WESTBETH GALLERY: Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. May 26 – June 17, 2012

THE IMAGE AND THE WORD
AN EXHIBITION OF ART AND POETRY

Reception on Saturday, June 2nd, 5-8pm.
Exhibit runs from May 26 to June 17, 2012

Curator’s Note
When I was in Paris a few of my friends would play the game of Tarot. This is not
played with the same deck used for telling one’s fortune but with a different and
more ancient one. I was immediately struck by the backs of the cards which were
divided in half by a line. Above the line was a painting and below the line was a
different painting. My friends informed me that both these images say the same
thing each in a different way. It is up to the viewer of the card to figure out this
message. I thought this a good starting point for an exhibition. Although the back
of this deck will be the poems, paintings, drawings and sculpture on the gallery
wall and floor, this will be an interesting game.
Each artist in the exhibition, either chose, wrote or had a poet friend write a poem
or poems to go along with their painting, sculpture, or drawing. The poems will be
hung on the wall adjacent to each work, or in some cases, groups of work.
It is also interesting to note that some of the artists in the Exhibition are published
poets.
“ If painting is nothing more than dumb poetry, than poetry must be blind painting”
Leonardo DaVinci

PARTICIPANTS
Richard Ahrnolz
Anneli Adams
Lynda Caspe
Maria Clark
Peter Coloquhoun
Tad Day
Laurence Fadin
Edward Eichel
Ronald De Nota
Robert Feinland
Wendy Gittler
Geoffrey Gneuhs
Myron Heise
Jerilyn Jurinek
Marion Lerner Levine
Robert Ludwig
Patricia Melvin
Valerie Meddelson
Kate O Toole
Regina Perlin
Vincent Pinto
Andy Pizzo
Jaqueline Rada
John Rettick
Larry Rushing
John Servetas
Philip Lawrence Sherrod
John L Silver
Richard Sloat

curator: John Silver

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