THIS IS TEXT BASED ART
April 14 - May 26, 2023
“Text-based art holds for me the chance to connect ideas and concepts that are usually separated by conventional boundaries in our prevailing methods of thinking. My paintings explore the ambiguities and possible interpretations of what is, and what could be.” — Adam Daley Wilson
ENGAGE Projects is thrilled to announce THIS IS TEXT BASED ART, a solo show by Adam Daley Wilson. The gallery walls will be covered in towering large-format oil paintings that use semiotic concepts as a means of exploring ideas about the meaning of objective and subjective human theories, from evolution to psychiatry to social justice. In alignment with EXPO’s Art After Hours on April 14th from 6:00 - 9:00pm, join us at ENGAGE Projects for the opening and a performance by Daley Wilson at 7:30pm in which the artist will create a large-scale oil stick painting using his personal writing system from start to finish in the gallery.
An artist, attorney, and mental health advocate, Daley Wilson makes work that is marked by unusual and unique connections between things and ideas impacting our human species and beyond. Ranging from precise oil-painted texts to scrawling oil stick text-abstractions, Daley Wilson experiments with a high-contrast aesthetic to examine gray areas of accountability, ethics, and morality. His works can be separated into two categories of text-based art: personal writing system works that, in addition to their narratives, explore the lines between abstraction and language, and formal works that take linear or geometric approaches to text-based art. In all of them, the artist attempts to “connect ideas and concepts that are usually separated by conventional boundaries in our prevailing methods of thinking.”
Artforum Must See*
Featured in Mousse Magazine
Click below to read Adam Daley Wilson's studio research paper for more context about text based art.
An artist, attorney, and mental health advocate, Daley Wilson makes work that is marked by unusual and unique connections between things and ideas impacting our human species and beyond. Ranging from precise oil-painted texts to scrawling oil stick text-abstractions, Daley Wilson experiments with a high-contrast aesthetic to examine gray areas of accountability, ethics, and morality. His works can be separated into two categories of text-based art: personal writing system works that, in addition to their narratives, explore the lines between abstraction and language, and formal works that take linear or geometric approaches to text-based art. In all of them, the artist attempts to “connect ideas and concepts that are usually separated by conventional boundaries in our prevailing methods of thinking.”
Artforum Must See*
Featured in Mousse Magazine
Click below to read Adam Daley Wilson's studio research paper for more context about text based art.
Just Who Has The Illness Of The Mind, 2023
oil on canvas
52 x 43 in 132.1 x 109.2 cm
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oil on canvas
52 x 43 in 132.1 x 109.2 cm
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Some Feelings And Thoughts I Have Every Second, 2023
oil on canvas with ink text layers
59 x 43 in 149.9 x 109.2 cm
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oil on canvas with ink text layers
59 x 43 in 149.9 x 109.2 cm
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It Appears We Are, 2021
oil painted text on photograph by artist on canvas
46 x 70 in 116.8 x 177.8 cm
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oil painted text on photograph by artist on canvas
46 x 70 in 116.8 x 177.8 cm
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If It Has A Title It Is Art With Words, 2022
oil stick, ink, and crayon on canvas
57 x 56 in 144.8 x 142.2 cm
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oil stick, ink, and crayon on canvas
57 x 56 in 144.8 x 142.2 cm
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Species Anosodiaphoria, 2023
oil on canvas with ink text layers
55 x 41 in 139.7 x 104.1 cm
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oil on canvas with ink text layers
55 x 41 in 139.7 x 104.1 cm
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God She Was A Handsome Man, 2023
oil stick, charcoal, and spray paint
57 x 48 in 144.8 x 121.9 cm
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oil stick, charcoal, and spray paint
57 x 48 in 144.8 x 121.9 cm
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All The Pretty Pictures Make Me Nothing Without You, 2022
oil painted text on rephotograph of new media on canvas
38 x 70 in 96.5 x 177.8 cm
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oil painted text on rephotograph of new media on canvas
38 x 70 in 96.5 x 177.8 cm
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