Guy-Vincent is an artist who redefines the word interdisciplinary. Always on the edge of experimental frontiers, his work manages to balance new explorations while retaining strong roots in the traditions of art and cultural histories. Established mediums like painting, drawing and photography mix with materials like steel, plastic, and in recent years, primarily the digital realm. Always fascinated with ‘mark-making’, the primal modes of expression going back over 40,000 years, Guy-Vincent is pioneering new texts and images of communication. Digital technologies and platforms have provided opportunities to develop a visual language referencing cross-cultural linguistic traditions in social media like Twitter. He is considered the Godfather of ‘Symbol Art” the use of Twitter Unicode symbols configured in sequences and patterns that feel familiar, yet defy definition. In the contemporary art world, terms like “deconstruction” and “re-contextualization” are tossed about with abandon, yet in this case their meaning is significant and applies in the truest sense. Symbols, letters, numbers, patterns that are recognizable, but purposefully elude understanding, Guy-Vincent turns symbol driven communication on it’s head. Indirectly referencing Sumi ink calligraphy, Arabic scrolls, television test patterns, bar-codes, runic writing, hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and an endless array of historical and contemporary visual information, all are disassembled and reconfigured into new indecipherable shapes to suit an aesthetic purpose. It becomes a consideration not of specific human achievement, culture, or language, not the content of what is written, but instead a deeper examination of the fundamental human ability to communicate. George Kozmon / Artist, Curator