# Michael Winkler

michael winkler (Michael Joseph Winkler, born 1952 in Lima, Ohio) is a visual/conceptual artist. His work is based on a process which generates abstract visualizations of the alphabetic code underlying the spelling of words. His early artists' books: “Regular Words” (1982), “Word Art / Art Words (1985), “An Artist's Statement” (1986), “Equivalents” (1987), and “Extreme Measures” (1989) have become classics of the genre—included in major museum collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York., as well as being in the special collections of prominent university libraries.In addition, his work has appeared in publications ranging from the book, “Imagining Language” to the newsletter of a coalition of researchers studying the origins of language: The Pleistocene Coalition.His ongoing project has also produced drawings, paintings, and installations.