CHUCK WEBSTER
new print by
@chuckwebster
“Sing It Out”, 2026
lithograph on gampi paper
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view new print at the upcoming
@ifpda Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory. print available at Jungle Press Editions
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For his newest project at Jungle Press, Chuck Webster’s dynamic composition features circular motifs with bands of blue emanating from the center. The expanding rays are punctuated by spheres of bold color: oranges, reds, yellows, blues: a full spectrum with varying sizes of circles. Looking closer, we see multiple ellipses of text emerge. The text, or rather lyrics, begin with a line from Gang Starr’s “Check the Technique’.
Webster describes the varying elements as encompassing, “the slipperiness and range of language and music that can happen, and how it changes between the words, the music, and what memories it elucidates. I wanted to use the reference of a galaxy to explore notions of scale between balloons and planets, and how music can change your reference to the space around you both emotionally and physically. The circles can be planets, buttons, thoughts, noses, and any other iteration. There is also the idea of the music coming right at you, and also coming out of your own head.”
In essence, the print is a celebration of word as image, where one is consistently experiencing an alternating pull between the visual and the verbal. The use of hand-written text enlists the viewer to delve into the visual qualities: color, line, and shape are equally important elements in experiencing the work. One is reminded of Cy Twombly’s fascination with the “threshold of legibility”, where text reverts to line and tone, and then back to words. In Webster’s print, the circles of hand-drawn text seem to spin like the record on a turntable. The more one looks into the circles, one can hear the pulse of the music.
-Andrew Mockler
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