I was rummaging through the endless piles of papers in my office and I came across a flier for the Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta. The current exhibit is (directly quoted from the flier):
The Word in Art: The Use of Text in Contemporary Southern Art
If this is the Age of Information, the word is our basic unit, our common currency. Words fly via television and radio, by telephone and fax, and, of course, the computer. They are printed in books, magazines and newspapers, emblazoned across tee-shirts, billboards, and movie screens… branded in our consciousness through their constant presence. Words are information in themselves.
Artists describe and reflect their time, so it fits that words are integral to the meaning or add to its narrative quality. In others, placement within the composition, which is more important than what they say.
In this exhibition, we offer for your “reading” a small sampling of words at work in the art of some exceptional contemporary southern artists.
-Marianne B. Lambert, Curator
I’m not sure if Scarecrow will enjoy this as much as I but there are several artist I greatly admire that employ this technique and I am excited about seeing more examples of this style of work.
I used to spend hours writing and drawing…until THAT day…more often than not my scribbling and scrawling intermingled into one cohesive piece of work. I happened across works by actual artists while flipping through a trade magazine…from then on I have been interested in text/art.
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