8 • ISSUE October 2011
Volume 18, No. 2
Words &
ARTISTS INTERPRET THE LINES, ‘HOW IN A WORLD GILT WITH LOVE/MAY Story and photo by Andy Coughlan
VISITORS TO THE ART Studio this year may have noticed two lines of poetry pasted up around the facility. It seems that wherever you turned, it was hard to avoid seeing the lines: How in a world gilt with love May I thank you beyond this human cadence.
If you pondered their meaning, ponder no more. TASI’s October exhibition is a group show featuring works by more than 20 artists who chose to accept the challenge to interpret those lines through their own particular media. The show opens Oct. 1 with a reception from 7-10 p.m., and runs through Oct. 29. “Nathan Jones, Kimberly Brown and I were having a discussion during an opening about having a show with the same theme with dif-
ferent artists and observing how they approach the subject matter,” Elizabeth French, TASI administrator, said. “Each interpretation would be as different as each artist. We just thought that would be an interesting show, one that hadn’t been done in a while. “It’s self-curating, because we just allowed anybody who was willing to make a piece for the show enter as long as they were members of The Studio.” Once the idea was decided upon, the next thing was to select a theme. Artist and long-time Studio member George Wentz, who died in 2009, contributed poetry to the ISSUE’s “Thoughtcrime” poetry page for years. It was decided to choose lines from a poem that could lead to a broad range of interpretations. “It wasn’t a literal thing that someone could just do an illustration of,” French said. “It’s thought provoking and I really liked the ‘human cadence’ part.” French said that being able to relate a piece of artwork to its inspi-
Kailee Viator works on her painting for the October poetry show at The Art Studio in the senior painting lab at Lamar University.
