Dahylia Elsayed, Three Year Triptych, 2007-10, Acrylic on Paper, 46″H x 34″ W each, Courtesy of the Artist
Artists
- Manuel Acevedo
- BRED (Ned Drew & Brenda McManus)
- Jose Camacho
- Dana C. Chandler (a.k.a. Akin Duro)
- Dahlia Elsayed
- Shepard Fairey
- Asha Ganpat
- Adebunmi Gbadebo
- Barbara Kruger
- Yvonne Lawson
- Cesar Melgar
- David Oquendo
- OSPAAAL (Organization for Solidarity for the People of Asia, Africa & Latin America)
- Nell Painter
- German Pitre
- Kevin Sampson
- Dread Scott
- Sherman
- Amanda Thackray
- Hank Willis Thomas
- Adrienne Wheeler
- Noelle Lorraine Williams
About
Text and images have been interconnected in art for thousands of years. Egyptian hieroglyphics circa 3200BC were a pictorial language painted on papyrus to tell stories about society. In the 13th to 15th centuries illuminated manuscripts from were made with animal skins to tell stories about religion or rulers. Nowadays, artists use text in various forms (printed, calligraphic and pictorial forms), to make works which communicate their ideas about the world. Language and aesthetic properties are in dialogue with one another, refuting or reinforcing, the message(s) of the work.
