SUMMER READING June 3-25 JOE AMRHEIN DAVID KRAMER NORMA MARKLEY EDWARD MONOVICH ELLIE MURHPY BRUCE PEARSON SANTE SCARDILLO WARD SHELLEY CAROL WARNER ROXANNE WOLANCZYK "Summer Reading" is a group exhibition of works of art in a wide variety of media and styles that all contain text. JOE AMRHEIN constructed a set of glass shelves with hand-painted enamel and gold letters on them through which a specially-placed light shines to form provocative and poetic combinations of words on the wall. DAVID KRAMER collages made with media detritus and pencil drawings combined with his stream-of-consciousness poems typed directly onto drawing paper with an old-fashioned typewriter provide what feels like a peek into his unconscious mind. NORMA MARKLEY also types her Tourettes-like ramblings directly onto drawing paper, then adds "paint chips" (paint color samples), leaving on the color names, thus adding to and skewing the meaning of the typed-on parts. She also paints and draws on the paper, thus further enriching the text component as well as adding to the considerable purely-formal beauty of the works. EDWARD MONOVICH cuts words out of newspapers, magazines and custom-makes his own rubber stamps that he then works into his insidiously cute, humorous paintings of animals to make social commentary, especially about economics and the financial world. ELLIE MURHPY started with a brochure made to entice prospective students to Parsons School of Design and gave it a treatment and presentation that so benignly satirizes the intent, making it seem so fantastic and socially irrelevant, that it makes you think the authors might be trying to convince the readers to come along with them to another planet or some Oz-like place. BRUCE PEARSON's psychedelic paintings are formed by seemingly ever-morphing shapes that are, when one squints and looks at them just right, also letters laconically spelling out philosophical phrases and maxims. SANTE SCARDILLOscans ads from magazines and alters them, hi-jacking their intentional promotional goal by his subversive additions. The resulting images bubble over with satire and social critique. WARD SHELLEY's contributed an autobiographical drawing that c and philosophy, and the ascendance and descendance in influence of lovers and friends. CAROL WARNER weaves illustrations she finds in magazines, using strips of various widths, patterns and images to create a new form that bears little resemblance to the originals. She then scans and prints them. Sending the object back to the press, they come full-circle. ROXANNE WOLANCZYK silkscreens words that express frustration and anger such as "It was embarrassing." onto paper to form delicate, lovely targets that she then shoots up with a 38 Special.