nagramation
An-a-gra-mat-ion[an-uh-gruh-mey-shuhn], n. 1. An exhibition of paintings depicting roughhewn letters of the Alphabet, in an organic, seemingly naturally occurring font, composed from forest floor detritus. 2. Letters configured from tulip tree twigs, gathered along a hiking trail, and then graphically rendered onto the canvas. 3. Finding hidden and mystical meaning in letters by forming words, syllables, nonsense, fragments, hints of asemic writing, scat syllables, coded acronyms and hipster slang.
Red Caboose Gallery is teaming up with The Next Picasso Gallery for a dual gallery opening on June 21st, from 6-8 pm. featuring new works by Joan Marie Giampa. The new work is based on an alphabet composed of tulip tree twigs. The title, Anagramation, was coined today by David Betz during an intense brainstorming session about the work on a very productive skype session.
An-a-gra-mat-ion[an-uh-gruh-mey-shuhn], n. 1. An exhibition of paintings depicting roughhewn letters of the Alphabet, in an organic, seemingly naturally occurring font, composed from forest floor detritus. 2. Letters configured from tulip tree twigs, gathered along a hiking trail, and then graphically rendered onto the canvas. 3. Finding hidden and mystical meaning in letters by forming words, syllables, nonsense, fragments, hints of asemic writing, scat syllables, coded acronyms and hipster slang.
Red Caboose Gallery is teaming up with The Next Picasso Gallery for a dual gallery opening on June 21st, from 6-8 pm. featuring new works by Joan Marie Giampa. The new work is based on an alphabet composed of tulip tree twigs. The title, Anagramation, was coined today by David Betz during an intense brainstorming session about the work on a very productive skype session.
Exerpt from Press Release by David Betz
Joan Marie Giampa’s
latest series, which is the culmination of her long-term exploration of organic
found objects and asemic writing. Anagramation is an exhibition of 13
paintings depicting roughhewn letters of the Alphabet, in an organic, seemingly
naturally occurring font, composed from forest floor detritus. The letters were initially configured
from tulip tree twigs, gathered along local hiking trails, and then graphically
rendered onto the canvas. Successive layers of painterly color were built up
and then etched into, with the butt of a paint brush, creating
exquisite surfaces, which seem more like the result of
natural processes, like wind and water erosion, or soil
stratification, than the human hand. Looking at the tulip tree twigs
that formed part of her earlier vocabulary, in a fresh light Ms. Giampa
realized, “they’re speaking to me and I’m listening. I’ve decided to configure
them into letters for this series and… so the new work entails more of the
tulip tree twig, but with a language all it's own.”
The paintings themselves
can be presented in any number of groupings, with a multiplicity of potential
meanings. Hence the exhibition’s title Anagramation. Anagrams can be traced back to the time of Moses, as
"Themuru" or changing, which was used to find the hidden and mystical
meaning in names. Each time you reconfigure the
paintings in new combinations they take on fresh meanings, the sum total having
far greater implications than the individual parts. Fully formed words,
nonsense syllables, intriguing word fragments, hints of asemic writing, scat
syllables, coded acronyms, hipster slang, Dada
wordplay, are just some of the many possibilities in
hanging these works… The exhibition will be rehung and reconfigured weekly to
reflect the potentialities inherent in the letters.
