SOUTHFIRST : PRESENTS
ROBERT GRENIER
"Language Objects: Letters in Space, 1970
- 2013"
May 18 - June 30, 2013
Reception for (& presentation by) the
artist, Sunday, 19 May 4 - 6 PM
SOUTHFIRST is proud to
present "Language Objects: Letters in Space, 1970 -
2013," a retrospective exhibition tracking (via notebooks,
holographic & published texts, archival materials and works on paper) the
evolution from early typewriter-generated forms to more recent four-color
drawing poems in the work of American poet Robert Grenier
between 1970 - 2013. The show will be on view from May 18 – June 30,
2013.
On Sunday, May 19, 4 - 6 PM, Robert Grenier will introduce the 'idea' for the show, and speak
to/read from & provisionally 'interpret' certain of the materials set forth
in the room.
Over the past 40 years, poet/artist Robert
Grenier (b. 1941) has constantly pushed poetry into
new frontiers of practice and utterance. His handwritten poems, produced in the
last two decades, cross the upper limit of inscription to be both writing and
drawing. His works include Series (This Press, 1978), SENTENCES
(Whale Cloth Press, 1978), Oakland (Tuumba
Press, 1980), A Day at the Beach (Roof Books, 1984), Phantom Anthems (O
Books, 1986), and OWL/ON/BOU/GH (Post-Apollo Press, 1997), as well
as more recent online color drawing poem sequences like POND 1 and PENN SCANS.
A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Grenier has received two NEA fellowships for poetry writing
and a 2013 grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. An archive of his
work is housed in the Stanford Libraries' Department of Special Collections. He
lives in northern Vermont.
SOUTHFIRST, founded in 2000, is located at 60
N6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn between Wythe and Kent Avenues. Gallery
hours are Fri., Sat. and Sun. from 1 - 6 PM and by appointment. Subway: L train
to Bedford Avenue. For more information, please contact Maika
Pollack at 718 599 4884 or info (@) southfirst.org.
SOUTHFIRST
60 N6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718 599 4884