{"id":1806,"date":"2010-07-07T01:34:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/07\/messages_-_beyond_the_bottle\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T01:34:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T08:34:28","slug":"messages_-_beyond_the_bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/07\/messages_-_beyond_the_bottle.html","title":{"rendered":"Text as art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walter Robinson<\/a> loves the smell of napalm in his car. <\/p>\n

Forest<\/i>, 2008
\nMDF, Epoxy, metalflake
\n84″ x 62″ x 1″<\/p>\n

\"walterrobinsonforest.jpg\"Robinson is part of Txt<\/i> at the James Harris Gallery<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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In the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner<\/a> and Joseph Kosuth<\/a> were key figures in the East-Coast text take-over, Ed Ruscha<\/a> on the West. All advanced the idea that in visual art, text could stand alone. Today, sentence fragments, imperatives, questions and asides are more likely to serve as subject matter than a bouquet or a picnic on the grass.  <\/p>\n

Anthony Discenza<\/a>
\nimpersonates street signs. His idea of a directional assist is to point to everywhere at once.<\/p>\n

Everything You’ve Heard<\/i>, 2009
\nVinyl on aluminum, Ed. of 5
\n24″ x 18″<\/p>\n

\"AnthonyDiscenzasign1.jpg\"Unfamiliar Sensations<\/i>, 2008
\n(Installation View) Vinyl on aluminum, Ed. of 5
\n24″ x 18″<\/p>\n

\"AnthonyDiscenzastretsgn.jpg\"Who says the novel is dead?<\/p>\n

Matthew Buckingham<\/a> Narrative<\/i>, 2001
\nWall Text<\/p>\n

\"matthewbucknarrat.jpg\"Lauren Grossman<\/a>
\nexplores the mechanisms of blind faith
\nthrough its core imagery. Big steel birds, their feet fused into
\ncast-iron perches, their bodies cast in a blizzard of lettering, are emblems of fundamentalist love songs. They sing
\nto their own and are deaf to others. <\/p>\n

Even Shorn<\/i>, 2005
\nenameled cast iron, steel, rubber, brass
\n49″ x19″ x 21″<\/p>\n

\"laurengrossbird.jpg\"Finally, a jungle-fever designer object. (Note to the object in question: If he\/she cared about you, you’d be called boyfriend, not black boyfriend.)<\/p>\n

Brad Adkins<\/a>
\nBlack Boyfriend<\/i>, 2006
\nNeon 4″ x 47″\\<\/p>\n

\"bradatkinsblckboy.jpg\"Through Aug. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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