This is an important distinction, and the art world has placed so much more value on information than texture over the last century that texture has been banished to the periphery when discussing art. I recently watched a video about Kara Walker’s monument, Fons Americanus, and while the narrator analyzed how it quotes and challenges…
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“The Painted Word hit the art world like a really bad, MSG-headache-producing, Chinese lunch.” – Rosalind Krauss. [If you know who Rosalind Krauss is, and her writing, you would know to consider the source, especially if you’d ever tried to plow through her attempts to harness and parrot the worse verbal excesses of the French…
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A conceptual digital work with 281 fonts, 281 words, and 281 layers. I used every font I have. For each layer in Photoshop, I choose a word off the top of my head, and each is assigned a font according to whichever is next in the list, and size and transparency through randomly generated numbers.…
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Art & Crit by Eric Wayne 
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