John Bankston
Amy Blakemore

Noah Davis

Txt
Davis and Langlois
Tanya Batura
Margot Quan Knight
Mirror Mirror
Alexander Kroll
Jason Hirata
Amir Zaki
Ron Nagle
Akio Takamori
Danny Lyon
Mary Ann Peters
Luis Tomasello
Eric Elliott
Andrew Witkin
Jeffry Mitchell
Steve Davis
Introductions: David Huffman
Adam Sorensen
Francois Van Reenen
Beth Campbell
Claude Zervas
Stephanie Syjuco
Todd Simeone
Jason Teraoka
Vik Muniz

Scott Foldesi
Mark Mumford
Claire Cowie
Yunhee Min
Roy McMakin
Tania Kitchell
Richard Rezac
Carlos Vega
Eric Elliott
Squeak Carnwath
Maki Tamura

Margot Quan Knight
Gary Hill
Message In A Bottle
Adam Sorensen
Claire Cowie
Bing Wright
Roy McMakin
Katrina Moorhead
Claudette Schreuders
Marcelino Goncalves
room X room
Rashid Johnson
Scott Foldesi
Shaun O'Dell
Claude Zervas
Amir Zaki
Glenn Rudolph
Angela Fraleigh
Jeffry Mitchell
Steve Davis
Mary Ann Peters
Mark Mumford
Roy McMakin
Geoffrey Chadsey
Patrick Holderfield
Junctions
Todd Simeone
Claire Cowie
Laura Letinsky
Keith Tilford
Mary Ann Peters
Jeffry Mitchell
Richard Rezac
Stephanie Syjuco
Claude Zervas
Squeak Carnwath
Marcelino Gonçalves
Peter Schuyff
Tom Baldwin
Tania Kitchell
Jeffry Mitchell

Shaun O'Dell

Mark Mumford

Efrain Almeida

Keith Tilford
Glenn Rudolph
Claire Cowie
Patrick Holderfield

Ramona Trent
Roy McMakin
Yunhee Min

Claude Zervas

Casey Keeler

Henry Turmon
Lisa Liedgren
Laurie Reid
Amir Zaki
Adam Ross
Richard Rezac
Geoffrey Chadsey
Claire Cowie
Michelle Fierro


Mark Mumford: New Work


January 4th - February 3rd, 2006

 

Mark Mumford, Untitled, 2006, Vinyl


James Harris Gallery is pleased to present the second exhibition of text-based work by Mark Mumford. In this show, the artist continues his investigation of words and phrases often found in everyday speech. Creating text-based images produced from commercially made vinyl lettering, and then applying them directly to the gallery walls, the work is, at its core, performative. But, instead of being a physical act of endurance the pieces are intellectually driven by the complexity of language.

Rooted in everyday speech and composed of words and phrases that resonate in the uneasy tensions of the contemporary world, the works themselves go far beyond ruminations of language. Manipulation and suggestion through linguistic referencing, the language of control, the challenge to accept the modes of authorship and the presentation of advertisement in contemporary culture are all present. As a result, each piece becomes a shifting ground of meaning while demonstrating the ever-present power of language.

The circular compositions and bold fonts emphasize the rhythm and authority found in everyday speech, the shape reiterates the phrases as signifiers for philosophical and political musings. Visually bold and achingly funny, the signs contrive a situation where, in the artist’s words, “meaning hovers on the threshold of realization, and where the knotty relationships between seeing and reading, reading and believing, believing and seeing are given a full and lively expression….They are, in essence, Neo-Pop paintings that pit spatial syntax against linguistic syntax, and in so doing, provide gallery visitors with a chance to fully experience the blinding noise that words alone create.”


 

 

 

     

 

 

 


 
 
     

 

 

 
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