Winter Music/Madonna Comix: Photographic Collaborations between Artists and Poets Robert Kelly – Susan Quasha – Dianne Kornberg - Celia Bland

While there are countless examples of collaborations between artists and poets, this show will focus on the punctuation of words by images/images by words—and how the two (puncturing? punctured?) processes inform one another without illustrating or defining one another.


WINTER MUSIC is a collaboration between artist/photographer Susan Quasha and renowned poet Robert Kelly, published by ‘T’ Space Editions. In poems that powerfully embody the excitement of seeing a world for the first time, Kelly responds “to her body of luminous lyrical enactment, free of narrative, almost devoid of dependency on subject, let alone the human subject, and yet which well over with emotion, desire, joy in beholding. Using only the image full-formed in the camera, with no subsequent manipulation, she gives us a precious thing, a chance to see with her seeing, not just what she saw. We become the agent of her investigation into the colors of our attention.”

In MADONNA COMIX (Media f8), a series of 26 prints based on 11 poems by Celia Bland, Dianne Kornberg transposes images of innocence, faith, motherhood and fire over lines from the poems and a pentimento of “Little Lulu” comics. Kornberg used Photoshop to manipulate photographs, re-assembling them to create a technique reminiscent of hand-washed etchings. In his introduction to Madonna Comix, Luc Sante wrote: “Limbs, beaks, crotches, feathers all tumble over the page. With the backing scrim of comics the effect is bottomless. What runs through these pages--words and images, violence and humor, doubt and possession—the sum of them is love.”

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Location: Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library

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