graphic design
TRi
2.15.08
“In this exhibit I found myself exploring what is literal and what is abstract. Humans have developed an overwhelming number of communication methods. Some are more, immediately, specific than others. For example, try explaining a figurative dance performance with binary computer code. Or, for that matter, try reporting the quarterly financials to your boss with an improvised dance. It’s easy to imagine that the end result of both experiences would probably end disastrously in our society.
However, the inappropriateness of choosing the wrong communication tool to give information, logical or emotional, to another human is precisely what I’ve found myself exploiting in my work. Sometimes communication is a disaster, and sometimes it’s beautiful. Either way there are often large consequences. But this work is in an art gallery, and the art that is communicated in that space is allowed to explore such consequences safely. Appropriately removed from the rules of our universe, a word doesn’t have to be a word, a shape doesn’t have to be a shape, nor does a color, a sentence or a sound. They are given the freedom to be what’s behind them…minds mixed with hearts, creating souls of an unknown universe. A universe that we probably don’t have to travel to, we just have to make art about.
Remember the beauty and the awkwardness of communication when observing my work. I hope it reminds you of the awkward beauty of being a human.”
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David Geisler, currently owns and operates the small store front art gallery titled 716: Fine Art in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. He also works part-time as Graphic Designer for a small storefront copy shop called Copy Center. In his spare time, he enjoys working full-time for the Kenosha News.
