Theories of Personal Art Systems No .1 ... Installation ... 2024 ... New Media, Digital Light, and Liquid Monitor with Stainless Steel and Glass Mirror ... ~ 48 in x 16 in ... ... the piece uses ~ 20,000 recognized character-symbols ... in semiotic constructions in accepted syntax ... to propose a theory ... that beyond established conceptions of personal writing systems in visual art, music, literature, and verse ... artists also can and do develop ... more profoundly ... underlying personal language systems ... and, even more profoundly ... personal thought systems ... all relating to the transmittal, reception, and interpretation of an artist's creative practice ... the initial articulation of the theory ... in relation to current theories of art creation and interpretation ... appears here as an installation ... and separately as a 10-page essay written and self-published by the artist in May 2024 ... ... in this light, the experimentation with a personal writing, language, and thought system increasingly provides a way to understand my own practice and substantive output in the context of text-based conceptual visual art ... ... ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #postminimalism #postmodernism #poststructuralism #textbasedart #newmediaart #wordart #minimalistart #digitalart #arttheory #arthistory #artcriticism #personalwritingsystems #personalwritingsystem #personallanguagesystem #personalthoughtsystem #installationart #chicagogalleries #chicagogallery #chicagoartist #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #semiotics #asemic #asemicart #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Now I Feel Just Fine ... 2024 ... artist's oil painted text on artist's photograph and varnish on canvas ... 68 in x 48 in ... cf. I Feel So Much Better Now (2021) ... substantively referencing concepts of relief from the real and the imagined ... from escapism ... to addiction ... to denial ... to intentional ignorance ... to immorality ... ... the photograph was taken over the ocean, off the coast of portland maine, near the artist's studio, in 2019 ... ... visually referencing ruscha and others ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #postminimalism #textbasedart #newgenresart #ultracontemporaryart #wordart #chicagogallery #maineartist #contemporaryartcollector #contemporaryartcurator #modernartcurator #artcritic #artnewsmag #dailyart #edruscha #barbarakruger #johnbaldessari #lawrenceweiner #artnow #artdaily #chicagogalleries #chicagoartists #stanfordlawyer #kayrosen #melbochner #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
New Cave Painting No. 12 (Art With Theory No. 1) ... 2024 ... oil, enamel, charcoal, and varnish on canvas ... ~ 80 in x 60 in ... ~ 7.5 ft x 5 ft ... ...The piece is comprised entirely of text in the artist's personal writing system ... ~ 45 layers of semiotic language overwritten between layers of varnish ... executed in short writing bursts totalling about an hour in late 2023 through early 2024 ... ... Arising from research, thinking, and experiments that began in 2018 ... ... The first in a series. The pieces will be about prevailing art theories in broader contexts and are anticipated to propose expansions of theories to date ... Substantive details pending mid-2024 in preparation for next show anticipated 2025 (This Is Art In Theory) ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #conceptualart #postconceptualart #modernart #contemporaryart #postminimalism #postmodernart #postminimalistart #newgenresart #ultracontemporaryart #postpostmodernism #textbasedart #personalwritingsystems #personalwritingsystem #gesturalpainting #graffitiart #actionpainting #chicagogalleries #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #cytwombly #glennligon #melbochner #christopherwool #adampendleton #artcurator #artcritic #artcriticism #artheory #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
I Am Also That But Not Just That ... 2024 ... artist's oil painted text on artist's photograph on canvas ... 72 in x 44 in ... ... The piece lands within the artist's continued interest in visual and language meaning and understanding ... in relation to things beyond the cognitive ... and beyond the emotional ... including the gut sense, the hunch, the impression, the intuition, and the somatic, or body, felt experience ... ... cf. pending future work 'We Do Not Have Words To Talk About These Things' ... ... the photograph was taken beyond the United States in 2024 ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #postminimalism #newgenresart #newmediaart #textbasedart #ultracontemporaryart #edruscha #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #josephkosuth #lawrenceweiner #melbochner #glennligon #chicagogalleries #maineartist #chicagoartist #bipolarart #spiritualpath #integration #somaticart #feltexperience #somatic #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Some Feelings And Thoughts I'll Have Every Second ... 2023 ... oil on canvas ... ~ 72 x 60 in ... shown during second solo show, 2023 ... an Artforum Must See in Chicago, April 2023 ... a Mousse Magazine curatorial selected show ... in alignment with EXPO Chicago ... Engage Projects Gallery ... ... the piece may be interpreted as one in a series exploring the cause and effect workings of a bipolar 1 mind that is experiencing a mild mania (hypomania) ... cf. installation of the same title, with performance art, New York City, 2018 ... see prior posts ... ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #postminimalism #textbasedart #newgenresart #oilpainting #wordart #chicagogallery #chicagogalleries #christopherwool #adampendleton #melbochner #glennligon #popel #kayrosen #jennyholzer #johnbaldessari #josephkosuth #lawrenceweiner #rosalindkrauss #bipolarartist #mentalillnessart #stanfordlawyer #artsy #kunst #artworkoftheday #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
