Code Word Safe

Code Word Safe is a catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title at Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles on view from October 19 - December 6 2019. Artists in the exhibition include: Oscar David Alvarez, Alexandra Grant, Kyla Hansen, David Karwan, Erica Ryan Stallones and Josh Paul Thomas all of whom use text, symbols, graphics and body movements to subvert and to invent pathways of seeing and experiencing language.Code Word Safe is an exhibition of...
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Code Word Safe is a catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title at Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles on view from October 19 - December 6 2019. Artists in the exhibition include: Oscar David Alvarez, Alexandra Grant, Kyla Hansen, David Karwan, Erica Ryan Stallones and Josh Paul Thomas all of whom use text, symbols, graphics and body movements to subvert and to invent pathways of seeing and experiencing language.Code Word Safe is an exhibition of artists using text, symbols, body expressions, codes, and audio sequences to mutate, disguise, confuse or emphasize communication through visual or sound language. Code Word Safe brings together six Los Angeles based artists who use text, symbols and mixed media in their art works and performances to communicate social, political and personal messages that are spoken, painted, sewn and graphically produced.The title, Code Word Safe , relates to the idea that art can manifest in physical, mental and public spaces offering safe means for viewers to learn and enrich their lives powerfully and constructively.Under the study of semantics, the sub category pragmatics identifies words and language understood through context. The artists in Code Word Safe use pragmatics in different forms to facture creative and new paradigms of communicating through visual and spoken revelations.