Wordplay is an art. Sometimes it takes the form of puns on Twitter or weaves its way into standup jokes. Other times, the words themselves become ecstatic visual experiences. Artist Mike Perry, who created the title animations for the hit TV show Broad City, knows about the power and playfulness that words carry.
Fittingly, Perry’s first solo show of paintings, curated by Cassandra Johnson, is called Intoxicating Pollen Wiggle in a Moist Journey of Constantly Blooming Tides, which opened on April 22 at Garis & Hahn in New York City. Like his animations for Broad City, Perry’s visual aesthetic meshes a happy-go-lucky, retro-pop sensibility with a catchiness that will catch you, but never throw you off.
“I really like words,” Perry told the Daily Dot. “I definitely have a hard time with words, and I have a little bit of dyslexia. In order to really look at words and know how they work, I have to pay attention to them, like the way the word ‘flower’ is spelled.”
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