Moody Gallery presents Randy Twaddle: Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding artist reception

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Photo by Randy Twaddle

Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, an exhibition of recent work by Randy Twaddle, will be on view at Moody Gallery.

For Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, Twaddle will be showing new paintings on paper that derived from a series of small, sketchbook "devotionals" that Twaddle undertook at his dining table over a period of 18 months. Those ballpoint pen drawings consisted of self-authored aphorisms and malapropisms, for example, "The universe hears you better when you whisper." "Where there's a will there's a weight," rendered in a cursive script framed by idiosyncratic cartouche-shapes, and surrounded by multi-directional sets of parallel lines. Though those "devotional" texts are the basis for the work in Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, they have been relegated to a functional status as titles for the paintings, and their words have been replaced by circles of various sizes and colors, set within a ground of poured coffee and lines drawn in ink.

Following the artist reception, the exhibit will be on display through July 2.

Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, an exhibition of recent work by Randy Twaddle, will be on view at Moody Gallery.

For Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, Twaddle will be showing new paintings on paper that derived from a series of small, sketchbook "devotionals" that Twaddle undertook at his dining table over a period of 18 months. Those ballpoint pen drawings consisted of self-authored aphorisms and malapropisms, for example, "The universe hears you better when you whisper." "Where there's a will there's a weight," rendered in a cursive script framed by idiosyncratic cartouche-shapes, and surrounded by multi-directional sets of parallel lines. Though those "devotional" texts are the basis for the work in Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, they have been relegated to a functional status as titles for the paintings, and their words have been replaced by circles of various sizes and colors, set within a ground of poured coffee and lines drawn in ink.

Following the artist reception, the exhibit will be on display through July 2.

Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, an exhibition of recent work by Randy Twaddle, will be on view at Moody Gallery.

For Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, Twaddle will be showing new paintings on paper that derived from a series of small, sketchbook "devotionals" that Twaddle undertook at his dining table over a period of 18 months. Those ballpoint pen drawings consisted of self-authored aphorisms and malapropisms, for example, "The universe hears you better when you whisper." "Where there's a will there's a weight," rendered in a cursive script framed by idiosyncratic cartouche-shapes, and surrounded by multi-directional sets of parallel lines. Though those "devotional" texts are the basis for the work in Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding, they have been relegated to a functional status as titles for the paintings, and their words have been replaced by circles of various sizes and colors, set within a ground of poured coffee and lines drawn in ink.

Following the artist reception, the exhibit will be on display through July 2.

WHEN

WHERE

Moody Gallery
2815 Colquitt St.
Houston, TX 77098
https://www.moodygallery.com/Exhibitions/sham-ling-dong-ding_2016.html

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