Randy Twaddle
Moody Gallery
Through February 8

BY KELLY KLAASMEYER

Houston Press
January 23, 2003

Randy Twaddle's charcoal drawings depict curled slips of paper like those found inside fortune cookies. But the artist's messages don't predict long life, journeys or happiness; their wisdom comes from common phrases, subversively rearranged. The list began when Twaddle wrote "The Vandellas and Martha" in a sketchbook. He's recently added the works Determined and Bound, Destroy and Search and The Beanstalk and Jack. Twaddle's deft wordplay turns our expectations, and well-known phrases, on their heads.

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