Artists working with text and language are invited to submit work for publication in an anthology that examines the power of text, challenges to free expression and censorship.
Participants will look at how
artists work with text, choose their favourite pieces of poetry of prose, and try to combine them with images to create an artwork.
Not exact matches
Students are then guided to explore a discussion question relating to how
artists use
text in their
work with a list of suggested sources.
Spanning the nineteenth century to the present, this selected history of influential black American
artists introduces their careers and
work with detailed sidebars, stunning graphics, and a compelling
text.
Each volume takes me longer to read than most because of the
text and panel heavy pages, which I quite like in a series that uses all that space to fill up
with amusing character interaction, manga serialization education and a lot of artistic trials that will speak to any
artist one way or another, especially when
working to appeal to the masses at large.
These
works, along
with the
artist's
text based sculptural
works have a cinematic affect inside gallery walls.
With various colour reproductions of paintings /
works and reference material, foldout - pages,
texts and interviews by the
artist in English and German.
Working with text and books, many
artists seek to subvert historical paradigms of narrative control and dissemination of knowledge.
Key
works by Jean Michel - Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Cecily Brown, Marlene Dumas, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Reinhard Mucha, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, and younger
artists such as Josh Kline, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Michail Pirgelis and Lior Shvil, are exhibited along
with text from the
artists.
In a sprawling and somehow still tight and cogent show that included David Zwirner's 20th - street space and billboards across the city, the gallery's first co-representing the peerless conceptual
artist's estate
with his longtime dealer Andrea Rosen, nine installations covered his major series, including his
text portraits, candy
works, paper stacks, and more.
with foreword by Tom Armstrong) Eight
Artists from Los Angeles, Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco, USA (curated by Phil Linhares, brochure
with text by Phil Linhares) Drawings and
Works on Paper, Dootson Calderhead Gallery, Seattle, USA
Ranging from
text to installation, painting, sculpture, performance and sound, the selection presents some of Lisson's leading
artists, of both the past and present — beginning
with monumental
works such as one of Dan Graham's large - scale glass - and - steel pavilions, entitled Two Vs Entrance - Way (2016), which reflects and refracts visitors and its Brutalist architectural surroundings.
The book, which places strong emphasis on the written word, contains newly commissioned
texts by Robert Storr and Miwon Kwon, an introduction by Susan Cahill and an extended conversation
with fellow
artist Tim Rollins, as well as significant critical essays, exhibition statements, transcripts from lectures, personal correspondence, and writings that influenced Gonzalez - Torres and his
work.
In 2007 - 08, he acted as the curator and organiser of an exhibition celebrating painting at Chelsea, called `... Same As It Ever Was» which contained the
work of some fifty
artists, occupied three galleries and was accompanied by a catalogue
with texts by Matthew Collings, David Ryan and Clyde Hopkins.
She has edited several titles including the recently released Dorothy Iannone; You Who Read Me
With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends, along with It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, Torture of Women by Nancy Spero, and The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard (co-edited with Ron Padgett), among oth
With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends, along
with It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, Torture of Women by Nancy Spero, and The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard (co-edited with Ron Padgett), among oth
with It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image +
Text Work by Women
Artists & Writers, Torture of Women by Nancy Spero, and The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard (co-edited
with Ron Padgett), among oth
with Ron Padgett), among others.
Jen Bervin (Brooklyn, NY) is a visual
artist and writer whose
works combine
text and textiles
with conceptual elements and a minimalist's eye for the poetic and essential.
Wall
text begins
with each
artist's past
work, leaving one unsure just what it is describing.
Provide [s] an overview of the
artist's four - decade career
with selections from his Black Flag flyers, Xeroxed zines, high - contrast drawings and other paper - based
works... A marriage of rough visuals and
text.
A range of
texts about Riley's original and enduring practice grounds and contextualizes the images, including new scholarship by art historian Richard Shiff,
texts on both the
artist's wall paintings and newest body of
work by Paul Moorhouse, Twentieth - Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and a 1978 interview
with Robert Kudielka, her longtime confidant and foremost critic.
In Mungo Thomson's solo exhibition at Kadist Art Foundation, Wall, Window, or Bar Signs, the gallery is filled
with neon
works that appropriate the form of Bruce Nauman's spiraling neon
text piece, The True
Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign) from 1967.
I was able to meet
with the Director of VAN HORN, Daniela Steinfeld, during her brief stay in Chicago the week before last — below is a redacted
text of our conversation; on her transition from being a gallery
artist to a commercial gallerist, the differences between American vs. European attitudes on market and gender, and the rare, but special chance of encountering unknown, or yet undiscovered
work.
Thomas Chimes: Complete Circle, 2001
Text by David Cohen 54 pages, Softcover Published by Locks Art Publications ISBN: 1 -879173-49-2 Complete Circle presents the early and later
work of noted
artist Thomas Chimes: a series of metal box constructions from 1965 - 1973 paired
with related new paintings.
London based
artist Edith Marie Pasquier
works with moving image, photography, sound and
text installations.
Mana Contemporary's Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA) and Umm el — Fahem Gallery are pleased to present a private viewing of Textile — Territory —
Text, a group exhibition that examines concepts of identity, belonging, abjection, and exile in contemporary textile art
works by Middle Eastern
artists,
with a special one - night only performance.
