Joe Wardwell, If You Got the Money Honey, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 54 × 72 inches (137.2 × 182.9 cm). Gift of Mathieu O. Gaulin © Joe Wardwell
Wordplay draws primarily from the ICA’s permanent collection to showcase how contemporary artists have played with words to animate and expand their art practices.
Highlighting the rich interplay between imagery and text and the related practices of looking and reading, Wordplay draws primarily from the ICA’s permanent collection to showcase how contemporary artists have played with words to animate and expand their art practices. Text has been part of visual expression for centuries, but “text art” as a genre began to proliferate with the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s. Artists in the exhibition use text to probe philosophical ... view more »
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Nonmember $20.00
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Youth (13-18) $0.00
Youth (0-12) $0.00
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