Text-based Artworks by Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner (born 1940) is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual Art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He has helped to develop many of the techniques used by the Conceptual and Installation artists who followed him into the art world. Below you will see his text-based work of art. The paintings play with words and present them to us in unexpected ways. For many of his paintings, Bochner uses the thesaurus to find words that have a similar meaning to the original word he chooses.