Exhibitions

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KENNETH BEAUDOIN: IN THE HANDS OF A POETTops Gallery / 400 S Front St. December 13, 2024 - February 15, 2025

Tops Gallery is pleased to present In the Hands of a Poet an exhibition of Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin’s Eye-Poems. In the 1940’s the poet Kenneth Beaudoin (1913-1995) was living in Manhattan where he operated Galerie Neuf and was publishing a literary and art magazine called Iconograph. At some point in the 1940’s his own poetry began to break from traditional lyricism to a more experimental form of collaged works that he termed Eye-Poems. In these works, words and images were c...