2014 Rothko to Richter: Mark - Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ It's What You Do
With What You View»: Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Art =
Text = Art:
Works by Contemporary
Artists, UB Anderson Gallery, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
«Sacrifice for the Fleet,» now at L.A. Louver, hosts a series of new and recent
works born from the
artist's fascination
with Greek literature, Biblical
texts, and Armenian manuscripts (he is the son of Armenian refugees).
Guyton's
works on paper are printed over pages removed from art catalogues,
with the
artist's additions obscuring or revealing the original images and
text.
Artists currently represented
work with performance, sound, internet, dance, film, installation and
text, as well as painting and sculpture.
In 1978 she began to
work with photographs and
texts; initially, words and images were kept separate, but the
artist gradually began superimposing the words over the found images in order to examine, by appropriation, the language and stereotypes that represent various power structures.
A range of
texts about Riley's original and enduring practice grounds and contextualizes the images, including new scholarship by art historian Richard Shiff,
texts on both the
artist's wall paintings and newest body of
work by Paul Moorhouse, 20th Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and a 1978 interview
with Robert Kudielka, her longtime confidant and foremost critic.
A recent large - scale clay diptych, photography and
text works were installed between the pillars of the hall, which — alongside a publication specially produced
with the
artist for the occasion — showed
works from every decade of Long's prolific career from the 1960s to the present day.
Collage, documentary photography, poetic
text, painting, needlepoint, crochet, textile
work and animation are all methods enlisted by these
artists to create
works that deal
with various social issues.
Drawings,
artist notebooks, paintings, engravings, photographs, video - installations, and full - length video
works are respectfully laid out in roughly chronological order, and a bilingual (English / Spanish) catalog lovingly assembled by curator Valerie Smith rounds out the succinct wall
text that introduces Downey's obsession
with invisible forces, giving context to each section of
works.
Exhibitions include: a group exhibition curated by
artist Nayland Blake that investigates queer identification through new communications technologies; the first comprehensive career survey and solo museum exhibition dedicated to Cary Leibowitz, whose bold
text - based
works address issues of identity, sexuality, and queer politics; and a focused exhibition on broadcast and video
work, organized in partnership
with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), that focuses on how
artists have engaged
with the legacy of broadcast media.
Additionally, the biennial has commissioned an expansive project by
artist Barbara Kruger, whose signature red, black, and white activist
text works will cover a skate park, school bus, and public billboard,
with more activated sites and performances announced as the event gets under way.
Impossible to dismiss, Andre's experiments
with word and
text deserve collation and careful attention, not only because they cast significant light on his
work in three - dimensions, but also because they supply a fascinating insight into his sensibility as an
artist.
The book also includes significant new
texts from curator Katy Siegel and art historian Sarah Lewis, as well as a revealing interview
with Bradford, offering a new understanding of the
work of one of today's most influential contemporary
artists.
Raymond Pettibon (b. 1957, Tucson, AZ) A cult figure among underground music devotees for his early
work associated
with the Los Angeles punk rock scene, Pettibon has acquired an international reputation as one of the foremost contemporary American
artists working with drawing,
text, and
artist's books.
Brandon LaBelle is a Berlin - based
artist, writer, and theorist who
works with sound, performance,
text, and sited constructions.
His book, Harvey Dinnerstein:
Artist at Work, with text by the artist, was published by Watson - Guptill in
Artist at
Work,
with text by the
artist, was published by Watson - Guptill in
artist, was published by Watson - Guptill in 1978.
Kade L. Twist is an interdisciplinary
artist working with video, sound, interactive media,
text, and installation environments.
Art historian Johanna Burton contributes a substantial essay that analyzes and elucidates all aspects of Minter's
work; her
text is complemented by a lengthy conversation between Minter and her friend, painter Mary Heilmann, as well as by «Twenty Questions,» a project assembled by Matthew Higgs to which a wide range of
artists, curators, friends and others
with a unique connection to Minter have contributed.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents «We Are Grammar,» a large - scale exhibition of 2D, sculptural, installation, and video
works by over 40 contemporary
artists who have been
working with text from the past decade.
The product of extensive new research and several dozen studio visits
with artists around the world, Nickas's
text brings out the key details and distinctions in their
work, creating a vivid picture of a field awash in creative innovation.
Featuring painting, sculpture, and
works on paper from the Smart Museum's permanent collection as well as select loans, The Painted
Text juxtaposed images from the 16th to 19th centuries
with their literary sources in order to investigate how
artists interpreted and transformed the stories that inspired them.
For But not yet: in the spirit of linguistics, his 2015 solo show at moniquemeloche, the
artist combined
text and signifiers
with graphite and paper to create deliberately
worked diagrammatic drawings that were austere and poetic.
Collecting his
work inside coarsely built wooden boxes
with texts and images of the Kristigarbha, the coffins seem to be the inevitable conclusion of the
artist perceiving his footsteps — from modernist experimentations, to voicing against political situations or the self - reflection and struggle
with his own ethics — in a historical context, and organizing a funeral for his
works.»
The
works of Tony Lewis, an African - American
artist based out of Chicago, revolve around
text,
with a connection to other language - oriented
artists such as Ligon, Kruger, and Holzer.
L.A. - based
artist Charles Gaines
works with various mediums, including photography, drawing,
text, and video, relying on existing and invented systems to generate his
works.
With several pages dedicated to images of each
artist's
work and a deeply analytical parallel
text, Vitamin D is at once a detailed reference book for art world aficianados and an absorbing introduction for newcomers to the scene.