I Feel So Much Better Now (We All Like To Look Away Sometimes) ... 2020 ... artist's oil painted text on appropiated altered image on canvas ... 10 ft x 5ft ... short listed, VAA Juried Exhibition, Houston, 2020, Jurist Harry Cooper, Senior Curator and Head of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC ... see prior posts for details ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #postminimalism #textbasedart #newgenresart #oilpainting #wordart #ultracontemporaryart #edruscha #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #josephkosuth #kayrosen #melbochner #hiroshisugimoto #andreasgursky #chicagogalleries #chicagogallery #maineartist #chicagoartist #largeart #artnow #artsy #artdaily #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Kingdom Artificia ... (Now The New Sun God) ... 2024 ... oil stick, oil pastel, and graphite pencil on canvas ... 82 x 60 in ... ~ 5 x 7 ft ... see detail, next post ... the piece has ~ 30 layers of overlapping materials and overlapping text in the artist's personal writing system ... substantively the piece is a ~ 700 word cohesive inquiry and questioning of the natural (organic) and artificial (computer / machine) soul, consciousness, spirituality, morality, emotion, body-felt-sensation, and intelligence ... the piece references ~ 20 philosophers and similar thinker-feelers across all continents in the past millennia who have considered the above various intellectual ways and spiritual / religious paths ... in terms of art histories the piece also makes references including those tagged below ... cf. Species Anosognosia (2018, sold 2023) ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #newgenresart #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #postminimalism #contemporaryart #textbasedart #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #abstractpainting #ultracontemporaryart #cytwombly #jacksonpollock #adampendleton #melbochner #glennligon #popel #robertrauschenberg #jasperjohns #christopherwool #chicagogallery #artificialintelligence #spiritualpath #lookatwhatwehavecreated #letmesaythisaboutthat #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Baby I Just Don't Care ... Installation view, US collection ... 2024 ... oil on canvas ... see prior post for hallway studio view + hollywood and art history references within the piece... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #textbasedart #ultracontemporaryart #ultracontemporaryart #christopherwool #melbochner #barbarakruger #kayrosen #edruscha #jennyholzer #chicagogallery #expochicago #chicagoartist #maineartist #dailyart #artworkoftheday #photooftheday #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #letmesaythisaboutthat #wordart #minimalistart #bwart #chicagoart #babyijustdontcare #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
No Sense In The Body Says Yes ... 2024 ... oil stick on canvas ... ~ 7.5 ft x 5 ft ... ... the piece was executed in ~ 3 minutes with one oil stick after 2 weeks of approaching things not only through the head and heart, but also through the body and its sense ... ... the piece is comprised entirely of text in the artist's loose handwriting ... with overwriting of words, each roughly six inches to a foot tall ... in ~ 3 to 12 layers on various areas of the canvas ... ... substantively the piece is one in a series by the artist attempting to sit, or be, with thoughts, feelings, and now senses, in the mind, heart, and now full body ... cf. earlier works in the past few weeks ... ... as to art history and various literary, poetic, and spiritual traditions, the piece makes visual and subject matter references to a dozen sources that will be added to this post down the road ... for now, I just want to sense + be + listen to what is no, and what is yes, and what might be in between ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #abstractexpressionism #abstractpainting #actionpainting #gesturalpainting #graffitiart #textbasedart #wordart #minimalistart #bwart #largeart #abstractart #cytwombly #bricemarden #robertrauschenberg #jasperjohns #christopherwool #glennligon #melbochner #adampendleton #popel #oilstick #contemporaryart #ultracontemporaryart #chicagogallery #chicagogalleries #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
