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Exhibition Detail

Group Show

Read Me! Text in Art

Curated by: Malik Gaines

Armory Center for the Arts

145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

December 9th, 2007 - February 24th, 2008

Opening:
December 8th, 2007 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Glynnis Reed

Dustin Ericksen

Charles Gaines

Emily Roysdon

Ken Lum

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> ARTISTS

Lisa Anne Auerbach	Ken Lum
My Barbarian	Lucas Michael
Andrea Bowers	Jack Pierson
Shannon Ebner	Glynnis Reed
Dustin Ericksen	Guan Rong
Charles Gaines	Emily Roysdon
Alexandra Grant	Lara Schnitger
Vishal Jugdeo	Stephanie Taylor
Glenn Ligon	Mark Titchner

> QUICK FACTS

WEBSITE:

http://www.armoryarts.org/

NEIGHBORHOOD:

pasadena/glendale

EMAIL:

information@armoryarts.org

PHONE:

626.792.5101

OPEN HOURS:

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, noon - 5 p.m.

ARTS ORGANIZATION:

Armory Center for the Arts

> DESCRIPTION

Included in this exhibition are works by artists that picture words, letters or written text. Contemporary urban life is wrapped in language. From the negotiation of public space to the forms of our innermost thoughts, words shape the world. While theories of Western art have occasionally sent language to the sidelines of aesthetic pleasure, the vast history of art—from illuminated texts to silk rugs; from calligraphy to conceptual art—has held a central place for the well-wrought word. The artists assembled for this group exhibition wield words as content and form, making visual statements that can be nonsensical or serious, activist or frivolous, and sometimes all of these at once. Speaking through videos, drawings, paintings, collage, textiles, and photographs, these works ask the viewer to “Read Me.”

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