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Words Become Air: An Art Exhibtion

Ayakoh Furukawa
Dead People in Bloomingdale's
18"x24" graphite and red ink on paper, 2010, $4900

Words Become Air: An Art Exhibition
Curated by Karen Fitzgerald
Holiday Inn Manhattan View, 39-05 29th Street and
Space Realty Group Gallery 29-09 39th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11106

Public Reception: Thursday, January 26, 2012, 6-8pm., both venues
Dates: December 28, 2012 – April 17, 2012
Viewing hours: 24/7 at Holiday Inn, M-F 10-6pm at Space Realty Group

Language has often been included in visual art. Artists use titles as a way to suggest what they are thinking about. Some artists have also built powerful visual vocabularies using language as a basic visual component within the work. Yet the visual and verbal languages are profoundly different from each other. How do they affect each other? The work gathered together for this exhibition explores how two distinct languages intersect in the visual arena. Words bend color and form yet space within these 2-dimensional works also bends our wordy language. The results are as light as air, and as heavy as air most certainly is.

Ayakoh Furukawa writes:
Words are done only by text. You see dots but actually they are letters.These works are done by repetition of the quotations by Andy Warhol. Warhol has been a mystery to an artist like me. To know his mental side, I focused on his attitude on religion. Some people say he was sincerely religious person yet the words he left illustrate how he tried to be celebrity artist. Or he was just tired of being too serious and chose to party. As I repeat his quotation thousand times I had so many mental conversation with Andy and the conversation turn out featuring voluptuous girls. Warhol's idea of life/death lives in our glamor-seeking society. Or he predicted our current life.