MARY ELLEN MARK

DARA BIRNBAUM

SOPHIE CALLE

MICHAEL HANSMEYER

GEORGE SEGAL

GEORGE SEGAL

GEORGE SEGAL

JESSICA STOCKHOLDER

JESSICA STOCKHOLDER AMERICAN SCULPTOR AND INSTALLATION ARTIST. CONCEPTUAL ARTIST. PIONEER OF INSTALLATION ART THAT MIXES EVERYDAY CONSUMER AND HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS WITH HIGH ART TRADITIONS. HER WORKS ARE OFTEN TITLED AFTER LITERARY OR THEATRICAL WORKS. COMMON HOUSEHOLD MATERIALS GATHERED TOGETHER, DISPLAYED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GALLERY ENVIRONMENT IN A SEEMINGLY HAPHAZARD MANNER, COLORS AND SHAPES RANDOMLY APPLIED. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY

RICHARD SERRA

RICHARD SERRA. AMERICAN MINIMALIST SCULPTOR KNOWN FOR HIS CONSTRUCTIONS FROM LARGE ROLLS AND SHEETS OF METAL (COR-TEN-STEEL). MANY OF THESE PIECES ARE SELF-SUPPORTING AND EMPHASIZE THE WEIGHT AND NATURE OF THE MATERIALS. SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS, IN 1981, SERRA INSTALLED TILTED ARC, A GENTLY CURVED, 3.5 METER HIGH ARC OF RUSTING MILD STEEL IN THE FEDERAL PLAZA IN NEW YORK CITY. TO SEE IS TO THINK, TO CHANGE MEANINGS THROUGH PERCEPTION. NOTIONS OF PROCESS TIME AND SPACE ARE BEEING EXPLORED WITH FORMS NEVER BUILT BEFORE. 2007 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTED A RETROSPECTIVE OF SERRA'S WORK IN NEW YORK. INTERSECTION II (1992-1993) AND TORQUED ELLIPSE IV (1998) AMONG THE WORKS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

LOUISE BOURGEOIS. ARTIST AND SCULPTOR. HER MOST FAMOUS WORKS ARE POSSIBLY THE SPIDER STRUCTURES, TITLED MAMAN, HER WORKS ARE SOMETIMES ABSTRACT AND SHE SPEAKS OF THEM IN SYMBOLIC TERMS WITH THE MAIN FOCUS BEING "RELATIONSHIPS" - CONSIDERING AN ENTITY IN RELATION TO ITS SURROUNDINGS. LOUISE BOURGEOIS FINDS INSPIRATION FOR HER WORKS FROM HER CHILDHOOD: HER ADULTEROUS FATHER AND HER MOTHER, WHO REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT. HER PIECES CONSIST OF EROTIC AND SEXUAL IMAGES AND ALSO FORMS FOUND IN NATURE, SUCH AS HER SCULPTURE, CUMULS (REFERRING TO CLOUDS IN THE SKY) AND NATURE STUDY. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

ANN HAMILTON

MATTHEW BARNEY

MATHHEW BARNEY. AMERICAN ARTIST WHO WORKS IN SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAWING AND FILM. FROM SCULPTURAL INSTALLATIONS COMBINED WITH PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO. HE CREATED THE CREMASTER CYCLE. DRAWING RESTRAINTS 1–6 (1987–89) WERE DOCUMENTED WITH VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY. A MAJOR PROJECT CONSISTING OF A FEATURE-LENGTH FILM WITH SOUNDTRACK COMPOSED BY BJÖRK, LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, HIS GRAPHITE AND PETROLEUM JELLY DRAWINGS. HE HAS EXPLORED LIVE PERFORMANCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE A RITUALISTIC EXPLORATION OF EGYPTIAN SYMBOLISM IN ANCIENT NIGHTS. WIKI VIEW HISTORY.

NAN GOLDIN

MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND ULAY

MARINA ABRAMOVIC. SERBIAN PERFORMANCE ARTIST. ACTIVE FOR OVER THREE DECADES. ABRAMOVIĆ'S WORK EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE, THE LIMITS OF THE BODY, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MIND. ABRAMOVIĆ BEGAN TO CONSIDER THE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PERFORMER. “ONCE YOU ENTER INTO THE PERFORMANCE STATE YOU CAN PUSH YOUR BODY TO DO THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY COULD NEVER NORMALLY DO.” THE STATE OFUNCONSCIOUSNESS COULD BE INCORPORATED INTO A PERFORMANCE, TO TEST THE LIMITS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE. ABRAMOVIĆ/ULAY EXPLORED EXTREME STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ARCHITECTURAL SPACE.WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

