OBJECT POEMS, CURATED BY DAVID ABEL, AT 23 SANDY GALLERY IN NOVEMBER

Exhibition Dates: November 4 - 26, 2011

Location: 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Online catalog: http://www.23sandy.com/objectpoems/catalog.html

Object Poems brings together striking and varied works by contemporary artist-poets and poet-artists: poems in three dimensions; interactive poems; found poems; sculptural and utilitarian poems; conceptual poems; poems that depart in myriad ways from the familiar form of the printed page. The exhibition features more than thirty artists from across the United States, as well as Canada, England, Scotland, and Uruguay, including seven artists from Oregon.

David Abel, the curator, says that “there have been a number of exhibitions and publications devoted to the work of authors as artists: paintings, drawings, sculptures, created independently of the writings for which they are primarily known. To assemble this exhibition, in contrast, I searched for three-dimensional works that had been created as poems, by means of a compositional and poetic practice that was not separate from the artist’s written work. The range of genres, media, and styles is remarkable and demonstrates again the interdependence of advances in all the arts.”

OBJECT POEMS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS:

David Abel, Portland, Oregon

Harriet Bart, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Michael Basinski, Buffalo, New York

Bill Berkson, San Francisco, California

Jen Bervin, Brooklyn, New York

Jim Clinefelter, Portland, Oregon

Norma Cole, San Francisco, California

Leo & Anna Daedalus, Portland, Oregon

K. S. Ernst, Blairstown, New Jersey

Alec Finlay, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Alan Halsey, Sheffield, England

Mary Ann Hayden, Oakland, California

Geof Huth, Schenectady, New York

Joseph Keppler, Seattle, Washington

Alison Knowles, New York, New York

Drew Kunz, Suquamish, Washington

J. A. Lee, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Eric Magrane, Tucson, Arizona

Steve McCaffery, Buffalo, New York

Mark Owens & Maria José Gonzalez Arredondo, Portland, Oregon

Clemente Padin, Montevideo, Uruguay

Kristin Prevallet, Brooklyn, New York

Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Peekskill/NYC, New York

Kaia Sand, Portland, Oregon

Kyle Schlesinger, Austin, Texas

Buzz Spector, St. Louis, Missouri

Curtis Steiner, Seattle, Washington

Andrew Topel, Clearwater, Florida

James Yeary, Portland, Oregon

Nico Vassilakis, Seattle, Washington

ABOUT THE CURATOR — David Abel is a poet, editor, bookseller, interdisciplinary artist, and curator. He has organized more than two hundred literary and multi-arts events over the past thirty years in New York City, Albuquerque, and Portland. In 2007, he conceived and curated By All Means: Artist’s Books and Objects for the New American Art Union. A founding member of Portland’s Spare Room reading series, now in its tenth year, he is a copublisher of the Airfoil chapbook series, and publisher of the Envelope broadside series. The author of numerous chapbooks and artist’s books, he has also devised many solo and collaborative performance, film, theater, and intermedia projects. A Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno for 2010–12, he is currently co-administering 13 Hats, a yearlong platform for collaborative work by a dozen Portland visual artists and writers.

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A full online catalog for Object Poems can be found at http://www.23sandy.com/objectpoems/catalog.html

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