Verbal imagery in art seems literal but may well be literary. The curator and artists of Ikkan Art Gallery’s exhibition, An Ambiguous Portrait of a Cunning Linguist, are internationally regarded.

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Blah-Blah-Blah by Mel Bochner

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Aug. 20, 1997 by On Kawara

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I Feel Most Coloured When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background by Glenn Ligon

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David Copperfield by Nicola Anthony

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