Exegesis Eisegesis Encaustic is a collaborative series of encaustic diptychs
depicting signs in and around Los Angeles. The painter Katie Herzog teamed up with
the poet Andrew Choate to paint representations of the original signs, and refracted
versions of the signs with all-new text written by Choate.

This book collects all twenty-two of the diptychs as well as installation views of the
original exhibition alongside several essays that approach the collaboration from
different angles: Kenneth Lapatin (J. Paul Getty Museum) discusses the work in the
context of the history of encaustic; Carol Cheh (Another Righteous Transfer!) speaks
towards Los Angeles signage and public symbolism in relation to pop culture; Blanca
Pujals (BxNU Institute) provides a bi-lingual consideration of the works spatial
intersection with the structural world; Mace Ojala (Information Science Triwizard)
examines functional illiteracy as cultural critique.
(Essays translated in Greek, Pictoral, Spanish, and Finnish, respectively).

Exegesis Eisegesis Encaustic texturally mirrors and refracts Herzog and Choate’s
arrangements, collapsing the distinction between art show and artist catalogue; the
book becomes an extended component of the series.

~ 90 pages
~ Measure: 8" x 10"(Landscape)
~ Edition: 100