A Most Profound Moment Of Your Life ... 2024 ... artist's oil painted text on artist's unfiltered photograph on canvas ... 72 in x 40 in ... ... layers of mountains and fog above Santa Cruz, California ... ... this piece is deeply personal to the artist and will remain in the artist's collection, not for sale ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalism #textbasedart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #ultracontemporaryart #edruscha #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #josephkosuth #christopherwool #lawrenceweiner #contemporaryart #postminimalist #wordart #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #chicagogalleries #maineartist #spiritualism #spiritualpath #awareness #openness #vulnerability #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Let My Body Unlearn All I Used To Know ... 2024 ... oil pen and ink on canvas ... ~ 74 in x 62 in ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #postminimalism #textbasedart #glennligon #melbochner #adampendleton #bricemarden #cytwombly #jacksonpollock #joanmitchell #jasperjohns #abstractexpressionism #abstractpainting #actionpainting #gesturalpainting #graffitiart #spiritualism #enlightenment #mindbodysoul #mindbody #mindbodyspirit #chicagogalleries #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
All The Ways Aware Of Us Unknown And Ignored ... 2024 ... artist's oil painted text ... oil stick, oil pastel, and india ink on canvas with artist's varnish ... 78 in x 58 in ... substantively, the piece is an execution of over thirty layers of textual iterations of the title and its themes ... the piece contemplates and posits alternative possibilities --- and alternative perspectives on the concept and direction of awareness itself --- as referenced by certain spiritual and mystical traditions of enlightenment and harmony with nature historically found in non-Western cultural traditions worldwide ... ... visually, and as to Western art history, the piece references Picasso's blue period as well as postconceptual text-based works by Glenn Ligon, Mel Bochner, and Adam Pendleton ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalism #textbasedart #postminimalistart #glennligon #adampendleton #melbochner #chicagogalleries #chicagoartists #maineartist #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #mentalillnessart #neoconceptualart #oilpainting #oilstick #wordart #socialcriticism #socialcommentary #artasactivism #enlightenment #spiritualism #mysticism #anthropology #shamanism #beliefsystems #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Another Abdication Of The Duty To Discern ... 2023 ... artist's oil painted text on artist's unfiltered photograph on canvas with artist's varnish ... 72 x 48 in ... ... the photograph by the artist is of a coastline of Maine where the artist has existed first as a child, four decades ago, and more recently again, now as an adult ... ... the work makes art history, literary, academic, social contract, philosophic, and mystical references ... ... and may be interpreted on several levels ... including the artist's first attempted conceptualizations of the nexus of culpability, duty, responsibility, and cognitive discernment in the arguably non-cognitve realms of spiritual paths, magical realism, mysticism, shamanism, and other mapped paths of universal enlightenment ... ... cf. Species Anosognosia (2018) ... ... additional details pending as this body of work expands artistically, conceptually, and, it is hoped, in ways transcending the cognitive and traditional aesthetic ... ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #contemporaryart #ultracontemporaryart #textbasedart #postminimalism #postminimalistart #conceptualpainting #postminimalism #spiritualism #enlightenment #mysticism #transcendentalism #shamanism #discernment #magicalrealism #newgenresart #neoconceptualart #chicagogalleries #maineartist #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #mentalillnessart #psychology #spiritualpath #judgment #integration #mystical #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Video still ... Performance Art ... Chicago 2023 ... oil stick painting, personal writing system, and spoken word ... full video with Engage Projects Gallery Chicago ... or on artist's site ... or youtube ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #performanceart #personalwritingsystems #actionpainting #gesturalpainting #graffitiart #minimalism #textbasedart #postmodern #postpostmodern #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualism #ultracontemporaryart #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #chicagogalleries #maineartist #cytwombly #jacksonpollock #robertrauschenberg #jasperjohns #christopherwool #glennligon #adampendleton #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #jennyholzer #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
