Not exact matches
Whatever position one takes on his worth
as an
artist, one thing is for sure: Fincher has come a long way since the early
days of his career, when he was known simply
as yet another television -
commercial and music - video wunderkind (along with, say, Spike Jonze, Mark Pellington, Michel Gondry, and others) taking some bold stabs at feature - film directing.
Often hinging on frameworks of social or
commercial labor, such
as the
day - to -
day activity of gallery staff, X-ray machines, or FedEx shipping operations, his photographic and sculptural works are each indexical products of transactions — whether initiated by, or exposed by the
artist.
Having grown up within the early
days of snowboarding lifestyle, Parillo began painting in the 1990s while working
as a
commercial artist in the action sports industry.
In 1927, he came to New York, where he attended night classes at the Art Students League and worked
as a
commercial artist by
day.
The main two floors of
commercial art galleries in ART BASEL were
as ever a seemingly infinite maze of contemporary art covering the full historic periods of «modern» art from historic photographs, cubism, constructivism, dada, fauvism, school of Paris
artists, to a dazzling array of present
day contemporary with all its exponential variety, it was easy to get lost amongst such abundance both on a physical level forgetting which direction you were heading in but also on a conceptual basis.
Philip Johnson asked to see me and we met at his office atop the Seagrams Building one morning in March 1966, Philip encouraged my work, Philip Johnson was enormously encouraging and inspiring and he suggested that when I made some paintings I show them to him and later that
day I got a job in an advertising agency - Diener, Hauser Greenthal in the Fuller Building on 57th streetand Madison Avenue; working
as a
commercial artist.