Word art

Word art has been used in painting, sculpture, lithography, screen-printing and projection mapping, and applied to T-shirts and other practical items.[3] Other artists whose work is known for using text include Jasper Johns, Robert Indiana, Shepard Fairey,[2] Mel Bochner, Kay Rosen, Paul Kuniholm, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha and the collective Guerrilla Girls, whose work conveys political messages in the tradition of protest art.[4] Australian artists include Abdul Abdullah, Kate Just, Anastasia Klose, Sue Kneebone,[3] and Vernon Ah Kee.[5] A 2018 exhibition held simultaneously at Subliminal Projects (which was co-founded by Fairey) in Los Angeles and Faction Art Projects in New York featured the word art of Holzer, Ruscha, Guerrilla Girls and Betty Tompkins as well as younger artists like Ramsey Dau and Scott Albrecht.[1] Also in 2018, an exhibition called Word in the Hugo Mitchell Gallery in Adelaide, South Australia, featured the work of Just, Abdullah, Klose, Kneebone, Alice Lang, Richard Lewer, Sera Waters, and many others.
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