If You Let Yourself Think About It ... 2023 ... artist's oil painted text on altered section of appropriated image on canvas ... 72 x 40 in ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalism #minimalism #postminimalistart #postpostmodernart #textbasedart #newmediaart #oilpainting #edruscha #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #kayrosen #melbochner #chicagogallery #maineartist #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #kunst #igers #ig_underground #wordart #ultracontemporaryart #bipolarartist #mentalillnessart #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Superposition Of The Different States Of Presence And Unavailability ... 2023 ... oil stick and charcoal on canvas ... 82.5 x 60.25 in (208.9 x 152.6 cm) ... ... cf. prior post ... ... comprised entirely of legible semiotic text in roughly 6 layers of overwriting --- simultaneously in both the artist's left and right hands ... ... rendering purposeful illegibility through visual abstraction ... ... an example of the artist's evolving personal writing system and "scrawl" pieces dating to 2018 ... ... executed in in less than 15 minutes after thinking about the ideas recorded in the piece for almost seven months ... ... the piece is roughly 850 words in cohesive phrases that explore and ask questions about (i) possible applications of quantum mechanics --- here, the principle of superposition --- the ability of a thing to be in different physical states at the same time --- to (ii) the ability of humans to be in different states of head and heart at the same time too, ambiguously, and why such superposition may be hard at first to understand, and whether lack of understanding is not a shortcoming of the heart in superposition, but rather of our initial expectations, and our initial preference for congruence, and whether there can be an evolved ability to sit, and just be, with simultaneous presence and unavailability ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #contemporaryart #textbasedart #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #abstractpainting #postminimalism #postminimalistart #conceptualpainting #oilpainting #oilstick #largeart #newgenresart #ultracontemporaryart #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #chicagogalleries #maineartist #bricemarden #cytwombly #joanmitchell #jacksonpollock #personalwritingsystems #scrawlpaintings #gesturalpainting #graffitiart #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
New York City 2018 --- 1. installation view, friday 2. viewer dismantling, saturday 3. end view, sunday ... five years ago this fall ... first dialogical installation, New York City, 2018 ... in a 16 ft wide x 12 ft tall piece, the conceptual abstract, left, engaged the conceptual text, right ... ... the abstract is 'Fourth Study For A New American Flag' ... the text piece is 'Just Who Has The Illness Of The Mind' ... ... after 24 hours intact, viewers were invited to dismantle the pieces ... letter by letter, and circle by circle ... until the ability of the pieces to dialog was lost ... ... the installation and the experiment were an early exploration of meaning-making (Rosalind Krauss, others), meaning-loss, and also protest and activist art ... through language as well as abstraction ... ... the 72 hour installation also had related performance art by the artist ... related to conceptual ownership of art ... ... this opportunity to show was courtesy of an invitation from the curator of #theotherartfair ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #newyorkart #nycart #installationart #abstractart #textbasedart #newmediaart #contemporaryart #modernart #ultracontemporaryart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #postconceptualart #newgenresart #conceptualart #neoconceptualart #artfairs #activistart #artasactivism #protestart #rosalindkrauss #barbarakruger #kayrosen #chicagogalleries #maineartist #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
We Could Have Been Lovers But Then You Were Gone ... 2021 ... oil stick on canvas ... 84 in x 56 in ... 213.4 cm x 142.2 cm ... the piece is an early example of the artist's evolving personal writing system ... language-based semiotic yet abstract lines and curves in the artist's loose handwriting ... in its dozens of layers of overlapping text-symbols and sentences, the piece sets forth a fully cohesive substantive narrative referencing an imagined story of nature, natural law, and aspects of human nature across cultures and time ... ... the piece showed in 2021 in west palm beach courtesy @artsandconversations and engage projects. . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #oilpainting #gesturalpainting #actionpainting #abstractpainting #textbasedart #postconceptualart #personalwritingsystems #scrawlpaintings #minimalistart #postminimalistart #cytwombly #jacksonpollock #christopherwool #robertrauschenberg #jasperjohns #bricemarden #abstractexpressionism #minimalism #postminimalism #postmodernart #bipolarartist #maineartist #stanfordlawyer #artsandconversations #engageprojectsgallery #westpalmbeachart #chicagoart #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Everything You Wanted And Yet Still ... 2023 ... Artist's text in oil paint and brush over artist's unfiltered photograph of skies over Maine coast ... varnished canvas ... 