Sentences with phrase «american conceptual photographer»

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Though she began as a documentary photographer, Simpson is best known for her conceptual pairings of text fragments and studio photographs of anonymous African - American women draped in white shifts dresses.

Sophia Wallace is an American conceptual artist and photographer.

An American conceptual artist and photographer, Louise Lawler is well - known for her critical framing of art institutions.

Other highlights include Paul Kos's and William Leavitt's playful and irreverent forms of Conceptual art; diverse interpretations of Pop art by American painter Allan D'Arcangelo, British filmmaker and collage artist Jeff Keen, the Spanish photographer and object maker Darío Villalba; and new and iconoclastic forms of expression in the postwar period by Japanese artists Kazuyo Kinoshita, Atsuko Tanaka, Keiji Uematsu, and Eiji Uematsu.

Louise Lawler is an American conceptual artist and photographer born in 1947, well - known for her critical framing of art institutions.

She is currently working on an exhibition of photographer Gillian Laub's contemporary images of segregated proms and race based violence in the American South, a well as an exhibition of photographs by the American Conceptual artist, Sol LeWitt.

American photographer and film director with a net worth of $ 35 million, Cindy Sherman is an exceptional artist who has achieved fame through both her groundbreaking conceptual portraits as well as lucrative commercial collaborations with high fashion brands, makeup companies, and magazines.

Brandt had researched, curated, and written the exhibition catalogue for the first major museum retrospective of the work of the Chinese - American photographer and conceptual artist who gained a following in the 1980s as an «ambiguous ambassador» in a signature Mao suit.

González - Torres is a Cuban - born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain, whose work appears both at AIC and in Art AIDS America Chicago.

Felix Gonzalez - Torres, original name Félix González - Torres, (born Nov. 26, 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba — died Jan. 9, 1996, Miami, Fla., U.S.), Cuban - born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain.

Dennis Oppenheim was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer.

Five steps in, you're hit with the big names: Nan Goldin, an iconic American photographer whose images of urban nightlife in the 1970s and»80s offer a window onto society's darker margins (Goldin is a friend of Berger and one piece bears a personal inscription); Rashid Johnson, a fast - rising conceptual artist whose prismatic work mines the meaning of the black American identity; and, notably, Robert Mapplethorpe, in a rare self - portrait emblematic of the artist's confrontational beauty.

In 2015, the museum will shake things up with a thoughtful solo exhibition by Los Angeles - based conceptual photographer James Welling, whose ongoing Wyeth series takes inspiration from and pays homage to the 20th - century American artist.

More theoretically inclined Feminist artists of the late 1980s and 1990s included: the conceptual artist Mary Kelly, now Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose work borrows from both Marxism and psychoanalysis; the contemporary German photographer Katharina Sieverding, who uses make - up and face - painting to explore gender borders; the German multimedia artist Iza Genzken, noted for her assemblages of household objects; the American postmodernist Lynda Benglis, best - known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures; and the English conceptual Helen Chadwick (1953 - 96), noted for her feminist performances and installations, but perhaps best - known for photocopying her body next to dead animals.

Roni Horn, (born September 24, 1955, New York, New York, U.S.), American conceptual sculptor, installation artist, draftsman, and photographer well known for her Iceland - based body of work.

Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 — January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer

Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Cuban - born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor......

As a photographer and international award - winning conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas brings an unflinching eye to the world of advertising, its history or representation and the effects this representation has on individual and group identity, particularly with relation to the African - American experience.

Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and conceptual artist associated with the appropriation art of the early 1980s and the artists of «The Pictures Generation» such as Robert Longo, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and David Salle.

The son of the Chilean Surrealist painter Roberto Matta and American artist Anne Clark, Matta - Clark is known as a maverick of»70s New York, not only for his inventive, hands - on engagement with the city, but for the diversity of his work: He was a sculptor, draughtsman, photographer, filmmaker, performance artist, writer, conceptual artist, chef, and activist.