Long's text works are usually pithy things, set in the typeface he favours most: Gill.
This exhibition includes photography, textiles, video and text works from her extensive 30-year career, from the 1980s to 2014.
She is known for her quirky text works, stencilling on walls or using old-fashioned black noticeboards with movable letters.
"We thought she would appreciate the humor," El Celso said of Ms. Holzer, whose text works reside in important museum collections around the world.
(Picture book; ages 4 to 8) A follow-up to "Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm," Lenore's genial true tale, told through lively animal photography and sweet, descriptive text, works as a stand-alone.
From fiction, he tells us, we learn about good and evil, cruelty and kindness, but in ways that are always elliptical, as the text works on us in its own silent, secret way.
Mr. Schlossberg shows a series of text works: rectangular brass sheets with cut-out Jasper Johns-style letters spelling out portentous phrases like "being conscious becomes our destruction" or "awake through every wave".
But what Firth plainly doesn't understand is his "fundamentally stupid" exhibition is nothing of the sort; there are numerous Australian artists who have staged exhibitions of text works, in painting, drawing, and sculpture.
The show also includes hermetic text works from the nineties, made after Goldstein withdrew from the art world, as well as a film, which he began in 1983 and finished twenty years later — a montage of underwater footage, gushing with unstoppable force.
Three kinds of works are exhibited here: text works; photographs, usually of works in the landscape, which incorporate a modicum of text (seldom much); a large wall piece fashioned from Avon mud; and, engulfing the entire floor of Gallery 3, a Greek cross assembled from hefty slivers of Cornish slate.
That is, a written-to-be-spoken text works best when it reflects patterns of speech.
