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Featuring the work of Marc Dombrosky, John Jenkins III, Patte Loper, William Powhida,
Nicola Vruwink, Wayne White, Will Yackulic

Throughout history, there has been in the visual arts a tradition of combining text and art. Medieval written manuscripts in Christian Europe were interlaced with pictures which helped to create layered meaning. The 18th-century poet William Blake published his writings with his own inllustrations resulting in a syntheses beyond one or the other alone. Dadists and Surrealsits in the early 20th centure combined fragments of found text and appropriated images to open new paths and the Futurists' use of innovative typography exemplified their belief in the expressivity of language. From the 1960's to the present artists as diverse as Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, Ed Rushca, Ree Morton, Vernon Fisher, Kay Rosen, On Kawara, Duane Michels Jenny Holzer, Lorna Simpson all have woven visual images and verbal symbols together with great force.

This exhibition explores the variety of ways contemporary artists look critically at cultural narratives through the use of language in their art. This work is at an intersection between personal and political worlds which demonstrates what it feels like to be in this world at this time and goes beyond the way we commonly use or view both language and art.

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