Adam Daley Wilson: THIS IS TEXT BASED ART
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 26th
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.”
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