Al Díaz

Van Der Plas Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Al Díaz entitled Words, Object, Notions.

Words, Objects, Notions is an exhibit of Al Díaz’s latest text based work. The exhibition includes paintings, collages on paper, and sculptures. For over a decade, Díaz has been utilizing wet paint signage used by the MTA to construct a constrained alphabet of 24 characters. With this alphabet, Díaz generates humorous, sarcastic, pithy, and sometimes poignant writings, not unlike the well known SAMO© graffiti he co-created with Jean Michel Basquiat in 1978.