The accompanying
wall texts explore the underlying concepts for each piece and examine how intuition and imagination are central to the designer's process.
Not exact matches
Bringing together a selection of recent cut - out paper figures, mixed media works on paper, collage paintings in beehive frames, a large - scale painted sailcloth and hand - painted
texts on the gallery
wall, the exhibition will showcase Anna Boghiguian's raw and expressionistic oeuvre that
explores economics, philosophy, literature and myth.
Exploring the conventions and rhetoric of the images in the mass media, operating both on the gallery
wall and the printed page in poster, book and magazine form, Burgin revels in straddling the boundaries between «visual art» and «theory», «image» and «narrative», in a way that makes reader and
text interact, work together and create constant and engaged dialogue.
Other artists in the exhibition
explore artmaking and its inextricably ties to daily life, as in Michelle Grabner's paper weavings, or Tony Lewis» site specific
wall text — made specifically for this exhibition — based on selections from the classic Life's Little Instruction Book, a compendium of advice.
Those
exploring the exhibition encountered
text on the perils of excessive sitting placed next to a giant red ball, a «Happy Birthday» banner hung above un-inflated balloons seemingly frozen in time and space, a
wall covered in overlapping yellow Post-It notes reading «Don't Cry,» and a swarm of copper - colored computer mice huddled on the floor.
No other gallery
explored American conceptualism in the late 60s and early 70s like the Lisson, with shows by Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre and Lawrence Weiner (represented here with one of his massive
wall texts, winding right up three floors of stairwell: Whole Cloth Stretched to the Limit, it says, as if describing itself).
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Camnitzer developed a body of work that
explored language as primary medium, shifting from printing
text on paper or
walls, such as his Dictionary etchings and the room - size installation, Living Room (both 1969).
The exhibition is severely overhung, with only a handful of works installed off the
wall, and features seventy - five works that, according to the
wall text, highlight a «new generation of women artists who are
exploring many levels of sexuality through layers of identity and using the internet as a tool for sexual empowerment.»
Repurposing commercially produced
wall and travel maps, Durant has also produced a series of altered and collaged pieces, layered with cut and stenciled political
texts and quotations, that
explore historical issues of imperialism and the ways in which they connect to present day geo - political conditions.
Other artists
explore the combination of
text and image, including Matthew Brannon and Frances Stark, while Karl Holmqvist is represented by a
wall of xeroxed poems and images from his Oneloveworld book.