72 in x 48 in ... ... conceived 2018, first execution 2018, destroyed by artist 2019, final execution as seen here 2023 ... ... the piece may be seen as further experimentation with meaning-making and meaning loss between makers, viewers, and, in this piece, certain notions and assumptions relating to materiality ... ... see bio and links for more information about related pieces and language-image experiments ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #oilpainting #textbasedart #postminimalistart #contemporaryart #ultracontemporaryart #ultracontemporaryartist #minimalistart #newmediaart #edruscha #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #kayrosen #chicagoart #maineartist #maineart #chicagogallery #chicagogalleries #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #mentalillnessart #letmesaythisaboutthat #lookatwhatwehavecreated #everythingyouwantedandyetstill #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Tell Me No Truths (Better A Restful Delusion) ... 2023 ... oil stick texts in English over mathematical equations in brushed Chinese calligraphy ink on canvas ... ~ 88 x 58 inches ... the piece references (1) scientific and mathematical models from multiple countries predicting cause, effect, and species adaptation to changes across generations globally as well as (2) human conceptions of complicity, culpability, and consequences across those generations. . . #engageprojectsgallery engage projects gallery chicago . . #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalism #textbasedart #newgenresart #colortheory #math #science #mathart #scienceart #edwardabbey #artasactivism #artivism #socialcommentary #socialcriticism #chicagogalleries #maineartist #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #letmesaythisaboutthat #lookatwhatwehavecreated #tellmenotruths #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
After The Failure The Beauty Is In The Repair ... 2023 ... oil painted text by artist on unfiltered photograph by artist on canvas ... 68 x 48 in ... 172.5 x 122 cm ... ... . @engageprojects gallery chicago . . . #postconceptualart #postminimalism #postmodernart #postminimalistart #neoconceptualart #ultracontemporaryart #ultracontemporaryartist #minimalism #minimalistart #textbasedart #textbasedartist #edruscha #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #markrothko #sugimotohiroshi #artnow #artdaily #dailyart #chicagoart #newyorkart #losangelesart #nycart #laart #chicagoartist #maineartist #letmesaythisaboutthat #lookatwhatwehavecreated #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
... photos of the pieces at the show ... This Is Text Based Art ... @engageprojects ... @artforum must see ... @moussemagazine curated selection ... ... . . #thisistextbasedart #adamdaleywilson #postconceptualart #textbasedart #oilpainting #fineart #newmediaart #arthistory #arttheory #artcriticism #cytwombly #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #christopherwool #melbochner #edruscha #glennligon #kayrosen #adampendleton #lawrenceweiner #josephkosuth #johnbaldessari #brucenauman #jasperjohns #letmesaythisaboutthat #lookatwhatwehavecreated #shoulditmakeyouthinkorshoulditjustlookprettyonyourwall #bipolarartist #stanfordlawyer #adamdaleywilsonart
... gallery views ... This Is Text Based Art ... april 14 - may 26 ... engage projects gallery chicago ... . @engageprojects @artforum must see @moussemagazine selected @expochicago aligned . #thisistextbasedart #adamdaleywilson #arttheory #arthistory #postconceptualart #minimalistart #postminimalism #postmodern #ultracontemporaryart #dailyart #artnow #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #cytwombly #christopherwool #glennligon #edruscha #adampendleton #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #rosalindkrauss #appropriationart #kayrosen #letmesaythisaboutthat #lookatwhatwehavecreated #somefeelingsandthoughtsillhaveanysecond #shoulditmakeyouthinkorshoulditjustlookprettyonyourwall #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
... more re last night ... video of the performance soon ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago solo show THIS IS TEXT BASED ART @artforum must see @moussemagazine curatorial selection in alignment with the international @expochicago this weekend ... ... . #thisistextbasedart #adamdaleywilson #engageprojectsgallery #artforum #mousse #textbasedart #arttheory #arthistory #postconceptualart #ultracontemporaryart #contemporaryart #chicagogalleries #chicagoartist #maineartist #bipolarartist #emergingartist #artbrut #outsiderartist #selftaughtartist #activistart #artasactivism #letmesaythisaboutthat #lookatwhatwehavecreated #shoulditmakeyouthinkorshoulditjustlookprettyonyourwall #newmediaart #oilpainting #newgenresart #neoconceptualart #adamdaleywilsonart #somefeelingsandthoughtsillhaveanysecond
