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<i>An exploration of text-based art curated by Norm Magnusson</i></div>
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March 5 - April 10, 2016</div>
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WFG Gallery, Woodstock, NY</div>
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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS</div>
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Robert Brush</div>
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Jacinta Bunnell</div>
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Melissa Cohen</div>
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Erika deVries</div>
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Keetra Dean Dixon</div>
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Mary Anne Erickson</div>
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Clare Finin</div>
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Isabella Giancarlo</div>
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Alex Gingrow</div>
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Dan Goldman</div>
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Jim Granger</div>
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Thomas Huber</div>
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Norm Magnusson</div>
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Paul McMahon</div>
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Franc Palaia</div>
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Molly Rausch</div>
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Carla Rozman</div>
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Sparrow</div>
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Mariya Sultan</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT IS TEXT BASED ART? </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT IS NOT TEXT BASED ART?</span></b></div>
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The complete exhibition can be seen just below this section.</div>
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<b>IN SEARCH OF SOME GUIDELINES</b></div>
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Mostly, when we engage with text, it's in the form of signage or advertising or books or magazines, or whatnot, but once in a while, it's in the form of art. Text-based art. A genre that has been around for a long time but has really taken off in the last decade or so.</div>
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S0 . . . what <u>is</u> text-based art? Is it simply art with words in it? Is it art where the text (words or numbers) is a central conceptual element or a central compositional or design element? Both? Either?</div>
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In the course of pulling together this exhibition, I was consistently confounded by trying to decide whether certain pieces of art should be categorized as text-based or not. And I kept coming back to that line from US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who famously noted (referring to pornography) that, while he couldn't define it, "he knew it when he saw it." Well, with this show, my goal quickly became "to define it." Here's a start:</div>
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<b><i>#1: The concept of the artwork needs to be conveyed (primarily or exclusively) via text, and, conversely, without the text, the piece is completely different.</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alex Gingrow "As an artist you always make work from what's around you</td></tr>
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So then, is a poem a piece of text-based art? Why not? Well, most poems, while designed to be evocative with their words, are simply not attempting to have a visual impact. So maybe that brings us to a second criteria for something to be defined as text-based art: </div>
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<b><i>#2: The art needs to be intended as a piece of visual art.</i></b></div>
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This guideline leaves out most commercial design (logos, billboards, sale notices, etc.) but includes a lot of graphic design. Which makes me happy; for far too long, graphic designers have created innovative and evocative work only to have the jealous guardians at the gate between high and low turn their noses up at gorgeous work simply because it was created for a client. Some of the best work in this arena is every bit as beautiful and thought provoking as the best work that has earned the exalted title of "art". A fine example is this piece below by graphic designer Carla Rozman:</div>
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Guideline #2 also begs the question whether there needs to be an aesthetic element -- an intention on the part of the artist to have their art look a certain way. For the cause of defining, let's err on the side of limitation and say "yes" -- whereas conceptual art may leave some or all of that to the mind of the receiver or the creator, text art does not. Which brings us to another guideline and to a fun digression.</div>
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First, the guideline:</div>
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<b><i>#3: The artist must be attempting to create a certain aesthetic effect with their text and or imagery.</i></b></div>
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Now, the fun digression:</div>
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<b>TEXT-BASED ART AND CONCEPTUAL ART</b></div>
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The Potter Stewart quotation above is more apt than first meets the eye (or mind) in this discussion, highlighting, as it does, the elevation of concept over execution. For him, it's the "knowing" in the mind of the audience (him) that ultimately defines the designation of the visuals in question. This is almost the very definition of conceptual art. From a sweet website called <a href="http://www.theartstory.org/movement-conceptual-art.htm" target="_blank">The Art Story</a>:</div>
