Available Space presents a collaborative book project by poet Denise Duhamel and visual artist Michelle Weinberg.
Visual and verbal rhyme. Mystery. Humor. Off Duty Beauty. Vicinity of Femininity.
The pages of Double Trouble are eccentric repositories for language that doubles and mirrors, and they derive from a natural, spirited collaboration between artist and poet, whose imaginations are aroused along similar lines. The scenes depicted evoke traditional scroll narratives as well as scenography from 1960s and 70s cartoons such as Tom and Jerry. They uncover the miraculous (or at least the humorous) amidst the banalities of everyday situations and stories. Weinberg’s interest in hand-drawn typography and signage is evident, and the words float like banners or subtitles, or are planted like lawn signs or billboards in the landscapes and interiors. An extra bright laser is focused on the feminist condition. Pattern as visual rhythm is engaged in these works, and the repeated phrases have an aural incantatory quality, like mantras or echoes.
Collaborators: Michelle Weinberg and Denise Duhamel
Partners: IS Projects, Mixed Use Space, 2urn