Text Based Art

A start: Defining text art through all its histories and all its types across cultures, continents, and times. Or: Notwithstanding most art history accounts, text art history was not invented out of thin air in New York in the 1960s nor even in Europe a century before. …

Overview: Online Sources For The History Of Text-Based Art This brief article is a survey of what you’ll find online with respect to the history and origins of text-based art if you search for “text-based art” or “history of text based art” or similar. …

This short article briefly drops a marker as to several potentially new theories that are emerging from my text-based conceptual art and my self-study of its origins within broader art histories. The markers for future research and experimentation are: Are the earliest known cave paintings the original form of text…

Look At What We Have Created — With its unambiguous aesthetic that sets forth an observation that is fully ambiguous as among not just two but many potential meanings, Look At What We Have Created, at first glance, may suggest societal struggles and polarizations, or other events of the present…

Poema Colectivo 2020 Poema Colectivo 2020 | post In the spirit of collectivity despite geographical distance, post invites your contributions to create a "collective…post.moma.org In the spirit of collectivity despite geographical distance, post invited for contributions to create a “collective poem” for our moment based on the 1981 project Poema Colectivo Revolución by the artists’ group Colectivo 3. The Mexico City-based group sent sheets of paper with blank space to members of an international mail art network, inviting responses to the theme of revolution. In 1981, the results were mailed back to Colectivo 3 from forty-five countries.

A poster campaign for the 2021 Infecting the City festival in Cape Town. — For the 2021 iteration of the annual Infecting the City public art festival (which was renamed Un-Infecting the City for obvious reasons), I produced a series of text-based posters which were wheatpasted in and around the Cape Town CBD as well as outside of significant performing arts spaces such as the Artscape Theatre and the Baxter Theatre.

I Am Unholy Mary — a new oversized oil text painting by the conceptual artist Adam Daley Wilson, now exhibiting in Chicago at Aspect/Ratio Projects Gallery, is a story of identity. In this forgotten narrative, the Christ child — not he or she but All, not one gender or race…

Hi I pretty much always know what someone is going to say before they actually say it. Sometimes I think I know what they’re going to say even before they know it themselves. I know what people want. And it is almost always to be acknowledged. Try spending an entire day smiling at everyone whose eye you can catch and also saying hi. I guarantee you’ll end the day joyful. Kay Rosen makes art from language, often with a hyper intelligent play on words. For me they are sometimes a puzzle that I can answer without thinking and other times I have to ask someone else before I can get it. They always reveal what she has to say. #artwisdom