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<i><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Conceptual art is a movement that prizes ideas over the formal or visual components of art works. </span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their chief claim - that the articulation of an artistic idea suffices as a work of art - implied that concerns such as aesthetics, expression, skill and marketability were all irrelevant standards by which art was usually judged.</span></i></div>
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Or, as one notable conceptual artist put it:</div>
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<i>"What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned." </i></div>
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-Sol LeWitt<br />
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In this statement above, I think Mr. LeWitt gives the physical appearance of the artwork a lot of importance; at least, contrasted to point #3 in Lawrence Weiner's 1968 "Declaration of intent" (below), he does. Weiner goes that one crucial step further by "allowing" the ultimate piece of conceptual art and (coincidentally, the ultimate piece of minimalist art): a thought. Just a thought. Can that be art? Here's his "Declaration":<br />
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Weiner is saying that art is in the eye of the beholder here. John Cage more or less said the same thing 16 years earlier with his 4'33", the so-called "silent" piece, in which the musician(s) actively do NOT play their instruments, allowing the audience (and the ambient noise) to create the art.<br />
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It reminds me of one of my favorite definitions of art:<br />
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<i>"Art is anything made by anybody that somebody calls art."</i><br />
-Norm Magnusson<br />
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A populist and open-ended definition of art if ever there was one. Which is ironic, since the whole thrust of this little rambling essay is to try and come up with a specific definition of what is and is not text-based art, throwing Magnusson and Stewart and Cage and Weiner's vagaries be damned.<br />
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Anyway, with only the slightest consideration of LeWitt's and Weiner's words, you can see what a short hop it is from conceptual art to text-based art. And how they certainly overlap frequently. In light of these artist's definitions of conceptual art, it's tempting to say that text-based art is frequently conceptual art made manifest, thoughts given form (like most all art that ever existed) and meaning through visual imagery including text. If "text" is the conceptual part, is "art" the aesthetic part? Very tempting to define text based art like that and just go off to get a beer and some nachos.<br />
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Take the piece below by Robert Brush, (below) for example. To Weiner's #2 point, Robert doesn't make neon signs, he doesn't bend the tubes and pump in the gas and hook up the transformer. He has them fabricated. Yet this piece is definitely his artwork, not the neon sign maker's artwork. It's a fine piece of conceptual art and for me, it is without doubt -- one hundred percent, also a fine piece of text-based art.</div>
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As a last word on the confluence of conceptual and text art, here's a blurb from the MOMA website on text-based art: </div>
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<i>Language was an important tool for <a href="https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/glossary#conceptual-art-glossary">Conceptual artists</a> in the 1960s. Many Conceptual artists used language in place of brush and canvas, and words played a primary role in their emphasis on ideas over visual <a href="https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/glossary#form">forms</a>. Though text had been used in art long before this, artists like Joseph Kosuth were among the first to give words such a central role. The way the words look plays a role in <a href="https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/glossary#conceptual-art-glossary">Conceptual art</a>, but it is language itself that has the ultimate significance.</i></div>
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Certainly some of the best examples of text art (such as Brush's neon above) have stripped away much extraneous material: unnecessary imagery and adornment. But does that mean that text art is a subset of minimalism as it is, evidently, a subset of conceptual art?</div>
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By way of illustration, take these three pieces below by Ed Ruscha. The MoMA site says that he worked as a typesetter as a young man and "began seeing 'words as pictures'." Very interesting. First up is his iconic "Standard station". For me, this is not a piece of text-based art, it's a snapshot of Americana. Western Americana? Californicana? Commerical Americana? Or all of the above. No matter, this piece seems to be more about the culture surrounding the building and its sign and less about the word/thought portrayed. </div>
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But with "oof", above, there's really no debate. Text-based art for sure. So, if the word "Hollywood" had zero other imagery, would it be text-based art? Yes. Indubitably. </div>
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It's the action that decides. Which part of the artwork is the prime mover of evocation? Is it the text or is it other compositional elements? With Ruscha's "Hollywood", the fact that it depicts an actual sign and location really seems to make it more of a landscape painting than a piece of text-based art. Same with "Standard station." Does that mean that landscape painting can't be text-based art. Not at all. </div>
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Consider this piece below by Barbara Kruger, "Untitled (your body is a battleground)". Does this seem like a portrait painting? Or a piece of text-based art? I would argue that the background here doesn't matter too much. It could have been a scene from a Civil War battle, it could have been a torso, it could have been worker bees feeding the queen. It could have gotten more abstract or more specific. The background image could have gone all kinds of different ways and the message would have been the same. (Ok, maybe slightly different in the case of the bees.) In this piece, Kruger has successfully moved beyond the constraints of traditional imagery (the face she uses, or any of the images I suggested above) and created a piece where all the real action of the painting is in the text. Or at least the bulk of it. </div>
