{"id":67701,"date":"2007-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/motives-for-writing-a-text-in-five-movements-by-irene-lawrence\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"motives-for-writing-a-text-in-five-movements-by-irene-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/01\/motives-for-writing-a-text-in-five-movements-by-irene-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Motives for Writing: A Text in Five Movements by Irene Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCorridor Gallery

\nFine Arts Center Galleries

\näçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾<\/p>\n


\nJanuary 24 \u2013 February 25, 2007<\/p>\n


\nGallery Reception Sunday, January 28, 2-4 pm<\/p>\n


\nKingston, RI\u2014MOTIVES FOR WRITING is a body of abstract prints and paintings that have passionately occupied Providence based artist Irene Lawrence for several years. Lawrence has a long-term involvement with painting via formative training at the Rhode Island School of Design as well as with printmaking, instruction in the latter featuring concentrated study at Crown Point Press, San Francisco, from 1997-99.<\/p>\n


\nWithin her series of painting and prints is an important project Lawrence has undertaken recently, developing a conceptually unique artist\u2019s book\u2014an imaginative book without words. As the artist explains, MOTIVES FOR WRITING: A TEXT IN FIVE MOVEMENTS is the title of a book whose content invokes the broad tradition of marks associated with written communication and the rhythms of text, poetry and music. The book is structured by sequencing the digital reproductions of etchings made by the artist. The reader\/listener becomes attentive to the progression of the book that does away with conventional narrative like modernist pioneer Alain Robbe-Grillet before her, but even more, dispenses with words per se.<\/p>\n


\nLawrence draws excitedly on performing arts as well as visual arts traditions for her craft. In addition to being a devoted practitioner of fine art, she is a musician and proponent of listening to live concert music who is also involved in the literary arts. In self-knowing fashion, Lawrence writes of her book, \u201cIts choreography is structured in the spirit of reading a novel, a long poem or listening to a piece of music. It might also be considered an improvisation.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nRecently one of Lawrence\u2019s aquatints served as the cover for a book of poems by Catherine Imbriglio, Parts of the Mass (Burning Deck Press, 2006). That print was originally part of 7 Black Poems by Irene Lawrence. The upcoming exhibition, disclosing itself along the lateral exhibition display cases of the Corridor Gallery, promises to speak to viewers in novel and elastic ways, and to \u201csound\u201d brightly as a visually and intellectually absorbing harbinger of the new year. Juxtaposed to the concomitant Main Gallery exhibition called Looking at the Land: Merrill Wagner Paintings, abstraction will be felt to run live and deep and resonant as 2007 takes shape.<\/p>\n


\nGallery Reception

\nSunday, January 28, 2-4 pm

\nJoin us!

\nCorridor Gallery hours

\nDaily, 9 am \u2013 9 pm<\/p>\n


\nThe FINE ARTS CENTER GALLERIES are open to the public without charge

\nand are handicapped accessible.

\nThe Galleries are closed on federal and local holidays.<\/p>\n


\nFIDELITY INVESTMENTS is the major sponsor of our 2006\/07 season.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Corridor Gallery Fine Arts Center Galleries äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ January 24 \u2013 February 25, 2007 Gallery Reception Sunday, January 28, 2-4 pm Kingston, RI\u2014MOTIVES FOR WRITING is a body of abstract prints and paintings that have passionately occupied Providence based artist Irene Lawrence for several years. Lawrence has a long-term involvement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}