The Gospel According to Jeffrey Vallance at The Andy Warhol Museum

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"Juliet’s Balcony, Verona" (2006) buy Jeffrey Vallance,
courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

PENNSYLVANIA - The Andy Warhol Museum presents The Word of God: Jeffrey Vallance, an exploration of Christianity through February 5, 2012. Vallance is a California artist who creates objects, installations, performance and curatorial works. Vallance’s exhibition of  relics and religious artistry includes The Vallance Bible, a series of writings based upon Vallance’s personal experiences, spiritual upbringing, studies and reading.

This book includes a preface, a foreword, a gospel original - The Gospel According to Jeffrey - and a series of reproductions of works in connection with religion, the Reformation and John Calvin. This illustrated bible, published the year of celebration of 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin (Jubilee), will be co-published and distributed by Co-published by Grand Central Press and Centre d’édition contemporaine. The exhibition also contains a selection of his reliquary objects, and is the concluding exhibition in the 5-part Word of God Series.