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.

11.394 WALLACE BERMAN

11.388 ANSELM KIEFER

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

10.382 VALIE EXPORT

VALIE EXPORT. AUSTRIAN ARTIST. HER ARTISTIC WORK INCLUDES VIDEO 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 THE POWER 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.

10.374 KIKI SMITH

Exhibiting Artist Lecture: Kiki Smith from Henry Art Gallery on Vimeo.

10.357 LOUISE BOURGEOIS

10.356 LOUISE NEVELSON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=PL441BB7F036D37CD1&v=DJ8zcXmVwqo


LOUISE NEVELSON. AMERICAN ARTIST. NEVELSON IS KNOWN FOR HER ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST “CRATES” GROUPED TOGETHER TO FORM A NEW CREATION. SHE USED FOUND OBJECTS OR EVERYDAY DISCARDED THINGS IN ER “ASSEMBLAGES” OR ASSEMBLIES, ONE OF WHICH WAS THREE STORIES HIGH: "WHEN YOU PUT TOGETHER THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THROWN OUT, YOU’RE REALLY BRINGING THEM TO LIFE – A SPIRITUAL LIFE THAT SURPASSES THE LIFE FOR WHICH THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CREATED." NEVELSON'S WORK HAS BEEN LINKED TO CUBISM, DADA, SURREALISM, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, MINIMALISM, FEMINISM, AND INSTALLATION ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.352 PABLO PICASSO

10.345 RACHEL WHITEREAD

10.333 RICHARD SERRA

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/2777


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.

10.329 ANISH KAPOOR

REBECCA HORN

REBECCA HORN IS A GERMAN INSTALLATION ARTIST MOST FAMOUS FOR HER BODY MODIFICATIONS SUCH AS EINHORN (UNICORN), A BODY-SUIT WITH A VERY LARGE HORN PROJECTING VERTICALLY FROM THE HEADPIECE, AND PENCIL MASK, A MESH HARNESS FOR THE HEAD WITH MANY PENCILS PROJECTING OUT. SHE IS MAINLY A PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION ARTIST, BUT SHE ALSO WRITES POETRY. SOMETIMES HER POETRY IS INFLUENCED BY HER WORK, AND ON MANY OCCASIONS HER POETRY HAS INSPIRED HER WORK. SHE WAS TAUGHT TO DRAW BY HER ROMANIAN GOVERNESS AND BECAME OBSESSED WITH DRAWING AS EXPRESSION BECAUSE IT WAS NOT AS CONFINING OR LABELING AS ORAL LANGUAGE. I DID NOT HAVE TO DRAW IN GERMAN OR FRENCH OR ENGLISH. I COULD JUST DRAW." WIKY. VIEW HISTORY.