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Wordscapes: Text as Image in Contemporary Art
Saturday, September 12, 2009—Sunday, March 14, 2010
Gallery 263
This exhibition examines the conceptual, functional, and pictorial interrelationships of text and image in contemporary graphic art from 1960 to the present.
Throughout much of the twentieth century, visual artists have used language, letters, numbers, words, and text as both compositional and ideographic devices. Beginning in the 1960s, when experimental art of many types flourished, an increasing number of artists began to explore the expressive potential of text, language, and linguistic structure, with often amazing results.
Drawn primarily from the MIA's permanent collection, this selection of works features original prints, drawings, multiples, and a small number of paintings by artists such as Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Emmett Williams, Robert Indiana, Cy Twombly, John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, May Stevens, Lesley Dill, Glenn Ligon, Tom Phillips, Suzanne McClelland, and Fred Wilson.
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The Music of Words, The Poetry of
Sounds, SUNY Albany Art Museum, performance Be Blank Consort and
exhibition, 2009.
Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival,
Roanoke, VA, Presentation and performance, 2009.
Artichoke’s, New Brunswick, NJ, Performance 2008.
30th Annual Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture
Association Meeting, Performance and presentation, Albuquerque, NM, 2008.
Think
Coffee, New York, NY, Performance, 2007.
Bowery
Poetry Center, New York, NY, Performance, 2007.
Rondo
Community Library, St. Paul, MN, 2007. Piece etched in glass door.
Shattered
Wig, performance, Baltimore, MD, 2006.
Prescott
College, IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF LANGUAGE SERIES – PART II: The Be Blank Consort.
Performance, 2006.
“New
Gallery Series,” exhibition and performance, Community Music Center of Boston,
Boston, MA, 2006.
“2006
Northeast PA Regional Art,” Marywood University, Scranton, PA 2006.
“Many
Many,” Mid-America Print Conference, Ohio University, Majestic Gallery, Athens,
OH, 2006.
“Primarily
Green,” Park Avenue Club, NJ, 2006.
“Juxtaposition:
We Are So!,” Berkeley Art Center, Boulder, CO, 2006.
“Blends
and Bridges,” Gallery 324, Cleveland, OH, 2006.
“There’s
a Song in My Art,” Edison Arts Society, Edison, NJ, 2006.
“SHARD:
Textual Fragments in a Shattered World,” Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle,
WA, 2006.
“Typical
& Atypical,” The Ontological Museum, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 2006.
“Silicon
Sands,” Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art, Las Cruces, NM 2005.
“Sound
Vision/vision Sound III,” The Nave Gallery, Somerset, MA, 2005.
“Still,
Life with Words,” Gallery 308, Minneapolis, MN, 2005.
“Visual
Poetry,” Durban Segnini Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, exhibition and performance,
2005.
“Subtropics
Experimental Music and Sound Arts Festival,” Dorch Gallery, Miami, FL,
exhibition, presentation, and performance, 2005.
“Multiplicity
for the Millions,” 2002, Minnesota Center for Book Arts Minneapolis, MN.
“Women’s
History Month/Female Faculty Show,” 2004, Taos Institute of Arts, Taos, NM.
“Alphabets,”
Oculus Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2004.
“Word
Seen,” Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL Exhibition & performance 2003.
“Writing
to Be Seen,” curator, Minnesota Center for Book Arts at Open Book, Minneapolis,
MN, exhibition, presentation, and performance, 2003.
Miami
International Book Fair Exhibition, Miami FL, 2002.
“Writing
to Be Seen,” curator, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, exhibition and
performance, 2002.
“An
American Avant Garde: Second Wave,” Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,
performance, presentation, and exhibition, 2002.
Books
and Books, Coral Gables, FL, exhibition, performance, book launch, 2002.
“Art
of the Book, 2002,” University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, 2002.
“02txt,
a Celebration of the Visual Word,” Art Academy of Cincinnati, exhibition and
performance, 2002.
“Inside
OUT,” Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, exhibition and
performance, 2001.
“Six
Contemporary American Visual Poets,” Ocean Grove, Australia, 2000.
“25
Years of Feminism, 25 Years of Women’s Art,” Douglass College at Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1996.
“This
Is a Book Show!” S.U.N.Y. College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY, 1992.
“Garden
State Women,” Women’s Caucus for Art, Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1988.
“Women
Artist Series,” Douglass College at Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ, 1987.
“Pages
of Revelation,” City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, 1986.
“Letters,”
Women’s Caucus for Art National Show, The Clocktower, New York, 1986.
“Liberty’s
Book Opened,” Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, 1986.
Princeton
University, Princeton University League, Princeton, NJ, One-woman show, 1983.
“Wordswork,”
Coffman Union Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1983.
“Language and
Structure in North America,” Kensington Arts Association Gallery, Toronto,
Canada, 1975 .
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