The phrase "text artist" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who creates art using text, such as a graphic designer who specializes in typography or a poet who creates works of literary art. For example: "My friend Chris is a talented text artist. She specializes in creating unique and inspiring typographic designs for advertising campaigns."
I also wanted to push the sort blank graphic style of text artists like Lawrence Weiner and see if I could make it a vehicle for a tone of voice that's closer to poetry, and then see if I could make all that work on a billboard.
Down at the bottom of the list of new features promised by iOS5, the iPhone operating system that débuted last year, was something at which only a true text-artist would rejoice: the iPhone keyboard would now come automatically equipped with Emoji, a line of tiny Japanese pictographs that can be deployed like letters.
In the show's accompanying wall text the artist is quoted, "It was an exotic name to me, so I just called them Persians".
In a quote in the wall text, the artist says, "I began exploring black monochrome painting to present black's intrinsically enigmatic beauty and infinite depth to refute all negative cultural mythologies about the color and ultimately to create work that innately expresses the all encompassing spirituality of life".
Mr. Hayes's "Going On" is set to music by Morton Feldman with video by the choreographer, and includes readings of Beckett text by artists including Marjorie Gamso and Gretchen MacLane.
Drawing on patients' personal testimonies, medical texts and artist and patient notes, the exhibition seeks to give sufferers a voice, and explore whether images can help negotiate between different perspectives.
Now this old school bacchanalia may be replaced by instant text messaging artists during a concert.
ARTIST AT LARGE with color illustrations and text by the artist, describing his experience of skydiving--a 64th birthday present from his wife.
Third, as a spokesman for comics, Spiegelman wanted to secure some highbrow credentials for the form, and had the neat idea of commissioning novelists to write texts for artists to illustrate.
