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Joseph
Grigely (born in 1956 in east Longmeadow, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) lives
and works in Jersey City and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Joseph Grigely's art is an art about conversations - the paths they
take, the shapes and colours they have, and the stories they tell
in the process of being retold. Grigely, who became deaf as a result
of a childhood accident, uses as his raw material the written conversations
that he has in his daily life; the scraps of paper on which hearing
people have written notes, names, or phrases in order to coverse with
him when he cannot read their lips.
He uses these scraps of conversations to build wall pieces and table-top
tableaux that all take as their subject matter the ineluctable differences
between speech and writing, and reading and listening. |
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