Co-curated by Edie Overturf and Kevin Haas. 

Wordplay features artists who use text as an integral element of their creative practice in printmaking and print based media. The work in this exhibit illustrates the charged relationships between images, text, formats and their context. Pulling from popular forms of advertising and display, ordinary written notes, reinterpretations of existing texts, to forceful political statements, these artists play with the familiarity of text to unexpected ends. They create dissonant, satirical, humorous, deadpan, or urgent messages, often through the contrast between what the text says and its means of presentation. The works included in Wordplay require interpretations beyond the simple reading of the text, offering the opportunity to read between the lines.

Exhibition Dates and Locations

Mount Hood Community College October 24- November 22, 2022

Washington State University Gallery 2 January 12 – February 10, 2023 

Included Artists

Randy Bolton (TX)

Katie Garth (PA)

Ruthann Godellei (MN)

Kevin Haas (WA)

Joe Lupo (WV)

Christine Miller (OR)

Edie Overturf (OR)

Dayon Royster (KS)

Zeinab Saab (OR)

Nick Satinover (TN)

Holly Balllard Martz (WA)

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