Asemic Visual Poetry by Alicia Starr Ryan

Asemic vispo by Alicia Starr Ryan (Maplewood, New Jersey, USA)

This is Alicia Starr Ryan's first appearance on Asemic Front 2. As the work you see here testifies, she is a talented artist; her image-text pieces are rooted in an aesthetic, even painterly, visual arts tradition as compared to those who enter the genres explored on AF2 through text: specifically, writers who have become visual poets. 

This work has, for me at least, a retro quality - not at all unusual in contemporary vispo - that invokes DaDa collage and specifically Kurt Schwitters. Having the context of a historical continuum is by no means a liability and often, in fact, is useful.

That said, Alicia Starr Ryan has been active in the Eternal Network for the last decade (or at least that is how long I've known her work). Many AF2 readers in the network are, no doubt, familiar with Alicia's art already. 

She has been involved in exchanges and projects with visual poets including Eduardo Cardoso, Bruno Neiva, Diane Keys, Cheryl Penn, Kerri Pullo, Nancy Bell Scott, TicTac and others who have become influential and recognized in contemporary image-text via the network. 

In fact, Alicia Starr Ryan deserves credit along with those already named for shaping contemporary asemics and vispo.

- De Villo Sloan

By Alicia Starr Ryan

By Alicia Starr Ryan

By Alicia Starr

By Alicia Starr Ryan