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Same question with Paul McMahon's "Synchro-niceties" series or Isabella Giancarlo's "Eat your heart out series (both below). Does the background really matter to the concept of the piece? In both cases, while the backgrounds certainly enrich the artworks, they do not seem essential to the concept.</div>
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Above is a piece by one of my very favorite artists, David Wojnarowicz. Vis-a-vis the 3 guidelines I've identified above, this is definitely a piece of text-based art. It's even been framed! But, in reality, it seems more of an illustrated story than a piece of visual art. Read it through; it's powerful and poignant. So why doesn't it seem to be text art? Does the volume of text make a difference? If a piece has only a few words, is it text art? And if it has a lot of words, maybe it's not? Thoughts?</div>
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My last note on this intriguing question of how one defines "text art" will focus on this piece above by Magritte. For me, it's a perfect piece of text-based art: the concept is in the text (#1), without doubt it was intended as a piece of visual art (#2), and the artist was after a certain aesthetic effect with both word and visual (#3). But there is one other thing that this piece does, over and above those 3 guidelines: it creates a lovely intellectual and emotional break between what we think we know to be true and what it is telling us is true, or not true. Which brings us to the fourth (and for now, final) guideline:</div>
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<i><b>#4: The text must take you somewhere. It must be evocative. The mere presence of text is not enough.</b></i></div>
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A swell guideline capping off an interesting set of guidelines to help us decide if something is text-based art or not. But how, truly, can you define #4? It "takes you somewhere"? It's "evocative"? Seriously, who can define what causes such visceral emotional effects? Who can predict what movie will move you or which song will get you to tap your feet? And who, ultimately, can really define, for example, what counts as "pornography"? You can't. You just can't. But with enough careful consideration and failed attempts to do so, what you CAN do is get very good at knowing it when you see it.</div>
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for more discussion of text art, there's a fine little essay on the Art Encylopedia: <a href="http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/definitions/word-art.htm" target="_blank">http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/definitions/word-art.htm</a></div>
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Some truly amazing and moving art by local and national artists.</div>
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Unless otherwise noted, all of the art shown (or facsimiles thereof) will be in the exhibition "abc@WFG".</div>
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and aesthetically, this is a home run of text-based art for me. By subverting a
well known sign of the times, it raises questions ranging from economic
enfranchisement to theological salesmanship and many other points in between.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>Ho<span class="unicode">ʻ</span>oponopono</b> (ho-o-pono-pono) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Hawaii" title="Ancient Hawaii">ancient Hawaiian</a> practice of <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reconciliation" title="wikt:reconciliation">reconciliation</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgiveness" title="Forgiveness">forgiveness</a>. Similar forgiveness practices were performed on islands throughout the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania" title="Oceania">South Pacific</a>, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>. Traditionally ho<span class="unicode">ʻ</span>oponopono is practiced by healing priests or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahuna" title="Kahuna">kahuna</a> lapa<span class="unicode">ʻ</span>au among family members of a person who is physically ill. Modern versions are performed within the family by a family elder, or by the individual alone.</i></span></div>
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inhabit, beginning with girlhood, womanhood, and now motherhood are my life
process and reflect in my artwork. As I age I become increasingly aware of
presence and absence and my eye and heart are acutely attuned to these
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> Transformations, large and small, occupy my daily visual thoughts
and visceral feelings. They happen rapidly and seemingly moment to moment when
living with young children. New words and their meanings, new movements,
skills, and experiences are part of the every day parade; I am staggered by
each moment’s fullness then disappearance. I re-learn the power of words as my
children learn their power and literacy for the first time. These domestic,
daily transformations highlight control, power relationships, and the things we
have no control over in our lives, such as loose teeth, physical growth, and
change. Art making and life living are my combined practice with a commitment
to growth, change, and sharing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I create works across disciplines out of a voraciousness and desire for
a whole experience. I have worked with internet-based projects, photography,
performance, video, craft handiwork, radio, lenticular imaging, and sound.
Connecting these processes meaningfully, sensually and visually models the
personal connections and relationships I wish to make through the work and life
living.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Curator:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> This piece is
a great example of text-based art for me and a lovely piece of art, period.
