The Dying Art Of Handwriting

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Kindergarten Elementary School Middle / High School NOW(after extensive use of computer keyboard)We live in an era where anything and everything is being performed by technology.

William Powhida, Mid-career Anxieties, 2016 January SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1234567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31PULSE Contemporary Art Fair • New York City, USA 2016

Jim Torok, I Am Feeling Quite Desperate, 2007 FebruarySUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 12 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 March FRI SAT THUSSUUNN MMOONN TTUUEE WED THU FRI SAT WED 34 125 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30 31 The Armory Show • New York City, USA 2016

Tracey Emin, One Thousand Drawings, 2009 KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art • Helsinki, Finland 2015

April One of the former patient’s workSUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Art Gallery at Historical Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum • Weston, WV, USA 2016

Pancakes & Booze Art Show • New York City, USA 2015 The Art Factory • Paterson, NJ, USA 2016MaySUN MON TUE WED THU 1234 FRI SAT 5 67 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 2728 29 30 31

Deborah Kass, Enough Already, 2014 PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Visual AIDS • New York City, USA 2016

June Jean-Michael Basquiat, Diagram of the Ankle, 1982 JulySUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 123 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2345678 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Art Gallery at The Yale University • New Haven, CT, USA 2016

Yury Nikiforov, Repairing the Destroyed Surface, 2008 August ERARTA Museum of Contemporary Art • Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2015SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 12345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Erich Winzel, Point A to Point B: This is how we WalkSeptember FRI SATSUN MON TUE WED THU 12345678910 11 12 13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 SONYA Exhibition: MERGE at The Candy Factory • Brooklyn, NY, USA 2015

ART15 KunstlerhMau. sBe•rgBhreamusen, Germany 2015 October SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1234567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

ACT Art Collection: Bruce Nauman, Violins/Violence, 1985 NoOvcetmobbeerr FRI SAT 34 SUN MON TUE WED THU 12 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30WESERBURG GALLERY: Art in Music exhibition • Bremen, Germany 2015

Amy Garas, You Are PerfectBraddock Park Art Festival • North Bergen, NJ, USA 2016 DecemberSUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1234567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

The American painter Charles E. Burchfield once said of handwriting:“Let the mind rule the writing not the eye…someone will decipher your hieroglyphics.”Whether impeccable cursive or illegible chicken scratch, an artist’s“hand” is never far from hieroglyphic. It is distinctive, expressive ofthe artist’s individuality—an art form in and of itself. “What the Handwriting Says About the Artist” by Vicky Gan