New Asemics by Kerri Pullo

Asemic visual poetry by Kerri Pullo
 (Tucson, Arizona, USA) (October 2018)

 

 

Kerri Pullo is an asemic writer and artist  whose work is of such interest and so innovative that I've felt it has been essential to follow her development in order to document the growing movement. Thus those who are kind and repeat visitors to Asemic Front as well as MinXus-Lynxus are likely to be familiar with Kerri Pullo's asemics. Numerous entries have been devoted to her.

 

She is also well-known in the international asemic and vispo communities. I would hazard to guess that she would make the Top Ten list of the best asemic artists working today were someone to do a survey (but that's not anything I really want to encourage).

 

So I am thrilled to share a selection of new work by Kerri Pullo, much of it within the last month. Her asemic writing, rooted in a distinctive calligraphic style, has become more complex and - I believe - more akin to the great achievements of abstract expressionism. Kerri Pullo has always been capable of taking me to expressive worlds via the route opened by Pollock and Twombly, but she is also the product of many other influences as well that will resonate with her audience in other ways.

 

Much of Kerri Pullo's earlier work focuses on individual symbol generation, glyphs, and linearity (horizontal and vertical). In this new work, I see an interest in the creation of larger organic structures to contain the symbols. These works diverge from the linear as they are circular and woven. These pieces definitely can be read as asemic poetry and have a lyric sensibility. The movement - evident in the work of numerous artists - toward the creation of asemic structures is an exciting new development. As ever, Kerri Pullo leads the way.

 

- DVS

 

 

 

By Kerri Pullo (October 2018)

 

 

 

 

 

By Kerri Pullo (October 2018)

 

 

Among her new pieces, I greatly admire these reversed-out asemics that reflect her new interest in form but also the minimalism with which she has been so successful in the past; however, I realize the term "minimalism" has limitations when applied to Kerri Pullo's recent work. Again, the structural achievement here is notable built on her total mastery of calligraphy.

 

 

 

 

 By Kerri Pullo (October 2018)

 

 

 

 

 

 By Kerri Pullo (October 2018)

 

 

 

 

 

By Kerri Pullo (October 2018)

 

 

 

 

By Kerri Pullo (October 2018)