Today, Hammons, who is 74, occupies the singular role of being one of the most sought - after and
inaccessible of all living artists — he has refused exclusive representation by an art dealer, and though his work is in the collections of most major American museums, he mostly turns down invitations to exhibit it.
Not exact matches
Collaborating with Hong Kong
artist Ryan San and art platform ART ONE, Carmen Chan created a series
of acrylic canvas which aims at encouraging buyers and art appreciators
of all levels to carry the hand - painted Art Clutches with the aim to use these to break the preconception
of inaccessible art and promote touchable art in daily
life.
The exhibition highlights the political dialogue inherent in the
artist's artistic interventions — from his concern for the extreme plight
of the homeless, his interest in direct community engagement, his belief that we should expand our
lived experience
of a city into its underground and other
inaccessible spaces, and his commentary on development and socioeconomic stratification.
In keeping with the mystery surrounding this movement, where the
living women
artist - activists highlight the dead women
artists they've chosen as aliases, Coyne and Grove, themselves female
artists, are lobbying to sell the works in this series to museums with an accompanying frame that is empty, so that the photograph they have taken
of the
living Guerrilla Girl, which will remain
inaccessible in her lifetime, can go into the frame when she dies.
The collective Don't Follow the Wind, whose
inaccessible, Fukushima - based 2015 group exhibition has been written about before in these pages, is now made accessible via A Walk in Fukushima, 2016 — 17, a 360 - degree video experience
of what has been, since the 2011 nuclear - plant disaster, an uninhabitable area, with crafty headsets made in collaboration with
artist Bontaro Dokuyama and three generations
of a Japanese family who
live in a zone deemed «safe to
live» by the government but still subject to restrictions due to its proximity to a radioactive locale.
Michael Straus, Chairman, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts «Sharon Louden has invaluably gathered together in this book an exceptionally diverse range
of artists» experiences in order to illustrate, in a manner otherwise
inaccessible, the inherent tensions that
artists face in constantly balancing their drive to devote core time and energy to creating new work and their wish to share that work with the world with the complexities, as well as the joys,
of their personal and family
lives.»