I can think of
no other living artist whose work would make such perfect sense in that cavernous space.
Not exact matches
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent - Down Girl hasn't always received the same critical respect as the»90s
other major films about the Cultural Revolution, in part because it was harmfully assumed that director Joan Chen — who was and still is best known to the Western world for her playing Josie Packard in Twin Peaks — was not a «serious»
artist whose work deserved to be considered in the same breath as that of Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite) or Zhang Yimou (To
Live).
Troost and Stevenson are part of a large band of
artists, especially writers,
whose addiction to alcohol and
other drugs affect not only their
lives but also their writing.
At the same time, Stone represented, promoted and actively collected the work of a younger generation of
living artists, including Robert S. Neuman, Robert Arneson, Dennis Clive, Jack Whitten, Robert Baribeau, James Grashow, Robert Mallary, and Richard Hickam, among
others,
whose aesthetic tendencies suggest connections to the historical holdings of his gallery's collection.
Some
others who merit the scholar's effusive phrase: Dan Flavin,
whose misnamed «Minimalism» was actually marked by the brilliant use of high color, and Frank Stella, «our greatest
living artist.»
A Rail Curatorial Project lead by Phong Bui of the Brooklyn Rail, this exhibition focuses on
artists whose practice interrogates the contemporary social climate, including issues surrounding immigration, the environment, human rights and equality, foreign relations, among
others, ultimately drawing attention to art as it functions as a lens for better understanding the time in which we
live.
Glass Gallery Curated by Phong Bui and Rail Curatorial Projects A Rail Curatorial Project led by Phong Bui of the Brooklyn Rail, this exhibition focuses on
artists whose practice interrogates the contemporary social climate, including issues surrounding immigration, the environment, human rights and equality, foreign relations, among
others, ultimately drawing attention to art as it functions as a lens for better understanding the time in which we
live.
Its
other prongs include an
artist residency at her home in Sonoma, California, for
living artists in her collection, as well as scholars and curators
whose work extends the canon and relates to the
artists in her collection; sitting on the boards of museums like the Art Institute of Chicago; publishing critical scholarship, beginning with the 2016 book Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art; and collecting and gifting major works by black
artists to institutions.
Whether those absences be the figure of Trayvon Martin and
other African Americans
whose lives were stopped short at the hands of institutionalized racism, as evoked through Hammons's hood; the
artist's own body, coated in grease and pressed against paper to create silhouettes of his form in his early «bodyprint» series; or the bodies missing from behind the standing mics in Which Mike Do You Want to Be Like...?
Key figures within «No Wave», a short -
lived avant - garde scene in the late 70's in New York led by a collective of musicians, filmmakers and
artists, Dick and Goldin met during this time and became
life - long friends
whose work richly influenced each
other.
And though gentrification has caused some
artists to leave the city, for
others whose work addresses issues of the digital age San Francisco is an increasingly compelling place to
live.
A Rail Curatorial Project led by Phong Bui of the Brooklyn Rail, OCCUPY MANA focuses on
artists whose practice interrogates the contemporary social climate, including issues surrounding immigration, the environment, human rights and equality, foreign relations, among
others, ultimately drawing attention to art as it functions as a lens for better understanding the time in which we
live.
Wright
lives and works in Glasgow — home to one of the
other shortlisted
artists, Lucy Skaer, and
whose art school has been the training ground for legions of previous Turner prize winners and nominees, including Douglas Gordon and Simon Starling.
For example, an entire exhibition - within - the - exhibition, «Dios es marica» (God Is Queer), organized by Peruvian curator Miguel A. López and including self - portraits by Mexico's Nahum Zenil and Franco - era Spanish drag
artist José Pérez Ocaña, among
others, occupies a central position in the biennial's trajectory, as do the samplings of comparable work by São Paulo — based
artist Hudinilson Jr. and Peruvian philosopher and drag queen Giuseppe Campuzano,
whose ambitious Línea de vida / Museo Travesti del Perú (
Life's Timeline / Transvestite Museum of Peru), 2009 — 14, a fictional museum, is one of many things in the biennial «that don't exist» — yet.
