TEXT BASED ART — A further brief analysis using the five pieces in the short video as examples:
Consider text based art as inquiry into the rules of lines and curves, not just the rules of language ... ... Consider text based art as inquiry into systems of organization for lines and curves, not just semantic meaning and language interpretation, but rather also for interpretation and meaning in abstraction.
By seeing letters, words, and text in art as guidance for gestural marks, text based art, in any one language, may transcend that one language and become universal and accessible across cultures where language barriers may otherwise occur.
There are the lines and curves on the canvas --- the marks --- and then there are the boundaries of the formal to the abstraction, too.
The history of text based art -- words in art -- is one of depth across societies, cultures, times, and purpose.
It is a continued focus of artist Adam Daley Wilson's work. As he works with these ideas, they may turn out to be untrue, or only of use some part of the time. But as of Summer 2022 the continues to sense there is something to the creation of facially abstract art that is created by finding the boundaries that govern the placement of rules in lines when letters and words and paragraphs are used to guide.
Adam Daley Wilson is a conceptual artist with an emphasis on a text-based practice. His works manifest in text-based video, oil painting, new media, and performance art. Based in Portland Maine, Adam Wilson is represented by ENGAGE Projects Gallery in Chicago (formerly Aspect/Ratio Projects). His art and his art essays are informed both by his bipolar 1 mental illness and his traditional degrees from Penn and Stanford Law. Via ENGAGE Projects Gallery in Chicago. Text by the artist.
[Draft article by Adam Daley Wilson July 2022 —- needs editing and excuse any typos.]