Category Archives: text-based artists
A rich mix: poetry/art from Puerto Rico
While in Puerto Rico for a week and wondering around Santurce around both the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and also looking for street art (some of which sadly no longer exists), I was struck with the large use of … Continue reading
Posted in art, collage, poetry, text-based artists
Tagged Adal, Adal maldonado, alexis diaz, art, duane michaels, hunter college, joan mitchell foundation, juan sanchez, Julia de Burgos Performance and Arts center, library of congress, lithographs, lorenzo homar, mixed media, museo de arte de puerto rico, poetry, printmaking, puerto rico, santurce, street art, text, tomas blanco
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A Collaboration
Sadly now over, the Gagosian in LA, recently held a exhibition that was collaboration between an artist Alex Israel and Bret Eastern Ellis. Ellis is best known for his novels Less Than Zero, American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction, … Continue reading
Posted in art, photography, text-based artists
Tagged alex israel, beverly hills, bret eastern ellis, gagosian, los angeles, los angeles art, text, text art, text-based art
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Text Home.
Once upon a time- 12 years ago- I lived in San Francisco. It was just for a year, fresh out of college, interning at a theatre, broke as all hell, living on fumes and alcohol, but it was one of … Continue reading
“I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.” — Barbara Kruger So today I found out that the LA Fund for Public Education and ForYourArt is initiating what … Continue reading
Dear Raymond
I stumbled across these a while ago. I’ve liked Raymond Pettibon for a while, dragged to go see a gallery full of his drawings in 2003 by a friend who was a huge Black Flag fan (his brother is Greg … Continue reading
Posted in book covers, text-based artists, Uncategorized
Tagged art, inspiration, Painting, raymond pettibon, text, words, writing
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A Cunt is A Rose is A Cunt- from Juliet to Gertrude to Tracey
“A cunt is a rose is a cunt” is Emin’s reworking of the famous/notorious line from Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem “Sacred Emily”: “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”. This was probably inspired in turn by Juliet’s … Continue reading
1000 words to sing you a song: art and opera
I came across this article the other day, of two artists first ventures into opera. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesley-dill/opera-chicks-artists-ev-d_b_836660.html I’d been investigating the work of Lesley Dill, for a little bit, loving her text based costume sculptures, and E.V I already knew about … Continue reading
Posted in art, performance, text-based artists, Theatre
Tagged clothing. artists and opera, contemporary art, Costumes, creative descruction, deconstruction, divide light, e.v day, emily dickenson, lesley dill, multi media, new york city opera, performance, poem dress sculpture, poetry, text art, word art
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Concrete Words
A Heap of Language, Robert Smithson “This much is already known: for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherances.”* So, I finally decided to blog about what started this entire site in … Continue reading
Posted in art, performance, text-based artists, Uncategorized
Tagged art, borges, douglas gordon, etxt, jauma plausa, language, library, performance, robert smithson, tate, word art, word play
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Text Based Art 