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Press Release Checklist WORDPLAY Curated by Tamar Cohen June 17-August 19, 2005 July-August: Monday-Friday 11 to 6 p.m. The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our summer group exhibition WORDPLAY. The curator, Tamar Cohen, has assembled a collection of recent work created by twenty three well known and emerging artists. This group of work, executed in a range of mediums and materials, celebrates the diversity of letter forms, words and text as a visual expression in contemporary art. The playful use of words and typography in art, first introduced in the early cubist collages of Picasso and Braque, has became a visual staple in the vocabulary used by artists since that time. One has only to look at work ranging from the Futurists, Constructivists and Marcel Duchamp to Bruce Nauman, Jenny Holtzer and Jean-Michel Basquiat to appreciate the variety, richness and wealth of visual opportunities that text can provide. There are myriad sources of typographic and textual inspiration represented by the artists in WORDPLAY. There are found moments as seen in the photographs of Jeff Brouws and Orit Raff, as well as quotes and expressions used by Maira Kalman in her text and image embroideries, Shannon Ebner in her photograph, Joe Amrhein in his glass sign painting, Bill Rowe in his neon sculpture, Steve Powers in his aluminum supergraphic signs and Beth Campbell in her drawing. Kate Shepherd, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Abelardo Morell and Meena Park focus on the formal purity of the letter form in a range of mediums from painting and photography to collage. Literary texts form the basis of both Nicholas Knight's diagramed sentences and Steven Roden's witty pencil drawings. Mel Bochner cleverly uses word synonyms in his monoprint and Vik Muniz employs the letters of his name to create his self portrait. Tao Rey uses his own graffiti style handwriting on a sculptural street sign. Also included are the colored pencil drawings of Edward Fella, well known in the world of graphic design. Other artists included are Matthew Brannon, Graham Gillmore, Priscilla Monge, Larry Mullins and Jack Pierson. WORDPLAY JUNE 17 - AUGUST 19, 2005 Jack Pierson ME, 2000 c-print 40 x 30 inches edition 1/10 Jack Pierson ACTRESS, 2000 c-print 30 x 40 inches edition 1/10 Steve Powers Check Your Baggage, 2003 enamel on aluminum 31 x 22 inches Steve Powers I Got People To Do, I Got Things to See, 2003 enamel on aluminum 2 pieces at 15 x 14 inches MAIN GALLERY (from right to left) EAST WALL Pricilla Monge No Debo Olvidar, Serie Pizarras, 2005 c-print face mounted to non-glare UV Plexiglas backed to aluminum 23.5 x 31 inches Edward Fella Gist for This One Mill, 2005 color pencil on paper 11 x 8.5 inches Edward Fella Garb Belled and Rung Clean Out, 2005 color pencil on paper 11 x 8.5 inches Steve Powers Daily Operation, 2004 enamel on aluminum 44 x 31 inches Bill Rowe Just Wait, 2005 neon, plexiglass 11 x 24 x 4 inches NORTH WALL Orit Raff Desk #3, 1998 c-print mounted on alumnium 20 x 24 inch ap2/2 from an edition of 8 Orit Raff Desk #4, 1998 c-print mounted on aluminum 20 x 24 inch edition 6/8 Abelardo Morell Water Alphabet, 1998 gelatin silver print 20 x 24 inches edition 23/30 Vik Muniz Vik, 2003 lithograph/screenprint 50.25 x 20.25 inches edition 5/50 Steve Roden p.227 ("Oh you who speak and do not speak you of all things aware and in all things keeping silent"), 2004 pencil on paper 12 x 12 inches Steve Roden p. 213(“Too many rocks halted too many trees tied drunk on gravitation are still immobilized in their orientation towards the sea like cattle being milked”), 2004 pencil on paper 12 x 12 inches Matthew Brannon Receipt 4, 2002 silkscreen on paper 25 x 18 inches edition of 10 Matthew Brannon Receipt 5, 2002 silkscreen on paper 25 x 18 inches edition of 10 Maira Kalman Sieze the Day, 2005 embroidery on cotton 13.5 x 11.5 inches Maira Kalman Good Things Come to Those Who Wait, 2005 embroidery on cotton 13.5 x 11.5 inches Beth Campbell I Give Up, 2001 watercolor on paper 15 x 20 inches Beth Campbell When the Mascara Runs Out, 2001 watercolor on paper 22 x 30 inches MeeNa Park X, 2004 mixed media 7.68 x 10.63 inches MeeNa Park Mine, 2000 mixed media 7.68 x 10.63 inches MeeNa Park AaBbb, 1999 mixed media 7.68 x 10.63 inches MeeNa Park WHY, 2004 mixed media 7.68 x 10.63 inches MeeNa Park G, 2004 mixed media 7.68 x 10.63 inches MeeNa Park Landscape, 2005 mixed media 7.68 x 10.63 inches Elaine Lustig Cohen Letter Meter, 2005 giclée print, acrylic 30 x 22 inches WEST WALL Joe Amrhein WMD, 2005 enamel, gold leaf, and mylar 14 x 70 inches Mel Bochner Indifference, 2004 monoprint with engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper 17 x 23 inches Shannon Ebner The Day-Sob-Dies, 2005 c-Print mounted to sintra, wood frame, UV plexiglas 30 x 45 inches edition of 4 Larry Mullins Hey Boy, 2005 oil, acrylic, oil on Arches paper 32 x 28.5 inches SOUTH WALL Kate Shephard New, Ewen, Blue E, Green, 2005 enamel on panel 19 x 14 inches Tao Rey Untitled (onwords 13), 2004 ink and enamel on water color paper 15 x 86 x 16 inches Nicholas Knight Theories (Proust), 2003 ink, pencil, and collage paper 13.5 x 10.5 inches Nicholas Knight Everything (Corot), 2003 ink, pencil, and collage paper 17.5 x 14.5 inches Jeff Brouws One Squeeze Proves, 1987 archival pigment print 18 x 18 inches Jeff Brouws Terrible, Banning, California, 1991 archival pigment print 18 x 18 inches Graham Gillmore Never I, 2003 22 x 30 inches ink on paper Elaine Lustig Cohen Letterspree, 2004 collage, giclée print, acrylic 30 x 22 inches top For additional information contact the gallery back |
  Jack Pierson   Steve Powers  Pricilla Monge 
Edward Fella  Edward Fella  Steve Powers  Bill Rowe   Orit Raff Abelardo
Morell  Vik Muniz   Matthew Brannon   Maira Kalman   Beth Campbell       MeeNa Park  Elaine Lustig Cohen  Joe Amrhein  Mel Bochner  Shannon Ebner  Larry Mullins  Kate Shepherd  Tao Ray   Nicholas Knight   Jeff Brouws  Graham Gillmore  Elaine Lustig Cohen |