Word and Image
An Online Exhibition
About the Call
Site:Brooklyn is pleased to open submissions for "Word and Image”, a juried exhibition examining how artists navigate the complex relationship between written language and visual representation. Beginning with pictograms and continuing through the illuminated manuscripts of medieval scribes, where text and imagery merged into unified sacred objects, to the revolutionary typographic experiments of Dadaist collages, artists have long understood that text and image play off and interact with one another. Modern innovations have deepened these investigations: Jenny Holzer's LED installations transform public spaces into sites of textual encounter, while Barbara Kruger's bold interventions demonstrate how typography can function as both image and ideological weapon.
This exhibition seeks to showcase contemporary artists who continue this conversation, demonstrating how text-image relationships generate new forms of meaning and visual experience. We are looking for works across all mediums that highlight artists who treat text and image as related forces, allowing their interplay to drive conceptual and aesthetic development.
About the Juror
Caroline Goldstein is currently the Managing Editor for Artnet. Goldstein has written art news for W magazine, Muckrack and other digital magazines. Goldstein worked at Osmos Gallery and International Print Center NY. She graduated from Sotheby's Institute of Art The Graduate School of Art and Its Markets in London and NYC, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University
Dates
Call Announcement: July 18, 2025
Final Submission Deadline: August 25, 2025 11:59 PM MT
Online Exhibition: September 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025