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Over
the past years I have been making drawings from a
list of cliches and common phrases which contain the
conjunction "and" reordered so the words
on either side of that conjunction are reversed. (e.g.,
"awe and shock," "feathered and tarred,"
"determined and bound.") This alteration,
which includes undermining the words’ legibility
by obscuring some of their letters, is meant to cause
a re-evaluation of the phrase's original meaning which
has been eroded from overuse in cliches or slogans,
and to suggest new words, and meanings that may be
more open-ended. In these drawings, the reversed phrases
exist on banners that float through a nebulous but
degraded atmosphere.
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Randy Twaddle
Randy
Twaddle was born in 1957 in Elmo, a town of 199 people
in northwest Missouri. After graduating with a BFA
from Northwest Missouri State University in 1980,
he moved to Dallas, Texas where he set up a studio
and worked as a framer and preparator. In 1985 he
began his gallery affiliation with the Moody Gallery
in Houston, Texas, where he moved in 1989. Twaddle
began showing regularly there and in Dallas and was
also later represented by galleries in New York, Boston,
San Diego and San Francisco. In 1986 he was included
in drawing exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, as well as the
New Orleans Triennial. He won a National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship in 1987, and was the recipient
of an Awards in the Visual Arts in 1990. Twaddle was
a Visiting Artist at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill in 1990, and a Visiting Assistant Professor
at the University of Houston from 1993-94. In 1996
Twaddle received his MFA from the University of Houston.
Soon after, he took a sabbatical from his studio practice
and ended all his gallery affiliations. In 1998 he
co-founded a marketing and communications company
called ttweak. On July 1, 2002, Twaddle’s wife,
Marianne Green, (also an artist) gave birth to a beautiful
boy they named Cyrus. Soon after, Twaddle began drawing,
and has begun exhibiting again in Houston, Dallas,
and Austin. Randy, Marianne and Cy live in Houston,
Texas.
www.randytwaddle.com
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