NAN GOLDIN

VALIE EXPORT

VALIE EXPORT. AUSTRIAN ARTIST. HER ARTISTIC WORK INCLUDESVIDEO INSTALLATIONS, BODY PERFORMANCES, EXPANDED CINEMA,COMPUTER ANIMATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURES AND PUBLICATIONS. IN 1967, SHE CHANGED HER NAME TO VALIE EXPORT (WRITTEN IN UPPERCASE LETTERS). HER EXAMINATION OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THEPOWER RELATIONS INHERENT IN MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS INSCRIBE WOMEN’S BODIES AND CONSCIOUSNESS DISTINGUISHES VALIE EXPORT’S PROJECT. SHE SUBJECTED HER BODY TO PAIN AND DANGER IN ACTIONS DESIGNED. VALIE EXPORT'S GROUNDBREAKING VIDEO PIECE, "FACING A FAMILY" (1971) WAS ONE OF THE FIRST INSTANCES OF TELEVISION INTERVENTION AND BROADCASTING VIDEO ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY. 

VANESSA BEECROFT

BEECROFT'S WORK IS A FUSION OF CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND AESTHETIC CONCERNS, FOCUSING ON LARGE-SCALE PERFORMANCE ART, USUALLY INVOLVING LIVE FEMALE MODELS (OFTEN NUDE). AT HER PERFORMANCES, VIDEO RECORDINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MADE, TO BE EXHIBITED AS DOCUMENTATION OF THE PERFORMANCES, BUT ALSO AS SEPARATE WORKS OF ART. THE WORK AND HER CONCEPTUAL APPROACH IS NEITHER PERFORMANCE NOR DOCUMENTARY, BUT SOMETHING IN BETWEEN, AND CLOSER TO RENAISSANCE PAINTING. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN. PART OF THE GROUP OF DESIGNERS CALLED GRAPUS. THESE ARTISTS WERE CONCERNED WITH POLITICS AND CULTURE, DISPLAYING IMPROMPTU CREATIONS AND POSTERS ON THE STREET MOSTLY USING THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT. HE LEFT GRAPUS TO CREATE THE HYPERSATURATED INSTALLATIONS HE IS KNOWN FOR TODAY, USING COMMON MATERIALS SUCH ASCARDBOARD, FOIL, DUCT TAPE, AND PLASTIC WRAP. THESE INSTALLATIONS ARE OFTEN SITE SPECIFIC AND OUTSIDE THE GALLERY, AND/OR INTERACTIVE. UNLIKE MUCH TOTAL INSTALLATION WORK, THE VIEWER IS AN OBSERVER NOT AN ACTOR IN THE SPACES HE CREATES BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE CONTINUES TO OFFER MESSAGES IN HIS WORK AS HE DID WITH GRAPUS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN. PART OF THE GROUP OF DESIGNERS CALLED GRAPUS. THESE ARTISTS WERE CONCERNED WITH POLITICS AND CULTURE, DISPLAYING IMPROMPTU CREATIONS AND POSTERS ON THE STREET MOSTLY USING THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT. HE LEFT GRAPUS TO CREATE THE HYPERSATURATED INSTALLATIONS HE IS KNOWN FOR TODAY, USING COMMON MATERIALS SUCH ASCARDBOARD, FOIL, DUCT TAPE, AND PLASTIC WRAP. THESE INSTALLATIONS ARE OFTEN SITE SPECIFIC AND OUTSIDE THE GALLERY, AND/OR INTERACTIVE. UNLIKE MUCH TOTAL INSTALLATION WORK, THE VIEWER IS AN OBSERVER NOT AN ACTOR IN THE SPACES HE CREATES BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE CONTINUES TO OFFER MESSAGES IN HIS WORK AS HE DID WITH GRAPUS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN. PART OF THE GROUP OF DESIGNERS CALLED GRAPUS. THESE ARTISTS WERE CONCERNED WITH POLITICS AND CULTURE, DISPLAYING IMPROMPTU CREATIONS AND POSTERS ON THE STREET MOSTLY USING THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT. HE LEFT GRAPUS TO CREATE THE HYPERSATURATED INSTALLATIONS HE IS KNOWN FOR TODAY, USING COMMON MATERIALS SUCH ASCARDBOARD, FOIL, DUCT TAPE, AND PLASTIC WRAP. THESE INSTALLATIONS ARE OFTEN SITE SPECIFIC AND OUTSIDE THE GALLERY, AND/OR INTERACTIVE. UNLIKE MUCH TOTAL INSTALLATION WORK, THE VIEWER IS AN OBSERVER NOT AN ACTOR IN THE SPACES HE CREATES BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE CONTINUES TO OFFER MESSAGES IN HIS WORK AS HE DID WITH GRAPUS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.