Artists allow viewers to read between lines F or some years now, mainstream artists have incorporated text into their artwork, and these incursions of language into art have been as diverse as Ed Ruscha's sign paintings and the scrawly diaristic inscriptions of Hollis Sigler's confessional works. Most of the artists represented here use words in the traditional fashion, allowing them to retain their meaning more or less and often contrasting these meanings with images. The same could be said for a painting, or in the case of Jason Salavon's work, a video installation.
S ometimes it is the experience of being an outsider that provides the impetus to make art.