Tag: text

• Mission Artists United ~ A Few Photos from Open Studios

  Please pardon the photography. I took these photos on my phone and didn’t want to wait too long to post a few of my favorites from Open Studios this weekend. I highly encourage visiting their sites and taking a look around. Obviously, their work is so much better in person but these were definitely some […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  April 17, 2012

  Art, Art Practice, Artist’s Studio, Inside the Artist’s Studio, Observations

  bay area, diane komater, jonathan barcan, mission artists united, open studios, painting, San Francisco, sonya philip, text, Textiles

• Words | and | Images

  What is it about the construction of the human mind that makes the interplay of words and images seem, despite innumerable historical and regional variations, to be something like a cultural universal? ~ W.J.T. Mitchell, Word and Image essay from Critical Terms for Art History At the moment, I’m taking a Voice and Vision class at the San Francisco […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  June 30, 2011

  Art Writing and Criticism

  postaday2011, text, visual arts, word and image

• Words, Words, and more Words (static)

  If you haven’t guessed from recent posts, language and text-based art have been on my mind lately. This also means I’m looking at words and reading a bit more attentively than usual. Bruce Nauman’s piece, One Hundred Live and Die, displays a wide array of short sentences with words ‘live’ or ‘die’. His simple use […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  June 9, 2011

  Art, Conceptual, Sculpture, Visual Arts

  bruce nauman, conceptual art, postaday2011, Sculpture, text, text based art