Lee Etheredge IV   order and disorder 3 january - 3 february, 2003 opening friday 3 january, 7-9p gallery 2         bloody lane (detail), 2002 type on c-print 18.5 x 19 inches         press release Pierogi is also delighted to present Lee Etheredge IV's second one-person New York exhibition. Etheredge continues his investigations in breaking down language from a practical perspective and reformulating it through conceptual and visual experimentation using a typewriter. At times Etheredge develops the work as concrete poetry but more often than not he uses the 26 letters of the alphabet as elements in subtle drawn patterns. In this exhibition, in addition to the typewriter marks, he incorporates photography referencing history and place to create an historic narrative element. Taking the Roman alphabet as his raw material and the IBM Wheelwriter as his fundamental tool, Etheredge teases out spirals of signification that range from a mathematical or "chilly" fascination with pure order to a "warm" or sensual tang that clings to language as a matrix of human thought. Arrays of letters chosen for their ink-density or curvilinear shape determine certain images. But others are constructed around text fragments drawn from specific sources and connoting quite particular narratives. (Frances Richard, 2002)   __________________________________________________________________   20 april - 21 may, 2001 works on paper     (detail)         installation view (good over evil and evil over good, diptych)             day and night, 2000 ink on paper 8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches       press release Pierogi is very pleased to present the first solo show of Lee Etheredge, IV. Etheredge's interest is to break down language from a practical perspective and to reformulate it; to open up new modes of communication and discovery through conceptual and visual experimentation. All of his work is done with a typewriter as he finds it a more direct and physical response, as an accumulation of marks. The computer is not used in any way with respect to the works' creation or execution. Most often, concepts for future works are raised by the ideas or questions that are revealed while working on an earlier piece. Etheredge is drawn to the typewriter because of its marks—regular and gridlike, but assigned meaning for written as well as spoken communication. I chose the typewriter as a musician might the piano—possibilities fixed in a way by a limited number of notes, but infinite in composition and expression. My notes are the 26 letters of the alphabet. This show will feature four large framed drawings, each five by five feet. These drawings represent time in the way in which they were made—one letter after another, one row after another. They are half of a series of eight drawings that make a complete revolution of a clock as you move from one drawing to another. The show will also include a selection of smaller works on paper in which unique formal shapes and patterns are developed, again using only the typewriter.   Pierogi also presents the ever expanding Flat Files, featuring works of 700+ artists. See our website (www.pierogi2000.com) for more information.
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