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The repetitive, obsessive, compulsive involvement of visual artists with words will be the theme of Safe-T-Galleryís summer exhibition ìOnomatomania Onomatomania.î Written words have had an intimate relationship with the visual arts from their very inception, but as the modern visual environment has become increasingly saturated with words, their multiple meanings, as symbols, objects, and ideas have become an area of interest to increasing numbers of visual artists. ìOnomatomania Onomatomaniaî presents works by 8 contemporary artists who use or include words as principal components of their art. In alphabetical order, the artists in ìOnomatomania Onomatomania follow: |
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Burst387, is a New York based street artist has produced a compilation piece made up of photographs of every four-letter word he or she found on Broadway (Manhattan) over a three week span in 2007 -- 1057 different words in all -- presented in alphabetical order, of course. |
Victoria
Chang will show
a large installation piece based on the nu shu ‘female writing’ of
the Yao women of Hunan province. Ms Chang uses the spidery ancient
characters to blur the distinctions between eastern aesthetics and
contemporary western art traditions. |
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Multi-disciplinary artist Üla
Einstein'sinstallation
and photography project explores the early imprint of words and
phrases on our development and thoughts. Using ephemeral media
(in this case tattooed text on broken eggshells, nested in
re-employed audio tapes)
she creates works that place strong evocative words within a
complex, fragile framework of natural and man-made objects.
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Bob Heman is a poet and publisher whose involvement with words extends to the intimate word collages presented here.
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Maureen
Kelleherís works envelope the words, phrases and stories, many true, that she has collected and experienced. Tales of the South, life in prison, yearnings and dreams, the words become so intense they seem to burst out of their wood and polyurethane casements.
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R. Wayne Parsons presents a coolly intellectual, if slightly cracked, take on the understanding of words in a series of photographs of words on ladders. |
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Photographer Lori
Rogers taps into an unusual source
of visual imagery, the records of a now-defunct soft-porn production
company, to produce a revelatory photo series ëTypography for Pornography.í |
Paul Shore is
an artist who has a mild form of that supremely onomatomaniacal
condition, Tourette syndrome. The work we will present is from ìBlood
Drawingsî a
series of intricate forms, seemingly biological, drawn with continuous
lines of repeated words and phrases. |
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