They — along with many
other artists whose works could easily have fit in this exhibition — are vernacular cosmopolitans of a kind, moving in - between cultural traditions, and revealing hybrid forms of
life and art that do not have a prior existence within the discrete world of any single culture or language.
«Danger to The System» focuses on events highlighting
artists of color, queer, and
other marginalized intersections of
artists whose work deals with time, space, histories, new media, cultural diaspora, erasure, patriarchy, white supremacy, the internet, recorded and performed sound works,
live performance, and the intersectionality of histories, cultural trauma, healing strategies and the ever changing radical climate in America, 2016, as well as specifically Oakland, CA.
Among the main female protagonists that inspired this research are Balkis Sharara, Rifat Chadirji's wife who in 1979 carried copies of his works into and out of Abu Ghraib allowing him to author three of his seminal books while in the prison;
artist Nuha al - Radi
whose diaries of 1990/91 describe the dynamics in the
lives of Baghdad's people beyond the news coverage; an unknown young woman who stands out in the festivities of the gymnasium's 1990 new year concert; Fahrelnissa Zeid who was herself an
artist (most recently the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern) and the wife of the Iraqi Ambassador in London when Le Corbusier received a telegram confirming the approval of his first design proposal for Baghdad; poet Iman Mersal who paid a solidarity visit to Baghdad under siege in 1993; Zaha Hadid
whose architectural drawings influenced the imagination of architectural students in the 1990s; and
others.
Artists such as William Baziotes, Romare Bearden, Irene Rice - Pereira, Joan Snyder, and Mark Tobey are represented along with many other artists whose lives were touched by the financier, pioneering philanthropist, and patron of th
Artists such as William Baziotes, Romare Bearden, Irene Rice - Pereira, Joan Snyder, and Mark Tobey are represented along with many
other artists whose lives were touched by the financier, pioneering philanthropist, and patron of th
artists whose lives were touched by the financier, pioneering philanthropist, and patron of the arts.
Like several
other shows from the early 1990s, including Jeffrey Deitch's Post Human (1992), Kelley's experiment took its cue from the rise of «mannequin art,» a term he coined to describe
artists like Charles Ray, Kiki Smith, and Jonathan Borofsky,
whose life - size sculptures — not, in fact, all mannequins — evoked anxieties about the role of the human body in a time wrought by the AIDS epidemic, the growth of plastic surgery procedures, and advances in biotechnology.
She also bears witness to the
lives of two people — an executioner and a trans
artist whose lives are intertwined within a small town in North India and with each
other through an informal history of labour, violence and death.
Yet, while Made in L.A. appeared as diverse and sprawling as the city
whose art it presented, it might also be argued that the bulk of the work on view extended four familiar (and familial) lineages of Los Angeles art that were well represented in «PST»: hard - edge abstraction (represented here in paintings by Brian Sharp and Alex Olson and painterly objects by Lisa Williamson and Brenna Youngblood), found - object assemblage (in the work of Liz Glynn, Ry Rocklen, Henry Taylor, and Erika Vogt, among
others), eclectic performance practices (including
live pieces by Math Bass, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, and Ashley Hunt, as well as the collective Slanguage's array of community - based works at LAXART), and film and video projects that pointed, more or less, to the looming shadow of Hollywood (e.g., Miljohn Ruperto's Seven and Five, 2012, which includes multiple remakes of a 1961 episode of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Dan Finsel's The Space Between You and Me, 2012, for which the
artist restaged Farrah Fawcett and Keith Edmier's decade - old roll in the clay).
MC I have filled my
life with
other artists whose work I really love.
The focus of the collection was one way to ask when and why once did it come to pass long ago so long ago that I would become an
artist, and how did this original moment mingle with the original moment of developing
other more serious personal bad misdemeanors, although in fact coming from an environment where such aesthetic values did not play any role, instead everything was perfect to develop a good person
whose life duration is defined by good events.