Words That Start

Beauty Gallery and ArtYard

02.22.2025–06.08.2025February 22nd – June 8th, 2025

Michael Angelo Mangino, Untitled (Say, tax), 2024 (framed)

Michael Angelo Mangino, Untitled (Is sparked), 2024 (framed)

a white gallery wall with pale wooden floor and framed artworks hanging. each is in a different style, and in varying colors. there is a small thin pedestal with a small artwork on it.

Kayla Ephros, Poem 4SQ, 2024

Mick McDonough, Kiss From All Of Us This Dearly Love, 2024 (framed)

a small sculpture on a pedestal in a gallery. its a paper box with lid open and a small painting of trees and blue sky with the words 'we are obsessed with pain' in cut out arial text on the underside of the lid. in background is a framed artwork with the painted words 'kiss from all of us this dearly love' — Marisa Takal, We Are Obsessed With Pain, 2021

Marisa Takal, We Are Obsessed With Pain, 2021

Barb Riddle, Unknown

Dorian Reid, Roar Like a Leopard, 2021 (framed)

Olin Johnson, Untitled, 2024 (framed)

a gallery wall with several artworks hanging. there is a door at right and the artworks are quite different from one another.

Theo Baransky, Dreamworks, 2025 (framed)

Chris Corr-Barberis, Untitled

a white gallery spacw with framed arworks hanging on the wall and a wooden floor. There is a large 90s era television on a pedestal at right.

Jennifer Chai Shear, Toy, 2024 (framed)

Judy Barnett, Abraham Lincoln, 2024 (framed)

'Abbot and Costello' Carlo Daleo, 2018 (framed)

a photograph with saturated colors of a bedroom in a house with hand cut colored letters suspended with clear tape from the ceiling that say ' save our planet' in bold, simple font. — 'Save Our Planet' Eric Spencer, Gelatin Silver Print, 4 x 6 in. ND

a photograph with saturated colors of a room in a house with black hand cut letters suspended in front of a dark window that say 'whats my part' in capitals and in bold, rounded font. in front of them is a young man with pale skin and brown hair combed over from right to left. hes looking off to the right out of the frame with a pensive look. — 'What's My Part' Eric Spencer, Silver Gelatin Print, 4 x 6 in. ND

a gallery space with white walls, cool white light, and a framded artwork with text barely visible, and a terry cloth hanging with the words 'if you cant be the cows head dont be his tail be the bell that ring around his neck' written in spray paint in black, red, and dark dreen

Jennifer Chai Shear, Be Mine, 2024 (framed)

Otis Houston Jr., Untitled (If You Cant Be The Cows Head...), 2021

Barb Riddle, Unknown (framed)

a white gallery space with three walls visible and artwork hung all around, mostly framed, on the floor are two artworks that appear like flat metal signs with text thats obscured

Gabriel Garza, There Won't Be Time To Waste, 2020

Gabriel Garza, Resting on Ripped Paper, 2020

Michael Angelo Mangino, Untitled (Pinch pennies), 2024 (framed)

Michael Angelo Mangino, Untitled (Stories credits), 2024 (framed)

Theo Baransky, HSX, 2025 (framed)

Chris Corr-Barberis, Untitled

a white gallery space with cool white light and a long wall of framed artworks at an angle receding into space. closest is a blue painting with a small insignia in the center, followed by a light wooden assemblage with various shapes of wood fit inside a shallow box.

a photograph with saturated colors of a room with a window open and light coming in through some plants outside. inside, letters are hung from the ceiling on clear tape which say ' the wonderful world of mouthsounds' in a sort of fancy looking typeface with capital letters and several colors. in front of them poses a man with medium short brown hair, white skin, and a green shirt. — 'The Wonderful World of Mouthsounds' Eric Spencer, Gelatin Silver Print, 4 x 6 in. ND

Rotimi Osinubi, Zooey, 2024 (framed)

Judy Barnett, Yellow Flower, 2016 (framed)

Peter Harris, See, 2015

Chris Corr-Barberis, Untitled (framed)

Olin Johnson, Untitled, 2024 (framed)

Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 15 contemporary artists working with text in painting, drawing and sculpture. The spectra- from literal to abstract, demanding to dissolving, traditionally functional to highly formal- unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place, and how it could be unmade. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29's Beauty Gallery and ArtYard's Courtyard Gallery and brings together artwork by artists with and without disabilities working in a broad spectrum of styles, manners, and contexts.

Artworks and Images