Join the Paseo Plunge Gallery during the First Friday Paseo Gallery Walk for the opening of “Overtype: new typewriter art by Chad Reynolds.” Reynolds’ work explores the aesthetic possibilities of language via its symbols and marks. Taken out of this communicative, utilitarian context, a language’s letters, numbers, signs, and marks have graphic qualities that can serve as building blocks for visual art. Working with manual typewriters and ribbons with various ink colors to create works on paper, fabric, and canvas, Reynolds uses patterns, repetition, and overlays to call forth organic shapes, landscapes, and explorations of letter form, supplementing or replacing old meanings with new ones.

“Overtype” is a mixed media show, combining and compiling typed patterns over tea-based watercolor marks; pages torn from books; White-Out; collages of remnants of older pieces. "Overtype" continues through the Paseo Arts Festival, until June 1.

Reynolds is a poet and visual artist from Oklahoma City, OK. He is the co-founder of Penny Candy Books, was once an insurance broker, and an adjunct professor. He has published five chapbooks of poetry and co-founded Short Order Poems, a performance-art poetry experience that used typewriters to create poetry on demand for strangers. His typewriter art has been featured in magazines and journals in the U.S., Germany, and Denmark, and is held by private collectors on three different continents.