Erika mentions “transformations, large and small” and this piece <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>certainly illustrates one: the
presence/absence of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the feelings
of being in ecstasy and being ashamed. The words representing them are here one
moment and then gone the next, the window to the world beyond blocked (for good
or bad) by them, then open without them. The text creates a deeply evocative
piece that, without the text, would just be a pretty snapshot out the window.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of impulse and decision: "Yes! I want to do that; No! I don't have the
time. Yes! I want to go home with you; No! You're married." Often, I find
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This piece is an interesting straddling of the sometimes fine line between
design and art. Carla is a graphic designer and a fine artist and this piece
has the distinct feeling of design but also the evocative presence of art. For
me, as the viewer, it evokes my (as I grow older) absolute certainty that I
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<b><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">Melissa:</span></b><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;"> This drawing is part of an ongoing exploration of how words and meanings change within the context of their expression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and public space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This piece
comments on the manufacture of public greeting verbology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<o:p><b>Curator: </b>Both of these artworks by Cohen are lovely examples of what I consider classic text-based art: aesthetic and background elements add to the meaning of these pieces and yet, without the words, they’re nothing. </o:p></div>
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concerned with hygiene: racial, mental and biological.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Melissa also said, in her bio: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Next Regular"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Text in my art is another layer of
cultural iconography much as a found object is to art.. The juxtaposition
creates something altogether stronger and different than either standing
alone. The poetry is the tension, the cohesion and the absence of
dependence between the two. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Next Regular"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
pieces came out of a period of work that started with my work/grant in Berlin
where I lived in a former Jewish neighborhood and confronted both my complacent
notions of being a Jew from the U.S. against the space of voids, cracks , and
silences of the dilapidated shot and bombed out neighborhood in which I was
living. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Next Regular"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
work addresses historical ideas of racial and social hygiene from both the Nazi
“final solution” and other popular concepts such as “eugenics”, to books
exploring gender and social roles. The work continued when I returned to
the states to also address biological hygiene as the AIDS epidemic was raging.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isabella: </b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">For me, a loss of appetite
typically accompanies the end of a relationship. After a break-up last
spring, eight words sat me that I couldn’t shake. I thought about ways to
reclaim that phrase… how could I sweeten words that initially took my appetite
away? I asked friends for their heartbreak quotes and felt those familiar
pangs. You didn’t need to understand the intricacies of a relationship to feel
the weight of those final words. To me, desserts suggest: Go ahead. Gorge.
Engage with the uncomfortable, sticky feelings of a broken heart that are so
often dismissed as self-indulgent. Devour and reclaim the words that caused you
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Curator:</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> I guess the text-based
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Curator: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Here’s a piece of text art that
straddles a line that so much art in or around this genre does: the affirmation
line.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Is a rock with the word
“imagine” etched in it a piece of text-based art or is it front porch
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is an interesting word construction that illustrates some of the inherent
difficulties of pronunciation of the English language. Also, a fine
example of art that lives or dies with the text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #434343; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Clare:</span></b><span style="color: #434343;"> In this body of work I
begin with family heirlooms, personal keepsakes, and found objects that
activate a familiar feeling. I try to create representations of the
memories that surround these objects and give a physical presence to these
memory traces from childhood. I utilize the physical act of making as a
form of remembering through employing traditional domestic techniques that
were once commonplace in my family. Rope making, embroidery, and lace
tatting help me remember and feel connected to my childhood and family
that I have lost. Like Victorian sentimental and mourning jewelry, I
use my own hair as a material in my work. It is with my hair that I
become physically tied to those recollections I mourn.</span></div>
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From 2007-2013, I worked a full time job as a mat cutter at a frame shop in
midtown Manhattan. In my time there, I learned that, in the art world, the
frame shop essentially functions like the neighborhood barbershop, or better
yet, the red-headed step-child of an already dysfunctional family. Clients felt
free to discuss their inner dealings and gallery gossip in our showroom as if
none of us would or could have any regard for their lack of discretion. Over
those six years, I collected nuggets of those conversations, imagined my own
conversations with several of those art world powerhouses, and sought out
tidbits from others who also held lowly but otherwise vital positions within
galleries and institutions. At the same time, I collected numerous provenance
stickers from the backs of frames and portfolios and eventually came to
appropriate them with my own name, titles, and details. This became the body of
work that I call The Sticker Series.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The impetus for this body of work came from one particular
conversation with a client who reminded us to remove the provenance stickers
from the old frames and to adhere them to the new frames because “all the money
IS in the label.” My work explores both the idiocy and the irony of such a sentiment
