He discusses Pop Art's place in art history; his initial feelings about being considered a Pop artist; the influence of Los Angeles and its environment on his work; his feelings about English awareness of America; a discussion of his use of words as images; a discussion of the Standard Station as an American icon; a discussion of the notion of freedom as it is perceived as a Southern California phenomenon; how he sees himself in relation to the Los Angeles mural movement (L.A. Fine Arts Squad); the importance of communication to him; his relationship with the entertainment world in Los Angeles and its misinterpretation of him; his books; collaboration with Mason Williams on «Crackers;» his
approach toward conceiving an idea for paintings; personal feelings about the books that he has done; the importance of motion in his work; a discussion of the movies «Miracle» and «Premium;» his friendship with Joe Goode; his return from Europe and his studio in Glassell Park; his move to Hollywood in 1965; the problems of balancing the domestic life and the artistic life; his stain paintings and what he hopes to learn from using stains; a disscussion of bicentemial
exhibition at the L.A. County Museum: «Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties,» 1981; a discussion of the origin of L.A. Pop as an off shoot from the American realist tradition; his feelings about being considered a realist; the importance for him of elevating humble objects onto the canvas; a discussion on how he chooses the words he uses in his paintings; and his feelings about the
future direction of his work.
Traveled to Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas The
Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Grand National: Art from Britain, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway The Contemporary Figure, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago 2009 Accrochage, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Classified, Tate Britain, London DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool Donald Young Gallery, Chicago British Council Collection: The Third Dimension, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2008 The Vincent Award 2008, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London Donald Young Gallery, Chicago 2007 Five Works in Bronze: Darren Almond, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, William de Kooning, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York No Room for the Groom, Herald St. London 2006 Turner Prize
Exhibition, Tate Britain, London Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art, Tate Britain, London Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London Anne Chu, Gary Hill, Martin Puryear, Rebecca Warren, James Welling, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago flutter, The
approach, London If it didn't exist you'd have to invent: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles 2005 The British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery (catalogue) Trumpets of Justice, Counter Gallery, London Body: New art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery (1995); The Ottawa Art Gallery (2006); Oakville Galleries (2006); Edmonton Art Gallery (2006)(catalogue) 2004 Strange, I've seen that face before, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Sculpture: Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Collage, Bloomberg Space, London 2003 Rachel Harrison, Hirsch Perlman, Dieter Roth, Jack Smith, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Still Life, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
This event will consist of a 45 minute tour with the curator of the
Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York, an innovative, interactive exhibition that invites visitors to consider the big challenges facing New York City today and to imagine approaches and solutions for a better f
Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York, an innovative, interactive
exhibition that invites visitors to consider the big challenges facing New York City today and to imagine
approaches and solutions for a better
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