🖤💙🖤 From @text.based.artist.adam.wilson ... "my first two solo shows, 2021 and now 2023, both @artforum 'must see' ... thanks @engageprojects for both shows ... this one opens with performance art and a monograph of the global histories and possibilities of text-based art ... works at the show include oil paintngs, new media works, works on paper, and personal writing system works ... ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago" . . #contemporaryart #ultracontemporaryart #postconceptualart #postminimalism #postmodernart #newgenresart #newmediaart #digitalart #oilpainting #fineart #largeart #edruscha #barbarakruger #jennyholzer #lawrenceweiner #glennligon #johnbaldessari #kayrosen #adampendleton #melbochner #christopherwool #richardprince #josephkosuth #robertrauschenberg #cytwombly #jasperjohns #artforum #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson #thisistextbasedart
... first 2 solo shows, 2021 and now 2023, both @artforum 'must see' ... this one opens with performance art + a monograph on the global histories and possibilities of text-based art ... works at the show include oil paintngs, new media works, drawings, and text-abstract personal writing system works ... ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #contemporaryart #ultracontemporaryart #postconceptualart #postminimalism #postmodernart #newgenresart #newmediaart #digitalart #oilpainting #fineart #largeart #edruscha #barbarakruger #jennyholzer #lawrenceweiner #glennligon #johnbaldessari #kayrosen #adampendleton #melbochner #christopherwool #richardprince #josephkosuth #robertrauschenberg #cytwombly #jasperjohns #artforum #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson #thisistextbasedart
... apr 14 ... 2nd solo ... @engageprojects during @expochicago ... incl this new bw oil ... ~ 44 x 58 in ... the art history and future of text based art is super cool ... so at the show: 10 oils incl --- bw geometric minimalist texts ... gestural bw text-abstracts ... oil texts on color new media ... experimental text-abstract drawings ... performance art creation of a 10 foot semiotic-abstract text live at 730p opening night ... and a scholarly monograph i've been researching on the broader art histories, plural, of text based art across cultures and continents ... the show presents a cumulative argument that text based art is at once intellectual, philosophical, universal, and off the rails cool ... ... ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #contemporaryart #modernart #ultracontemporaryart #textbasedart #postconceptualart #postmodernart #postminimalism #oilpainting #fineart #jennyholzer #edruscha #christopherwool #barbarakruger #glennligon #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #josephkosuth #melbochner #adampendleton #kayrosen #jasperjohns #experimentalart #artandlanguage #arthistory #neoconceptualart #newgenresart #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson #letmesaythisaboutthat #somefeelingsandthoughtsillhaveanysecond
... the hallway studio ... portland maine ... some pieces going to chicago for the show ... @engageprojects april 14 ... during @expochicago ... ... as performance art / a happening I'll be making a 10 foot tall personal writing system text / abstract piece live during the opening reception ... ... ... . @engageprojects . This Is Text Based Art opening 4/14/23 . EXPO Chicago Weekend . #postconceptualart #contemporaryart #modernart #minimalistart #textbasedart #artwithwords #oilpainting #fineart #largeart #expochicago #artfairs #chicagogallery #chicagogalleries #maineartist #contemporaryartcollector #modernartcollector #contemporaryartcurators #artdealers #artnow #artadvisor #edruscha #jennyholzer #barbarakruger #christopherwool #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #kayrosen #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Copper mountain #textbasedart #textart #textbasedartist #wordsinart #postconceptualart #minimalistart #modernart #contemporaryart #postmodernart #ultracontemporaryart #ultracontemporaryartist #expressionism #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #melbochner #jacksonpollock #christopherwool #glennligon #adampendleton #basquiat #fineart #cytwombly #joanmitchell #wordart #wordartist #willemdekooning #adamwilson #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
If It Has A Title It Is Art With Words ... 2022 ... oil pen, ink, crayon, pencil ... 56 in x 58 in ... ten layers, four mediums, six tools, ten minutes ... rare use of brush to write ... loved it ... personal writing system... every mark = semantic narrative text re references + notions about text-art theories I keep thinking about ... lots of new stuff here ... but enough about the words look what they've become ... . @engageprojects engage projects gallery chicago . . #textbasedart #textart #textbasedartist #wordsinart #postconceptualart #minimalistart #modernart #contemporaryart #postmodernart #ultracontemporaryart #ultracontemporaryartist #expressionism #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #melbochner #jacksonpollock #christopherwool #glennligon #adampendleton #basquiat #fineart #cytwombly #joanmitchell #wordart #wordartist #willemdekooning #adamwilson #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