and is essentially a sharp critique of the world in which I choose to
maneuver. Like the goal of all good literature, I strive to make
nuanced work that is at its core an examination of the oddities and intricacies
of the human condition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fact: In 2016, there are over 300 million guns in the United States. That is
enough weapons to equip the standing armies of every single country in the
world which is about 200 countries and still have some guns left over.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the 1990s I wanted to address the unsettling phenomenon
of the proliferation of guns and violence in the United States. I made an
observation on how some Americans just worship guns. Growing up Catholic and
admiring the beauty and reverence of religious iconography such as guilded
statuary in churches and elsewhere I felt that gun lovers had a similar
experience when around guns of any type. I also observed the ironic love
that hunters have for animals when they shoot and kill them just to stuff them
and proudly display their heads on their walls. With the <i>Guilt/Gilt</i>
series I am playing with the two words <i>Guilt</i> and <i>Gilt.</i> They sound
the same but have totally different meanings.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I conflated the worship of religious symbols that are
usually highly gilt with the worship of guns. I made pieces that resemble
hunters’ plaques on their walls with the heads of innocent dead Americans who
are shot either by accident, suicide, out of vengeance, in a criminal act or by
random violence. I guilded the guns (the objects of worship) and placed them on
the highly polished and stained wooden plaques that normally hold the animal
heads. I cut the plaques to represent the profile images of the murdered
human victims such as a young boy, a young girl, a veteran soldier, a hunter,
an average man, a young black man, etc. So with “Trophies” I am turning the
concept of a trophy upside down where instead of representing pride and
accomplishment, rather you are really seeing an object of death, sadness,
cruelty, false praise and guilt. In my WFG Gallery piece the trophy
guilded gun is mounted on a hunters profile plaque that is covered by the
pictures and names of the hundreds of Americans killed every day, week and year
by random gun violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Curator: </b>For this
piece, the text is a background element and because of that, it may be tempting
to say that this is not really a piece of text-based art, but imagine this
piece without the text; the text takes it to where the artist says he wants it
to go. I agree.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Mary Anne: </span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I’ve been tearing out old
ads from the 1930’s - 1970’s since I started my photo morgue as an art school
student. I’ve been especially drawn to the ads that struck me as humorous in
either their language/content and/or imagery. Also, my mom subscribed to the
Miles Kimball catalog when I was a kid and some of the products and associated
illustrations just made me laugh out loud. I’ve saved a lot of those too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In
2012, I created a series of collages incorporating images and text from these
sources that I found compelling. I was especially intrigued by how the
marketers preyed on people’s insecurities about their appearance and the
promise of being a “better version” of yourself if you just use <b>this product</b>.
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I fooled around with a few different techniques to enlarge the collages and
take them to the next level. I printed some of them on Lazertran, transferred
to white masonite boards, then painted with acrylics, accentuating areas of
interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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images were transformed into mono prints and photo transfers at The Woodstock
School of Art print shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an artist who has been primarily known for my Vanishing Roadside series of
paintings, I see a strong parallel in this series. I’m fascinated by a certain
whimsical sensibility that existed in the language and imagery of by-gone days.
The illustrative nature of vintage signs, and the underlying humor of these
vintage ads all add up to bring a smile to my face!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Curator:</b> I love
the retro kitsch feeling, so masterfully executed in these two pieces by Mary
Anne, but I fluctuate on whether I think they’re text-based art or social
commentary or both. They definitely make me, as a viewer, consider American
consumer culture and gender roles over the years.</span></div>
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Divideds” series began in 2010. Subtitled: Banners for a fickle will, each
fabric pieces presents a single word boldly printed across it: IDEAL,
PRETENDER, AWAY, NOWHERE. Each word is split by a zipper and viewers are
encouraged to zip or unzip the language causing a shift in tone with the new
language, moving from positive to negative or vice vera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Curator: </b>Beautiful,
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px;">Two passages from the Koran on a background of an Arabic language newspaper. They are </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px;">two “thall shalt not kill” passages from the Islamic holy book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px;">....anyone who murders any person who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people. (5:32) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px;">"You shall not kill any person - for God has made life sacred - except in the course of justice. If one is killed unjustly, then we give his heir authority to enforce justice. Thus, he shall not exceed the limits in avenging the murder, he will be helped."(17:33)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Thomas:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> "</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">I am especially interested in the
different parts of the brain used to process visual info and text info and how
one must jump back and forth in their brain to process both together. I use
found hand written notes as cryptic clues within the work. Both as Visual
TEXTure as well as conceptual texture."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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while I find them a little bit conceptually difficult, feel, in light of
Thomas’ statement above that they are most certainly text-based art. What do
you think? Can a piece of art truly be classified by one who doesn’t truly
understand it? If you trust the artist and follow their lead then the answer is
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of theological and poetic writings with each word partially obliterated .
