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EMBLEMS: SYMBOLIC PORTRAITURE IN INVITATION EXHIBITION Twenty-one local artists have been invited to participate in the Demuth Foundation's 2003 invitational exhibition, to be called Emblems, in emulation of Charles Demuth's poster portraits (or portrait posters as they are sometimes called). From 1923 through 1929, Demuth explored the possibilities in making "portraits" of the paintings or writings -- in both form and content -- of various colleagues, friends, and others, thereby honoring and immortalizing artists and writers he admired. Through the use of associative objects or images, wordplay, numbers, and references to their own work, he portrayed them symbolically, sometimes in finished paintings, sometimes only in preliminary sketches: artists Arthur Dove, Charles Duncan, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe, writers Eugene O'Neill, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, and transvestite entertainer Bert Savoy. (Sometimes a "Broadway poster," as Demuth titled it, has been identified as a porter portrait of Gertrude Stein, and sometimes an oil still life, Longhi on Broadway, has been identified as one of Eugene O'Neill. Demuth's letters to Alfred Stieglitz and others make clear that neither of these identifications has any foundation in fact.) The Foundation's exhibition, opening 31 January 2003, will focus on specific, personal relationships between one artist and another, by way of symbolic portraiture. Artists invited to participate include Ann DeLaurentis, Reed Dixon, Paula Egolf, Ron Ettelman, Bruce Fry, Susan Gottleib, Jon L. Johnson, Constantine Kermes, Robert Lyon, George Mummert, Leonard Ragouzeos, David Reinhart, Richard Ressel, Fred Rodger, Brant Schuller, Ellen Shupe, Emilie Snyder, Teri Traner, Lisa Troupe, Steve Wilson, and Dale Ziegler.
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