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Meg Hitchcock: New Text Work and Tim Horjus: New Paintings

Meg Hitchcock: New Text Work and Tim Horjus: New Paintings

In Meg Hitchcock's text drawings she examines and dissects the word of God. Hitchcock deconstructs a sacred text by cutting its individual letters, and reassemble them to form a passage from another holy book. The Koran is transformed into the Bible, the Bible into the Bhagavad Gita, and so on. She discourages a literal reading of the text by eliminating punctuation and spacing; a sentence from one text sometimes merges with a passage from another. By bringing together the sacred writings of diverse religions, she undermines their authority and speaks to the common thread that weaves through all scripture.

The labor-intensive aspect of her work is a spiritual practice, as well as an exploration of the various forms of devotion. A long history in Evangelical Christianity formed her core beliefs about God and transcendence, but she later relinquished the Christian path. Hitchcock now gravitates toward Eastern Mysticism, and is deeply moved by Islam. Her work is a celebration of the diverse experiences of spirituality and the universal need for connection with something greater than oneself. In the end, the holy word of God may be nothing more than the sublime expression of our shared humanity.

Meg Hitchcock lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and studied classical painting in Florence, Italy. Her work with sacred texts is a culmination of her lifelong interest in religion, literature, and psychology. She has shown her work in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Berlin, and Australia. Hitchcock's work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtCritical, The New Criterion, Huffington Post and The Daily Beast. Her work will be featured in Bibliothecaphilia, a group exhibition opening in January at Mass MOCA in Boston.

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Randall Scott Projects
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Repeats every 4 weeks Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday -- until Saturday February 7, 2015.
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