The universal truths become the foundation and under current of the
work with the transcendence of associated religious dogma . The artists
intention is to express, as in a lingering prayer, the profound
understanding that life, future, justice, hope, and soundness of mind are
available to all people -without subjugation to human endeavors. It is
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as soon as I saw it, I wanted it for this exhibition. It’s especially
interesting to me because though it’s comprised entirely of text, it doesn’t
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Synchronicity is undeniable coincidence which may be feeding a narrative. It
may correspond to 'quantum' principles of causality we have not quite
incorporated into our worldview. Inner and outer realities dovetail
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text-based art has an air of playfulness to it. A delight in the language and
what it mostly means and what it might mean. Paul’s artworks here are a fine
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This series of drawings are a </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">collaboration
between Jacinta Bunnell and her step-father, Ed</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">ward </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Antoine, who supplies her with daily score
sheets from Thirteen, a rummy-like</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">card game first brought back to the family in the
'70s from Bunnell’s maternal grandparents’ retirement community in Jensen
Beach, Florida. Bunnell adds color and pattern to Antoine’s
grid work tally sheets. They both enjoy the clarity that comes from clean
design and attention to detail.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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This work doesn't feel like it’s text-based art to me. I think numbers could
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or “42”) but in this instance the numbers are simply background for some very
lovely designs. Still, these artworks are gorgeous to look at and as soon as I
saw them, I knew I really wanted some for this exhibition, which is examing
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above: 4 artworks by Sparrow.<br />
Text art? Comics? Both?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 21.0pt;">Sparrow:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 21.0pt;"> About
nine years ago I started writing one-line literary works that I now call “First
Lines of Novels.” Each one of them, in theory, could be the beginning of a 582
page work of fiction. Three years later, I began illustrating them. At first I
used paper, but my friend Tom Fraser suggested card stock.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Curator:</b> I love
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is: can cartoons be art? Can they be text-based art? By dint of clearly being
one thing, are they then excluded from being something else?</div>
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above: John Baldessari (will not be in show)<br />
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below: Inspired by Baldessari's piece above, 2 by Molly Rausch, an artist who wants to sell:<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Molly: </b>I bought
this John Baldessari postcard in London when I was traveling in 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made me laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided it was time to test his
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Curator:</b> Unlike
Mr. Baldessari, Molly did paint these. She was going to paint a re-creation of
his piece but, instead, came up with these wonderful, art-historically rich
originals based upon his painting. Perfect little nuggets of text-based art.</div>
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America’s most famous folk singer in critical response to Irving Berlins
"God Bless America." Feeling a bit like Woody may have when he penned
the song in 1940. "I'm feeling angry and powerless at the hands of
large corporate entities that live greedily for profit at the expense of the
people who inhabit this land.” These days I'm thinking Woody would
be singing these versus right along with us if he could. </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Curator: </b>I love
this piece, using the form of an existing song sheet to create a social
commentary. Text art as political art. Perfect.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Curator:</b> Well,
this is my piece and I really like it a lot but it seems more a piece of
conceptual art than a piece of text-based art. The meaning here comes more from
the presence of the text and its individual elements, (maybe even from the
historical importance of the speech itself) and not so much from the words or
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early piece of art (and, in a way, writing (or, at least, storytelling)) from
1970. Tom Philips<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>treated each page
of a novel from 1892 entitled <u>A Human Document</u> with different artistic
techniques, leaving certain words to show through, which then told a different
story altogether.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This seems not
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