Jo Ernsten in 'Beyond Language' an overseas printmedia exhibition
The works of one of our printmaking teachers - Jo Ernsten is now showing in 'Beyond Language' at AshvilleBookworks - North Carolina USA.
This is an exhibition of printed works made using the ' building blocks of communication, all of them structured deliberately not to be read as text, but rather understood as compositions. A few pieces in the show take a path toward literally making illustrations with letters that have been whimsically liberated from their usual work of making words, while other works arrive to use more abstactly and with a strange beauty that is ironically bound to them by their illegibility'
This is an exhibition of printed works made using the ' building blocks of communication, all of them structured deliberately not to be read as text, but rather understood as compositions. A few pieces in the show take a path toward literally making illustrations with letters that have been whimsically liberated from their usual work of making words, while other works arrive to use more abstactly and with a strange beauty that is ironically bound to them by their illegibility'
