Untitled, Ink on Vellum, 2001
Contact: Terry Glispin
386-9207
tglispin@msn.com
January 12, 2002
though February 22, 2002
Opening Reception: Saturday,
January 12, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
The work is a study of new notions about defining atrocity
in an information age with the attitude of quick fixes for every aspect of life...
life becomes artificial and sped up and mass-produced and, eventually, tarnished...the
work speaks to interests in sensory overload through methods related to tagging,
sampling, multiplicity, etc...the work moves between mechanical and handmade
processes, reflecting beliefs about dichotomies that exist within people...subjects
can be cold, impersonal, and intimate...subjects can simultaneously lack confrontation
and be totally confrontational...the works study ideas reduced to icons representing
social issues through individual situations and relationships...the works use
generic symbolism and text as the collective medium and these media become a
system of terse original prose...this prose explores facades seen through literalization
of factual information...the work speaks to the necessity of methodical subversion
as a solution to understanding atrocities.
To control the viewer’s perceptions, I combine the literal and the conceptual
in a minimal manner...I do this to give the viewer a limited amount of isolated
physically tangible information...repitions and juxtaposition play a major role,
creating the desired tension between my surfaces and the viewer...every compositional
choice reflects an interpreted opinion of a subject...I use simplified elements
and forms to create a sense of conceptual tangibility and an activation of comparative
imaging...within this imaging, there always lies a system of formative units
which work together to form a distinctive whole...within this imaging, there
lies a calm perception of atrocities beneath a logically constructed and very
thinly veiled surface.
-Lester Merriweather