New Cave Painting No. ____, 2022, oil stick, charcoal, and crayon on canvas, 62.25 x 64.75 in ... comprised entirely of text … executed in under ten minutes in approximately fifteen layers … … the piece offers three related thesis statements --- written in full sentences here but illegible due to overlapping --- towards new definitions, histories, and theories of text-based art, here focusing on the relationships between (a) historic cave paintings; (b) text and word-symbols as ‘figurative or visual sound art’; and (c) modern-day language and text-symbols in art in cultures across the world --- not just the US or EU --- as to what ‘art with words’ may be starting to become --- and its potential meaning beyond aesthetics into broader spaces … … Whew, that’s a lot of theory. For now the bottom line is, those of us who love it know it --- text based art is super cool. Like a special kind of cool. Let’s see if a little research-backed theory can help explain why … … . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects #engageprojectsgallery . . #newcavepainting #cavepaintings #textbasedart #soundart #textart #textartist #cytwombly #jacksonpollock #joanmitchell #robertrauschenberg #abstractpainting #minimalism #postmodern #contemporaryart #modernart #abstractexpressionism #gesturalart #actionpainting #arttheory #contemporaryartcurators #modernartcurators #chicagoart #arthistory #bipolarartist #mentalillnessart #stanfordlawyer #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Should It Make You Think Or Should It Just Look Pretty On Your Wall ... conceived 2014, executed 2017, spray paint, enamel, and ink on canvas, 44 in x 40 in, 111.8 cm x 76.6 cm ... artist's collection ... when it all just started tumbling out in 2014 after the medicine change this was one of the clearest first three ... visually referencing Christopher Wool and substantively referencing Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . #shoulditmakeyouthink #letmesaythisaboutthat #lookatwhatwehavecreated #postconceptualart #minimalistart #postmodernart #christopherwool #barbarakruger #jennyholzer #melbochner #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #adampendleton #glennligon #kayrosen #textbasedart #textart #textartist #wordart #artwithtext #artwithwords #bipolarartist #bipolarart #mentallillnessart #outsiderartist #adamdaleywilson #adamwilson #adamdaleywilsonart #adamwilsonart
First Public Issue + Public Discourse Installation, New York City, November 2017, mixed media, 12 x 12 x 12 feet ... on a wall at @theotherartfair ... I put up 256 questions and observations about public issues in culture, society, ethics, and morals to encourage and contribute to public debates ... the piece was accompanied by performance art and became an art happening (loosely, a type of interactive performance art) as discourse developed and continued for three days with members of the public, from all kinds of backgrounds, and of all ages, 18 to 83 ... ... visually referencing Jenny Holzer, Ellsworth Kelly, Gerhard Richter, Piet Mondrian, and Robert Swain ... and substantively referencing Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer again... see related post at the start of this feed ... the next piece was in 2018 also in New York City ... the next in the series is coming as soon as I can find a wall ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . thank you to @theotherartfair and its team for this chance back in 2017 . . #installationart #installationartist #artinstallation #postconceptualart #minimalistart #textbasedart #textart #wordart #textartist #artandlanguage #newyorkart #nycart #brooklynart #ceaseanddesistart #letmesaythisaboutthat #lookatwhatwehavecreated #contemporaryartcollector #contemporaryartcuratrors #modernartcolletor #modernartcollectors #jennyholzer #barabrakruger #lawrenceweiner #johnbaldessari #josephkosuth #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilsonartist #adamdaleywilson
This is Text Based Art: entirely of language, in layers of my handwriting ... I think text gives inquiry into rules of lines and curves ... it brings structure to gestural marks, not just to language and meaning ... ... this piece, untitled, oil stick on bristol, 24 in x 18 in, conceptually references #cytwombly and visually references #gesturalism and #actionpainting ... ... each line and curve is a letter in a word in a phrase that is the illegible title ... ... it is part of my body of work that is an emerging personal writing system ... ... I write short essays about the above idea of text as inquiry into the rules of lines and curves; contact @engageprojects gallery in Chicago or read the essays via adamdaleywilson.com, @medium, or elsewhere ... ... . . . #textbasedart #textbased #textart #textbasedartist #postconceptualart #postmodernart #adamdaleywilson #adamdaleywilsonartist #adamdaleywilsonart #bipolarartist #bipolarart #outsiderart #outsiderartist #selftaughtartist #personalwritingsystem #personalwritingsystems #textbasedartasrulesforlinesandcurves
