Hal Rammel
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Hal Rammel has been involved in the visual arts and music for the past 40 years. His work as a visual artist includes drawing, sculpture, collage, cartooning, photography, and the design and construction of unique musical instruments. In the 1970s he self-published two chapbooks of drawings (12 Drawings in 1977 and Three Drawings in 1978) and exhibited this work as part of the "100th Anniversary of Hysteria" exhibition in 1978. He had his first solo show at the Platypus Gallery in Evanston, Illinois in 1983. Black Swan Press published his two Aero comic books (Aero into the Aether in 1981 and Song of an Aeropteryx in 1983). Hal Rammel's photographic work (encompassing pinhole and alternative cameraless processes) has been shown at the Wustum Museum of Fine Art (Racine, WI), 1926 Exhibition Studies Space (Chicago), Woodland Pattern Book Center (Milwaukee, WI) and, most recently, Audible Gallery in Chicago. His photographs have been reproduced on the covers of compact discs released by Hat Art (Zurich), Penumbra Music (Grafton, WI), and Long Arms (Moscow). As a composer and improviser Hal Rammel utilizes instruments of his own design and construction and has released solo and ensemble recordings on Penumbra Music, Crouton Music, and Atavistic. 12 Drawings took as its epipgraph this line from William Blake: "Let a Man who has made a drawing go on & on & he will produce a Picture or Painting, but if he chooses to leave it before he has spoil'd it, he will do a Better Thing." |