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  • The Language of Gesture, Durango Arts Center Gallery, Colorado, (Installation View) 2015.
  • The Language of Gesture, Durango Arts Center Gallery, Colorado, (Installation View) 2015.
  • The Language of Gesture, Durango Arts Center Gallery, Colorado, (Installation View) 2015.
  • The Language of Gesture, Durango Arts Center Gallery, Colorado, (Announcement) 2015.

Durango Arts Center

Joyce Cutler-Shaw, a California-based artist of intermedia-including drawings, installations, public projects and artist’s books, presents her drawings and book arts at the Durango Arts Center Gallery in a one-person show from May 8th to June 27th, 2015.

“The Language of Gesture” showcases a cross-section of drawings, artists books, sketchbooks, and exhibition catalogs by Southern California Artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw. An artist of intermedia, Cutler-Shaw is known for her drawings, installations, public commissions and artist’s books…

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Exhibitions:

  • [UN]BOUND
  • Durango Arts Center
  • 100 Artists 100 Years
  • What Comes to Mind: Nature-Human Nature and Visual Translation
  • Seeing Ourselves Exhibition
  • Body Narratives: NYU Langone Medical Center Library in New York City
  • EcoArt Exhibition, PORI Museum, Finland
  • NMSU Exhibition: Of Water and the River: Meditations on the Rio Grande
  • Episodes of the City: New York as a Source Book

...Drawing is her primary language from two-dimensional pen and ink works on paper to their sculptural translations and original calligraphies, such as her award winning and and widely published "Alphabet of Bones", part of her "Messenger Cycle (1975-1990)". "Alphabet of Bones" is a 26 character, new alphabet that has been digitized and can be translated into the English alphabet as well as symbolic code. It is her own copyrighted typeface that has been widely published and honored. Included in her honors was the award of a publication prize from the Center for Book Arts in New York City, which published a limited edition of "Three Cages", which was a small triangular book of unusual folds with images and an original poetic text in English and the Alphabet of Bones.

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