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Experience this thought-provoking exhibit through the month of January.

Creatively orchestrating the diverse colors and shapes that the visuality of the printed word allows, Terry Rosenberg's exhibit dramatically evokes the complex, controversial networks of meanings that connect the common yet contested buzzwords that pervade contemporary politics and popular culture. In this art, the words are not mere ornament in the service of pictorial values, but instead provide through their meanings the work's primary focus. The words depicted are colorfully highlighted, typographically reshaped, reversed, or otherwise distorted from their conventional form. By thus accentuating (hence making more visible) the colorful visuality of these words, Rosenberg productively stirs up their expressive meanings and provocative connotations for the viewer

In Rosenberg's textual art, the words are not strung together in sophisticated sentences or even in catchy short slogans but simply placed (usually in isolated, contrasting pairs) in stark juxtaposition essentially devoid of sentential syntax. Freed from serving any particular sentential meaning so that they can reverberate in their colorful associations, the words paradoxically mean more not less.

About Terry Rosenberg
Through his paintings, sculptures and drawings, Terry Rosenberg explores physical, metaphysical, psychological and sociological aspects of the human condition by tailoring relationships between perception, consciousness and processes. He has exhibited his work widely in the US and abroad, and it is included in numerous museum collections such as Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna. The artist lives and works in New York City. For more information about the artist, visit www.terryrosenberg.com.