions in Nepal, Japan and now the US. His achievements as a scholar can be seen through the professorship he holds at the Tribhuvan University in Nepal as well as the numerous books and articles he has published in the fields of Geography and Art History. He is a well-known humorist, cartoonist, folklorist, poet, writer (fiction & non-fiction) and columnist in Nepal. During his 1998 (six month) and 1999 (one month) residency in Japan as a research fellow and an artist, he created more than 120 wood-cut print of which many were collected by the Fukuoka Museum, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and Rokkate Art Museum. In the Fall of 2000 he was given a full-fellowship to come to the Vermont Studio Center to be the artist-in-residence. While there he created an impressive body of work collectively entitled "Power Print". These works have also been scheduled for exhibition at the Asian American Art Center in New York City in the summer of 2001. Panday got his M.Ed and MA from Trubhuvan University. Yin Peet, a sculptor, was born in Taiwan. Her work addresses multiple perspectives concerning comparative social norms between the East and West. She creates sculpture object as well as explores the process of the object making as a form of performance. The characteristics of her installations/performances are to stretch the use of media beyond the boundaries of conventional sculptural materials into media that include time, such sound, movement and the recitation of text. She has exhibited widely in United States, Croatia, England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Taiwan, which earned her many grants and awards. She has an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, and has taught at the College of the Holy Cross and School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Other links of interests Ceramic art of Jendezheng Sand T, The Mind of Space; Upper Story Multiplicity and Reiteration Spirit of the East Beijing Memory: Streets and Alleys, doors and gates Cross the Mongolian Prairie Vision and Aspiration Please support our program by Joining our membership. Attending the events (watch What's New) Making donations -- Send your tax deductible donation to International Society 276 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02116)