Symbols surround us everywhere, from the heart emoji we send in texts to the complex iconography in renaissance paintings. They're the visual shorthand that lets artists pack entire stories, emotions, ...

Gabriel Marquez has traveled a few roads during his art journey. It has taken him from abstract art to linear drawings that transform into paintings, as well as from El Paso to Seattle and back. This ...

SANTA BARBARA, California — Is it possible to define California’s aesthetic language? As a home to almost 40 million people, its artistic chatter takes on thousands of different tones. There’s the ...

Written language, and the layered meanings we gather from signs, symbols, and texts, are deeply tied into culture, history, and our place in the world. At UC Santa Barbara, these connections are the ...