BALTIMORE, MD.- RandallScottProjects announce their new exhibitions by New York based text artist, Meg Hitchcock and Baltimore based painter Tim Horjus on view through February 7th.

In Meg Hitchcock's text drawings she examines and dissects the word of God and other books held sacred. Hitchcock deconstructs a sacred text by removing its individual letters and reassembling them to form a passage from another holy book, often in a design that illustrates that passage or idea. The Koran is transformed into a proverb from the Bible, the Bible into a verse from the Bhagavad Gita, and so on. She discourages a literal reading of the text by eliminating punctuation and spacing; a sentence from one text sometimes merges with a passage from another. By bringing together the sacred writings of diverse religions, she undermines their authority and speaks to the common thread that weaves through all scripture.

The labor-intensive aspect of her work is a spiritual practice, as well as an exploration of the various forms of devotion. Each individual letter is carefully chosen and removed one at a time, and then placed within the artwork. A long history in Evangelical Christianity formed her core beliefs about God and transcendence, but she later relinquished the Christian path. Hitchcock now gravitates toward Eastern Mysticism, and is deeply moved by Islam. Her work is a celebration of the diverse experiences of spirituality and the universal need for connection with something greater than oneself. In the end, the holy word of God may be nothing more than the sublime expression of our shared humanity.

Meg Hitchcock lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and studied classical painting in Florence, Italy. Her work with sacred texts is a culmination of her lifelong interest in religion, literature, and psychology. She has shown her work in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Berlin, and Australia. Hitchcock's work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtCritical, The New Criterion, Huffington Post and The Daily Beast. Her work will be featured in Bibliothecaphilia, a group exhibition opening in January at Mass MOCA in Boston.

Meg Hitchcock
Gitmo: The Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, 2014
Letters Cut from the Koran and The Bible
In the backroom, Baltimore based painter Tim Horjus presents a series of new paintings that evoke a current social and cultural space by utilizing the language of modernism in conjunction with traditional references to discuss our reliance on digitally produced and transmitted information.

Through this flirtatious collision, the balance between maintaining our humanness and succumbing to the random deluge of technology, or the contemporizing of language as the classical seeks to deal with the changes necessitated by technology is recognized.