Walter Robinson loves the smell of napalm in his car.
Forest, 2008
MDF, Epoxy, metalflake
84″ x 62″ x 1″
Robinson is part of Txt at the James Harris Gallery.
In the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner and Joseph Kosuth were key figures in the East-Coast text take-over, Ed Ruscha 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.
Anthony Discenza
impersonates street signs. His idea of a directional assist is to point to everywhere at once.
Everything You’ve Heard, 2009
Vinyl on aluminum, Ed. of 5
24″ x 18″
Unfamiliar Sensations, 2008
(Installation View) Vinyl on aluminum, Ed. of 5
24″ x 18″
Who says the novel is dead?
Matthew Buckingham Narrative, 2001
Wall Text
Lauren Grossman
explores the mechanisms of blind faith
through its core imagery. Big steel birds, their feet fused into
cast-iron perches, their bodies cast in a blizzard of lettering, are emblems of fundamentalist love songs. They sing
to their own and are deaf to others.
Even Shorn, 2005
enameled cast iron, steel, rubber, brass
49″ x19″ x 21″
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.)
Brad Adkins
Black Boyfriend, 2006
Neon 4″ x 47″\
Through Aug. 20.
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