Mining the Literary Landscape

William Mazza—a collective member of Syracuse’s Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City—uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page…and one painting.

SUSTAINING SPONSORS: Walter Putter & Marilyn Smith

EXHIBIT SPONSORS
Margrit Diehl, Diane Grafly & Paul Pearce, Andy Molloy & Debra Douthit, Lorraine Morganti, and Anita Welych

SEASON SPONSORS
Joseph Carpenter & Richard Odom, Annemarie Deegan, Chris Flynn, Nirelle & Allen Galson – In Honor of Robert Colley, GEGENSATZ PRESS, Sam Gruber, Ruth Heller & Bennet Schaber, Joe Marusa & Beth Drew, Jeremy McKay, Sarah Stewart McIlvain, Lauren & Walter Melnikow, Diane Murphy, Shirley & Larry Novak, George Savage, Craig Schlanger & Rosemary Welch, Ellen Schwartz, Vince Sgambati, Sharye Skinner, Syracuse Antiques Exchange, Ann Tiffany & Ed Kinane, Mary Traynor, Ron VanNorstrand, and Amy Zamkoff – In Memory of Rae Kramer

SPECIAL BENEFACTORS
Bousquet Holstein PLLC, The Dorothy & Marshall M. Reisman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, WRVO, Anonymous, Caroline Cargo, Therese A. Deegan, Donald Blair & Nancy Dock, Edgewood Gallery, Sandra Hurd & Joel Potash, Ann Jamison, Mary Kuhn & Dave Thomas, Anthony Malavenda & Martine Burat, Nancy & Bruce McCoy, Rick Olanoff & Susan Wadley, Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead, Mary Stanley, Carolyn Stark & John Przepiora, and Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar