Synopsis
“It takes a psychotherapist’s heart coupled with an artist’s eye to create such hauntingly perfect vignettes of modern life…Remarkably deep, disarmingly witty.” This is how one critic describes Alice at the Rabbithole Café. A surprisingly wide range of emotions unfolds at these café tables where the generations intersect: Babyboomer anxiety, Gen X obsession, Millennial longing. “Vinnie,” says a feisty Boomer, “look up from the goddamned phone or I’ll give you something tweet about!” Lone readers, cozy schmoozers, sharp operators, tender families—all come to life. The eatme cakes, so full of revelation for Alice and the Baby Boomers, may have passed into other hands, but with or without them the world grows “curiouser and curiouser.” Dr. Schavrien is a psychotherapist with 15 awards for her work in the arts; she was a long-time student of the late Harold Rosenberg, art critic for The New Yorker.
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About the Author
Schavrien's art was featured in a cover article for On The Issues, an international journal; she also received a nomination for Oakland (CA) Artist of the Year, along with 15 awards in the arts. "When I paint portraits I like to imagine that my decades giving psychotherapy join forces with the years in the studio. The faces must speak. At an exhibit, the greatest compliment I received was this: 'You remind me that I have a soul.'"
She studied and practiced Dzogchen, a kind of Tibetan Zen, with the Ven. Sogyal Rinpoche, called the laughing lama. This brand of earthy mysticism helped her heal mid-life when, in a mugging, she was shot in the face. The need to heal also catalyzed a journey around the world. Human face and gesture, in all its variety, impels her art, whether the art issues in her grandscale work or in the good-natured miniatures and layered portraits featured in Alice at the Rabbithole Café.
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ISBN 10: 1502472228
ISBN 13: 9781502472229
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