From the Modern Art Department:

"With the support of Clear Channel Outdoor, the Education Department of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announces the eleventh iteration of MODERN BILLINGS.

Using space from Clear Channel Outdoor as programming sites, Assistant Curators of Education Jesse Morgan Barnett and Tiffany Wolf Smith work with a variety of artists to situate imagery and text onto billboards, elements of the city that traditionally present commercial advertisements rather than cultural curiosities. For MODERN BILLINGS, artists place works into under-served communities along the periphery of downtown Fort Worth. These large-scale installations along Jacksboro Highway and the Lancaster corridor extend the reach of the Modern and the education department and provide an intervention opportunity for contemporary art in urban landscapes.

Information on this season and past presentations is available at www.themodern.org/modern-billings.

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For MODERN BILLINGS XIII, Stephen Lapthisophon presents a group of images reflecting on his past work, and influences and fragments from his writing and installations. Lapthisophon’ s work moves, touches, and records various states and contexts according to the situation offered. He is drawn to the idea of shifting contexts and changes in scale and time. These images span a number of years but are connected by questions of touch, mapping, directionality, and historical presence.

Stephen Lapthisophon (b. 1956) is an American artist, writer, and educator working in the field of conceptual art, critical theory, and disability studies. He lives and works in Dallas, Texas where he is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Titles and Site Locations

Writing Art Cinema

1410 Jacksboro Highway, Fort Worth TX 76164

Writing Art Cinema 1988-2010

6602 Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76112

The Naked City

1515 Jacksboro Highway, Fort Worth TX 76114

Studio Potato

6650 East Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth TX 76112

Gold Hands

5840 East Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth TX 76112

Toccare (Non) Toccare

2810 East Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth TX 76103"