Text

Studio Montclair

May. 24, 2025 - Jun. 28, 2024

127 Bloomfield Avenue
Montclair, 07042
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“Text” demonstrates the potent ability for words to be translated into art using an abundance of materials and mediums to create an unlimited variety of imagery. The use of typography and text in art dates from the late 19th century when advertising—posters created by such well-known artists as Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha—emerged as an art form, followed by its use in Cubism by Picasso, Braque, and Gris. More recently, according to Juror Teddi Dolph, “The use of typography and text has been used by artists to make political statements – Jenny Holzer, to comment on societal constructs; Shepard Fairy, to imbed language into the environment, and Ed Ruscha in his commentary on the barrage of mass media-fed images that confronts us daily.

Juror: Teddi Dolph

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