Eyewash
New York
143 North 7th St. Brooklyn
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Summer Reading
dal 2/6/2000 al 25/6/2000
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Segnalato da

Rose Selavy



 
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2/6/2000

Summer Reading

Eyewash, New York


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Summer Reading is a group exhibition of works of art containing text in a wide variety of media and styles. Featured artist are: Joe Amrhein, Bruce Pearson, David Kramer, Sante Scardillo, Norma Markley, Ward Shelley, Edward Monovich, Carol Warner, Ellie Murphy, Roxanne Wolanczyk.

JOE AMRHEIN silkscreens words onto (sometimes variously-colored) sheets of Plexiglas or glass, then carefully layers and otherwise arranges them to make works that are formally beautiful as well as provocative and poetic combinations of words.

DAVID KRAMER makes collages of his stream-of-consciousness poems and stories by typing them directly onto drawing paper with an old-fashioned typewriter. He then adds pictures cut out of magazines, his own drawings, postcards, etc. to create a mishmash of meaning that feels like a peek into his unconscious mind.

NORMA MARKLEY also types her Tourettes-like ramblings directly onto drawing paper, then adds "paint chips" (paint color samples), leaving on the color names, thus adding to and skewing the meaning of the typed-on parts. She also paints and draws on the paper, thus further enriching the text component as well as adding to the considerable purely-formal beauty of the works.

EDWARD MONOVICH cuts words out of newspapers, magazines and custom-makes his own rubber stamps that he then works into his insidiously cute, humorous paintings of animals to make social commentary, especially about economics and the financial world.

ELLIE MURPHY started with a brochure made to entice prospective students to Parsons School of Design and gave it a treatment and presentation that so benignly satirizes the intent, making it seem so fantastic and socially irrelevant, that it makes you think the authors might be trying to convince the readers to come along with them to another planet or some Oz-like place.

BRUCE PEARSON's psychedelic paintings are formed by seemingly ever-morphing shapes that are, when one squints and looks at them just right, also letters laconically spelling out philosophical phrases and maxims.

SANTE SCARDILLO scans ads from magazines and alters them, hi-jacking their intentional promotional goal by his subversive additions. The resulting images bubble over with satire and social critique.

WARD SHELLEY's contribution is a drawing that charts the ascendance and descendance in importance of lovers, friends and artists as they appear (in his memory) in various categories of his life.

CAROL WARNER weaves illustrations she finds in magazines, using strips of various widths, patterns and images to create a new form that bears little resemblance to the originals. She then scans and prints them. Sending the object back to the press, they come full-circle.

ROXANNE WOLANZCYK silkscreens words that express frustration and anger such as "It was embarrassing." onto paper to form delicate, lovely targets that she then shoots up with a 38 Special.

Exhibition: Summer Reading
Opening: SAT, JUN 3rd, 6 - 8 pm
Summer Hours: SAT, SUN only, 1-6 pm and by appointment
Location: at Eyewash, 143 North 7th St. Brooklyn (between Bedford Ave. and Berry St. 1/2 block from the Bedford Stop on the L Train).
Tel: (718) 387-2714.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact Larry Walczak or Annie Herron at (718) 387-2714

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Summer Reading
dal 2/6/2000 al 25/6/2000

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