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poems for a postmistress at Hannah Sloan Curatorial & Advisory
Shana Nys Dambrot, November 19, 2025
George Herms and Michael Deyermond: poems for a postmistress opens Saturday, November 22, 2-5pm at Hannah Sloan Curatorial & Advisory. Two text-loving interdisciplinary artists are paired across generations through their devotion to the written word as a studio material—Herms with his Beat-era assemblages of stamped envelopes, hand-typed scraps, rubber-pressed aphorisms, and the weathered paper of a life among poets; Deyermond with his hand-painted panels, eccentric and emotionally charged linocut observations, and plea-like confessions addressed to an imagined reader. Herms turns rust, stationery, and stray signage into compact, luminous objects of linguistic fragments and rhythms; Deyermond builds rough, declarative pieces where text is voice, stance, and vulnerability made visible. The exhibition brings their two vocabularies of collage, correspondence, and cardboard toward a shared insistence that words, once made physical, carry weight, a duty of care, and the palimpsestic marks of their travels. On view through January 10 in Mid-city; hannahsloan.com
