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Prompt
​September 10–26, 2021
Reception: Friday, September 10, 5:30–7:30pm
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​ of show

With Simon Asterion • Anna Basalaev-Binder • Michael Bone • Rob Davidson • Sharon DeMeyer • Pam Giuliano • Alex Hilsee • Kandis Horton • Mathew Houghton • Haley Hughes • Muir Hughes • Trevor Lalaguna • Dylan Latimer • Erin Lizardo • Kathleen McPartland • Cathleen Micheaels • Julia Murphy • Patty Moriarty • Seth Moriarty • Maria Navarro + Eric Richter • Sienna Orlando-Lalaguna • Michelle Ott • Carla Resnick • Valerie Rose • Cynthia Schildhauer + Linda Serrato • Marta Shaffer • Beth Spencer • Heather Springer • David Sutherland (Dragon Boy) • Jacob  Troester • Erin Wade • Susan Wooldridge

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​Over his lifetime, artist Peter Jodaitis (1936-2017) gathered thousands of postcards from museums, art shows, and travels. He amassed a collection featuring a wide range of works—abstract to realistic, exotic to banal. He was, as his widow Ellen Walker describes, “an image junkie.” Walker generously donated hundreds of these cards to 1078 Gallery, which this summer invited some thirty artists and writers to enter the world of Jodaitis’ long relationship with a portable epistolary form—the postcard—to be used as a prompt. 

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The invitees were provided five randomly chosen postcards from the collection and asked to create something written and image-based for this show—an imagined correspondence; responses to color, shape, or figure; invented characters; a memory, a history, an ideology, an obsession. The writing could be integrated or separate from the artwork were it flash fiction, flash non-fiction, poetry, or a hybrid form. We hope you enjoy the results.

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