Joe Amrhein
Bruce Pearson
David Kramer
Sante Scardillo
Norma Markley
Ward Shelley
Edward Monovich
Carol Warner
Ellie Murphy
Roxanne Wolanczyk
2/6/2000
Summer Reading
Eyewash, New York
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