Stacey Fisher • Deb Hall • Tom Mazzullo • Louise P. Sloane

On View September 1 - October 27

Special Events:

Artist's Reception, Sunday, September 9, 3 - 5pm

Gallery Talk by Tom Mazzullo, Sunday, October 21, 2pm

Featuring drawings, paintings and two-dimensional designs by four New York State artists, Stacey Fisher, Deb Hall, Tom Mazzullo & Louise P. Sloane, this exhibit explores the use of text in visual imagery.

Stacey Fisher describes her body of work as a part of a large exploration of how she critically and creatively investigates American English using visual and methaphorical abstractions. Her paintings are created by stenciling the basic components of the Roman-English Alphabet, straight lines and half circles, on Plexiglas and pressing them in various ways. Fisher received her BFA from Ohio State University and is currently residing in Rochester, NY.

Inspired by type, language and its transformation, Deb Hall's digital images reflect our highly caffeinated, constantly moving, technological environment. Language, symbols, information and communication are continuing theme's in Halls' energetic imagery. Deb Hall is an Associate Professor of Art at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Tom Mazzullo's silverpoint drawings explore the use of object grouping in a single composition.He treats letters as subjects in a still-life. Recently Mazzullo has been interested in making words, not based on roots or on phoenetics, but on the arrangements of their letters. He describes his images, "It's a kind of visual poetry, the trick being to create a word that is both beautiful to see and pleasant to say, and that makes a sort of sense in the context of its presentation." Mazzullo received his MFA from Syracuse University and has taught at Cayuga Community College in Auburn, Hamilton College and Syracuse University. He currently resides in Utica, NY.

Louise P. Sloane has been actively engaged in the studio since 1974.  Her paintings are the embodiment of her years as an abstract reductive painter.  Sloane's work focuses upon geometric forms, grids, repetitive patterns, actual writing, solid panes of lushly layered intense color and the retinal response to vivid colors and textures presented in a post minimalist context. Her goal has been to create objects with presence: Paintings that can be seen at their basic physical appearance and appreciated at face value. Sloane currently lives and works in Kings Point, NY.