Sentences with phrase «ferus gallery world»

Moses bounced around for a while, before landing in an MFA program at UCLA, where he met artist Craig Kauffman, who would become his best friend, and his entrance in the Ferus Gallery world.

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• Ed Paschke (1939 — 2004), neon - lit Chicago Pop artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), world - famous sculptor of elevated banality and gleaming toys Prema Murthy (b. 1969), Net - conscious media artist Sarah Morris (b. 1967), brainy geometric abstractionist and appropriationist Jennifer Rubell (b. 1970), food artist extraordinaire Tony Matelli (b. 1971), hyperrealistic sculptor of flora and aggressive fauna • Edward Kienholz (1927 — 1994), Ferus gallery co-founder, iconic Los Angeles artist Jack Goldstein (1945 — 2003), Pictures Generation star and looper of films Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959), Neo-Geo artist of lurid island pop Mark Dion (b. 1961), naturalist conceptualist and arch-cataloguer • Vito Acconci (b. 1940), seminal father of transgressive»70s performance art Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951), artist - turned - «Hurt Locker» director Ken Feingold (b. 1952), conceptualist sculptor of heads Robert Longo (b. 1953), wizard of charcoal and graphite, disturber of «Men in Cities» Mark Innerst (b. 1957), engineering - slanted landscape painter Brock Enright (b. 1976), postmodern pop - culture investigator David Salle (b. 1952), brainy Neo-Expressionist descendent of Picabia Annette Lemieux, lecturer of visual and environmental studies at Harvard Michele Zalopany, pastel Postmodernist • Dan Graham (b. 1942), sculptor of reflective / transparent psychological architecture R.H. Quaytman (b. 1961), literary - minded process painter of high intellectual wattage Cameron Rowland (b. 1988), conceptual found - object sculptor • Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), Neo-Expressionist godhead and Hollywood filmmaker Bill Saylor, sketchy maximalist and Harmony Korine collaborator Greg Bogin (b. 1965), post-Net minimalist

Best known for his lozenge - shaped plastic wall reliefs, or «bubbles,» Craig Kauffman was a major figure in the Southern Californian art world of the 1950s and»60s and part of the original stable of artists associated with the renowned Ferus Gallery.

The beloved Ferus Gallery, which was the first to show Warhol's soup cans and gave the world Llyn Foulkes, Robert Irwin and Ed Ruscha, among others, closed in 1966 after less than a decade due to lack of funds.

He was recognized almost immediately with solo - shows in 1959 - 60 at the now - iconic Ferus gallery, The Pasadena Museum of Art, and at the World's Fair of 1962 in Seattle.

Despite his Ferus Gallery credentials and considerable influence on the Los Angeles art world, a career - long thwarting of stylistic consistency may have rendered Llyn Foulkes and his work virtually unclassifiable.

He admits he «didn't know shit from Shinola about what was going on in the art world,» so he swallowed his pride and made Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston and Ed Moses — all young artists exhibiting with the now legendary Ferus Gallery — his teachers.

Building his career at the fabled Ferus Gallery on La Cienega Blvd that launched West Coast Pop Art with his enigmatic word paintings before moving on to become one of the world's leading artists renowned for his ultra-flat (long before there was a «Superflat») paintings of gas stations, snow - capped mountains, & soft focus silhouettes.

Focusing exclusively on art -, music - and culture - related movies, Arthouse Films («Where art and film collide») produces and / or distributes around 15 to 20 titles a year, from documentaries about specific artists (c: The Radiant Child) or other figures in the art world (Herb & Dorothy, on art collecting duo Herb and Dorothy Vogel) to in - depth looks at specific movements (Beautiful Losers, a tribute to the»90s DIY movement) or communities (The Cool School, about the Ferus Gallery and its role in bringing the L.A. art scene of age).

As one of the original Ferus Gallery artists in Los Angeles — which also included Ed Ruscha, Ken Price, Edward Kienholz, Dennis Hopper, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin and others — Billy Al Bengston and his peers shaped the Southern California art world.

She was also becoming well known in the California art world, with solo exhibitions at outlets like the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, both in 1957.

1962: Andy Warhol's first show anywhere in the world takes place at Ferus Gallery; his Campbell's Soup Cans paintings sell for $ 100 each.