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Bansky
✤ Banksy (1974 -- ) is a graffiti artist from Bristol, UK, whose artwork has appeared throughout London and other locations around the world. Despite this he carefully manages to keep his real name from the mainstream media. However, many newspapers assert that his real name is Robert or Robin Banks.
✤ Banksy, despite not calling himself an artist, has been considered by some
as talented in that respect; he uses his original street art form, often in
combination with a distinctive stencilling technique, to promote alternative
aspects of politics from those promoted by the mainstream media.
Gregory Euclide
✤ Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Twin Cities of
Minnesota. His attraction to the landscape originates from his experience of
growing up in the rural landscapes of Wisconsin. Free to roam from farm field
to forest edge, he developed an appreciation for authentic experience within
the natural landscape. The complexity and interconnectedness of the
environment had a profound impact on him as a child and would become the
content and conceptual framework for his future work.
Liza Lou
✤ Liza Lou is an artist whose work combines visionary, conceptual, traditional
and vernacular approaches to create a new kind of sculptural experience.
She is best known for her ambitious sculptural installations like Kitchen and
Backyard, which were each years in the making, and more recently for her
powerful sculptures of ecstatic figures
Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida
✤ The husband and wife team present a manufactured micro universe, part
Toy Story, part Candy Land, populated with diminutive humanoid characters
engaged in a range of ordinary and extraordinary activities. Since the project
inception in 2002, the series has grown to over 60 images.
Mark Ryden
✤ Mark Ryden received a BFA in 1987 from Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena. Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of
the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the
traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered
attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, "Pop
Surrealism", dragging a host of followers in his wake. Ryden has trumped the
initial surrealist strategies by choosing subject matter loaded with cultural
connotation.
Francisco Goya
✤ Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era. The subversive and imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso.
Louise Bourgeois
✤ Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied art at various
schools there, including the Ecole du Louvre, Académie des Beaux-Arts,
Académie Julian, and Atelier Fernand Léger. In 1938, she emigrated to the
United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New
York. Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s
she had turned her attention to sculptural work, for which she is now
recognized as a twentieth-century leader.
Judy Pfaff
✤ Judy Pfaff was born in London, England in 1946. She received a BFA from
Washington University, Saint Louis (1971) and an MFA from Yale University
(1973). Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making,
Pfaff creates exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave
landscape, architecture, and color into a tense yet organic whole
Kara Walker
✤ Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969. She received a BFA
from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and an MFA from the Rhode Island
School of Design in 1994. The artist is best known for exploring the raw
intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through her iconic, silhouetted
figures.
Frida Kahlo
✤ Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954; Magdalena Carmen Frieda
Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán. Perhaps best
known for her self-portraits, Kahlo's work is remembered for its "pain and
passion", and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in
Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists
for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.
Carmen Lomas Garza
✤ Carmen Lomas Garza was born in Kingsville, Texas. She is primarily known
for paintings and prints that draw upon her memories of growing up in this
small South Texas town.Throughout her career, it has been essential to
Lomas Garza that her art not only reaffirm Mexican American realities but
also bridge the conceptual gap between Chicano and Chicana culture and
those living outside of it. As a result, in both style and substance her work
celebrates the Mexican American experience by drawing on traditional
Latina and Latino sources that are visually accessible and by validating
styles of art that have been classified as “folk”.
Marina Abramovic
✤ Throughout her 30-year career, Abramovic has used her body as her primary
material, pushing it to extremes of altered consciousness, often putting
herself in great physical peril. Her concern with creating works that ritualize
the simple actions of everyday life like lying, sitting, dreaming and thinking
focuses, in effect, on the manifestation of a unique mental state.
August Macke
✤ August Macke (January 3, 1887 – September 26, 1914) was one of the
leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The
Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art
which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements
as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were
forming in the rest of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how
to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most
interested him.
Christian Boltanski
✤ Boltanski can be described as an alchemist, philosopher, potential suicide,
clown or Rasputin. His installations are made up of collections of everyday
objects such as clothing or shoes; and photographs - such as passport
photographs, school portraits and family albums. They memorialize ordinary
people - the unknown children killed in the Holocaust, the people of a Swiss
canton, or the employees of a Halifax carpet factory.
Cindy Sherman
✤ A unique glimpse into the early development of Sherman’s artistic practice,
and into the genesis of her inimitable substance and style. It illuminates her
conceptual approach to photography and foretells the career that would be
launched in the late 1970s, positioning her as one of the most significant
artists of our time.
Mark Bradford
✤ Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He received a BFA
(1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized
collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks—
underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of
abandoned public space—that emerge within a city.
Cao Fei
✤ Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China in 1978. She earned a BFA from
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China (2001). Cao Fei’s
work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and
diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works
explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and
the virtual world of Second Life.
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Vija Celmins
✤ Vija Celmins was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938. Celmins immigrated to the
United States with her family when she was ten years old, settling in
Indiana. She received a BFA from the John Herron Institute in Indianapolis,
and later earned her MFA in painting from the University of California, Los
Angeles. Celmins received international attention early on for her renditions
of natural scenes—often copied from photographs that lack a point of
reference, horizon, or discernable depth of field.
Mark Dion
✤ Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a
BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford
School of Art, Connecticut. Dion’s work examines the ways in which
dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of
history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to
go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and
convention.
Pepon Osorio
✤ Pepón Osorio, best known for large-scale installations, was born in Santurce,
Puerto Rico, in 1955. He was educated at the Universidad Inter-Americana in
Puerto Rico and Herbert H. Lehman College in New York, and received an MA
from Columbia University in 1985. Osorio’s pieces, influenced by his
experience as a social worker in The Bronx, usually evolve from an
interaction with the neighborhoods and people among which he is working.
Sally Mann
✤ Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to
live and work. She received a BA from Hollins College in 1974, and an MA in
writing from the same school in 1975. Her early series of photographs of her
three children and husband resulted in a series called “Immediate Family.” In
her recent series of landscapes of Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, and
Georgia, Mann has stated that she “wanted to go right into the heart of the
deep dark South.”
James Turrell
✤ James Turrell was born in Los Angeles in 1943. His undergraduate studies at
Pomona College focused on psychology and mathematics; only later, in
graduate school, did he pursue art. He received an MFA in art from the
Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. Turrell’s work involves
explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words,
impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening.
Ellen Gallagher
✤ Ellen Gallagher was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1965, and lives and works in New York and Rotterdam, Holland. She attended Oberlin College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Repetition and revision are central to Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines like “Ebony,” “Our World,” and “Sepia” and uses in works like “eXelento” (2004) and “DeLuxe” (2004-05). Initially, Gallagher was drawn to the wig advertisements because of their grid-like structure.
Pierre Huyghe
✤ Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, France. He attended the École
Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (1982-85). Employing folly,
leisure, adventure, and celebration in creating art, Huyghe’s films,
installations, and public events range from a small town parade to a puppet
theater, from a model amusement park to an expedition to Antarctica. By
filming staged scenarios—such as a re-creation of the true-life bank robbery
featured in the movie “Dog Day Afternoon”—Huyghe probes the capacity of
cinema to distort and ultimately shape memory.