Public Debate No. 4, Should There Be New Lines Between Innocence And Intent ... 2022, oil stick on bristol, 24 in x 18 in ... ... the work is comprised entirely of semantic text, and as with similar pieces in this body of work, or series, the text begins to answer the question ... ... . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #conceptualart #postconceptualart #modernart #contemporaryart #minimalistart #postmodernart #postminimalistart #oilpainting #expressionism #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #expressionism #abstractpainting #drawings #worksonpaper #cubism #surrealistart #art_dailydose #dailyart #artnow #prints #limitededition #artreview #artreport #oilstick #textart #socialcommentary #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Miss America An Heiress No More ... alt title for today: We All Have Our Fourths Of July ... 2022 ... 72 x 60 in ... rephotographed and altered images by artist of historical photographs, in montage / collage, of King (top), Kent State (bottom), and heirs and heiresses born into things like the Kleenex tissue fortune as depicted in their environment by cultural anthropologist Slim Aarons ... the work including the text and title have over 50 references and contradictory meanings ... . . engage projects gallery chicago @engageprojects . . #conceptualart #postconceptualart #photooftheday #photomontage #photographyart #photocollage #contemporaryart #modernart #contemporaryartcollectors #artreview #artreport #artsy #artistoftheday #artprocess #artcritic #modernartcurator #contemporaryartcurator #chicagogallery #maineartist #newmediaart #slimaarons #terryoneill #appropriationart #fairuse #rephotography #richardprince #johnbaldessari #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Untitled (To Use, Of Use, Been Used, Plus Twenty More) ... 2022 ... Oil on Canvas ... 86 x 60 in ... see related prior work posted about a year ago ... ... . @engageprojects gallery chicago . . #postmodernart #postminimal #postsconceptualart #textbasedart #textbased #postpostminimalism #postpostmodern #contemporaryart #conteporarypainting #contemporaryartist #bodyofworkproject #oilpainting #contemporaryartcurator #modernartcurator #chicagogalleries #maineartist #maineart #artworkoftheday #dailyart #artnow #kunst #christopherwool #barbarakruger #minimalistart #loveminimalism #ig_underground #typographyart #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
... ... Strut ... ... courtesy @adamdaleywilson ... ... 2022 ... ... 54 x 54 in ... . . ENGAGE Projects Gallery Chicago . . #artworkoftheday #photooftheday #artofinstagram #instaart #instaphoto #california #losangeles #sixties #civilrights #civilrightsmovement #hollywood #albumart #instacool #kunst #igers #artreport #dailyart #dailyartwork #ig_underground #igerschicago #iglosangeles #miamiart #westpalmbeachart #newyorkart #chicagoart #digitalart #newmediaart #bipolarartist #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
... ... Strut ... ... 2022, oil painted text and oil stick scrawl on montage created from altered rephotographed images, on canvas, 54 x 54 in ...138 x 138 cm ... ... ... approx. seven material layers and thirty art history, pop culture, historical, social justice, and first amendment layers of references, relations, connections, and juxtapositions ... ... text is in my "lithium signature" ... see prior posts ... ... . @engageprojects Chicago ... additional works currently showing @artsandconversations Palm Beach . . #conceptualart #postconceptualart #newgenresart #photographyart #photomontage #appropriationart #appropriation #fairuse #slimaarons #terryoneill #associatedpress #newyorktimes #photocollage #conceptualartist #contemporaryartcollector #modernartcollector #contemporaryartcurator #modernartcurator #artcritic #artcriticism #1963 #hollywood #laart #californiaart #alabamaart #socialjusticeart #politicalart #ceaseanddesistart #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Look At What We Have Created, conceived 2016, executed 2020, oil.on canvas, 7.5 feet x 5.5 feet, 88 in x 66 in, courtesy @artsandconversations gallery and @engageprojects gallery, in Palm Beach through February 28 . . . . . ENGAGE Projects Gallery Chicago . Arts and Conversations Gallery West Palm Beach . . #conceptualart #textbasedart #chicagoart #palmbeachart #westpalmbeachart #contemporaryart #modernart #oilpainting #fineart #postconceptualart #christopherwool #contemporaryartcollector #modernart #modernartcollector #miamiart #palmbeach #palmbeachgallery #artsandconversations #engageprojectsgallery #kunst #igers #artworkoftheday #dailyart #artcurator #artreview #adamdaleywilsonart #adamdaleywilson
Engage Projects show is almost finished being installed…stunning! #artsandconversations #engageprojectsgallery #adamdaleywilsonart #studio1608wpb
I Forgot That I Should Care ... 2021 ... oil text over rephotograph detail of digital image ... of rephotograph detail of magazine image ... of retouched staged commercial photograph ... used for years to bait children. So sue me. . Marlboro Country by way of Prince . . ENGAGE Projects Gallery Chicago . . #postsconceptualart #contemporaryart #appropriationart #newmediaart #contemporaryartcollector #youngcollector #artcollector #textbasedart #kunst #igers #artworkoftheday #photooftheday #instaart #artasactivism #richardprince #appropriationart #socialcommentary #avantgarde #artcurator #artdealing #artdealer #advertisingart #contemporaryartcurator #socialjustice #modernartcurator #popart #fairuse #stanfordlawyer #adamdaleywilson #adamdaleywilsonart
