Postscript:

Writing After Conceptual Art

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art featured the work of over fifty artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language. The exhibition included paintings, sculpture, installation, video, and works on paper from the 1960s to the present that raise questions about how we read, look at, hear, and process language today. Postscript explored the field of literature known as “conceptual writing,” contrasting it directly to the field of contemporary art, and therefore offering new insights into the meaning of both literature and art. Postscript was the first exhibition to examine the work of conceptual writing, investigating the roots of the movement in the art of the 1960s and 70s and presenting contemporary examples of text-based art practices.

Artists and writers featured in the exhibition include: Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976), Sol LeWitt (b. 1928-2007), Andy Warhol (b. 1928-1987), Carl Andre (b. 1935, Quincy, Massachusetts), Fiona Banner (b. 1966, Liverpool, United Kingdom), Erica Baum (b. 1961, New York, New York), Derek Beaulieu (b. 1973, Montreal), Caroline Bergvall (b. 1962, Hamburg, Germany), Jen Bervin (b. 1972, Iowa), Christian Bök (b. 1966, Toronto), Pavel Buchler (b. 1952), Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937, Lübeck, Germany), Tim Davies (b. 1972) & Robert Fitterman (b. 1959, St. Louis, Missouri), Monica de la Torre (b. Mexico City), Craig Dworkin (b. 1969, Bloomington, Indiana), Tim Etchells (b. 1962, Stevenage, United Kingdom), Ryan Gander (b. 1976, Chester, United Kingdom), Kenneth Goldsmith (b. 1961, Freeport, New York), Dan Graham (b. 1942, Urbana, Illinois), Alexandra Grant (b. 1973, Fairview Park, Ohio), James Hoff (b. 1975, Fort Wayne, Indiana), Glenn Ligon (b. 1960, New York), Tan Lin (b. 1957, Seattle), Gareth Long (b. 1979, Toronto), Helen Mirra (b. 1970, Rochester, New York), Jonathan Monk (b. 1969, Leicester, United Kingdom), João Onofre (b. 1976, Lisbon, Portugal), Michalis Pichler (b. 1980, Berlin), Paolo Piscitelli (b. 1971, Italy), Vanessa Place (b. 1968), Seth Price (b. 1973, Jerusalem), Kay Rosen (b. 1973, Corpus Christi, Texas), Joe Scanlan (b. 1961, Columbus, Ohio), Frances Stark (b. 1967, Newport Beach), Joel Swanson (b. 1978, Chicago), Nick Thurston (b. 1982), Darren Wershler (b. 1966, Winnipeg, Canada), Ricardo Cuevas, Seth Kim-Cohen, Simon Morris, Michelle Gay, Eric Zboya, Kristina Lee Podesva, Michael Maranda, Dexter Sinister, Triple Canopy, Mark Amerika & Chad Mossbacher, and Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw.