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May Issue 2008
Queens University in Charlotte, NC,
Features Works by Janette Grassi and Doni Jordan
Queens University in Charlotte, NC, will present
the exhibition, Stretch: Type, featuring a collaboration
exhibition between Janette Grassi of Charlotte, NC, and Doni
Jordan of Columbia, SC. The exhibit, on view in the Max L. Jackson
Gallery, located in the Watkins Building at Queens University,
will be on view from May 8 through June 8, 2008.
Janette Grassi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doni Jordan
Janette Grassi is an abstract expressionist painter and creates mixed media art. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Doni Jordan creates mixed media assemblages, collages and fiber art. She received a BFA in studio art from the University of South Carolina. The exhibition is a collaborative exhibition of typography and pictorial abstraction and includes paintings, collage, gel prints and mixed media assemblages.
After attending an art session by Peter Madden of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, during the Southeast Association for Book Art (SABA) Conference in Columbia, SC, Grassi and Jordan, worked individually and collectively using additive and reductive processes and recognizable icons and typography to create a series of gel prints. Pushing the concept further, each explored different mediums. Jordan created tomes, a collection of heavy books using metal and wooden printer's type and trays and found objects. Grassi expanded her character series, a collection of paintings on canvas and paper and deconstructed old books to create collages on paper.
Grassi and Jordan, both trained as graphic designers, began creating art together in 1998 in Columbia, SC. Their first joint effort was the line, a floor to ceiling typographical installation at Vista Studios. When Grassi moved to Charlotte in 2002, they continued their creative collaborations. Since 1998 they have collaborated on 20 art projects including Benchmark, a public art project in 2000 and founded Cattywampus, a creative art group of five artists which went on to win Best of Show during the 2002 Festival of Trees, a fundraiser for the Palmetto Health Children's Hospital in Columbia. In March of 2008, they created "play", a painted violin to benefit the South Carolina Philharmonic.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 704/337-2270 or visit (www.queens.edu).
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