Confuse the Issues: Art, Text, and Identity

Authors

Shannon Egan, Gettysburg CollegeFollow

Files

Document Type

Art Catalog

Description

Confuse the Issues: Art, Text, and Identity features text-based works by prominent contemporary artists of color who demonstrate the power of language. Not only are the words central to the compositions of each photograph, sculpture, and print, but they also provide expressions of identity, reflections on history, and calls to action. In reading both the linguistic and aesthetic narratives in the works on display, a viewer encounters stories that are at once critical and inclusive, verbal and visual, personal and political. The artists use assertive poetry, dynamic admonitions, and a clear naming of victims of police violence to question white privilege and incite change. The exchange of words in this exhibition may confuse the issues; nevertheless, the art speaks and demands that voices are heard.

Publication Date

Fall 2022

Publisher

Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College

City

Gettysburg, PA

Keywords

race, text-based art, social issues, fine art

Comments

Confuse the Issues: Art, Text, and Identity was on exhibition at the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College August 31st - December 10, 2022.

Recommended Citation

Egan, Shannon, "Confuse the Issues: Art, Text, and Identity" (2022). Schmucker Art Catalogs. 43.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/43