Sculpture Final Part 2: Artists Study Guide Slide Identification
Donald Judd #19: Donald Judd Born: June 3, 1928 Died: February 12, 1994 Style: Modern art, Minimalism Fun Facts: Judd s first solo exhibition was in 1957 at the Panoras Gallery, New York, the same year he began graduate studies in art history at Columbia University.
Donald Judd Untitled
#20: Robert Morris Robert Morris Born: February 9, 1931 Style: Minimalism Fun Facts: American artist whose minimalist sculptures and personalized performance works contributed significantly to the avant-garde movements of the 1960s and 70s. Morris studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, California School of Fine Arts, Reed College, and Hunter College, New York City, where he taught art from 1967.
Robert Morris
Carl Andre #21: Carl Andre Born: September 16, 1935 Style: Minimalism Fun Facts: Andre served in the U.S. Army in North Carolina 1955-56 and moved to New York City in 1956. From 1960-64 Andre worked as freight brakeman and conductor in New Jersey for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Carl Andre Equivalent VIII, 1966
Dan Flavin #22: Dan Flavin Born: April 1, 1933 Died: November 29, 1996 Style: Minimalism Fun Facts: Served in the military. Flavin served in the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s. Upon his return home, he attended the New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. Flavin switched to light-based pieces in the early 1960s.
Dan Flavin
#23: Duane Hanson Duane Hanson Born January 17, 1925 Died January 6, 1996 Style: Photorealism, Super realist Fun Facts: Around 1966 Hanson began making figural casts using fiberglass and vinyl. Around 1970 Hanson abandoned such gut-wrenching subjects for more subtle though no less vivid ones.
Duane Hanson Early Mowing
Duane Hanson Women Pushing Shopping Cart, 1970s
Louise Nevelson #25: Louise Nevelson Born: September 23, 1899 Died: April 17, 1988 Style: Abstract Expressionism Fun Facts: By her own account, young Leah knew that she wanted to be an artist at an early age. In 1932, Nevelson traveled to Germany to study Cubism with Hans Hofmann, until the Nazis closed the school.
Louise Nevelson
Alice Aycock #26: Alice Aycock Born November 20, 1946 (age 67) Style: Fun Facts: Her early sculptures were site-specific and were largely made from wood and stone; in the 1980s she began to use steel.
Alice Aycock
Robert Smithson #27 Born: January 2, 1938 Died: July 20, 1973 Style: Modern Art, Enviormental Earthworks Fun Facts: In 1967 Smithson began exploring industrial areas around New Jersey an was fascinated by the sight of dump trucks excavating tons of earth and rock that he described in an essay as the equivalents of the monuments of antiquity.
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty, 1972
Robert Smithson New York Earth Room,
Nancy Holt #28 Born: April 5, 1938 Died: February 8, 2014 Style: Enviormental Sculpting Fun Facts Nancy Holt is the wife of Robert Smithson, the creator of the Spiral Jetty. Apparently eco-art and earthworks are the recipe for a long and healthy marriage.
Nancy Holt Sun Tunnels
Walter De Maria #29 Born: October 1, 1935 Died: July 25, 2013 Style: Minimalism, Enviormental Fun Facts: Walter de Maria's first academic interest was music first piano, then percussion. In 1980, De Maria bought a four-story, 16,400-square-foot substation. In February 2014, this property was selling for $25 million
Lightning Field, Walter DeMaria
Claes Oldenburg #30 Born: January 28, 1929 (age 85) Style: Environmental, Site-specific Fun Facts: Oldenburg's first recorded sales of artworks were at the 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago, where he sold 5 items for a total price of $25. Patty Mucha was Oldenburg's first wife, from 1960 to 1970. She was a constant performer in Oldenburg's happenings and performed with The Druds.
Claes Oldenburg Clothespin, 1976
Michael Heizer #31 Born: November 4, 1944 (age 69) Style: Modern Art, Environmental Earthworks Fun Facts: In the late 1960s, Heizer left New York City for the deserts of California and Nevada, where he began to produce large-scale works that could not fit into a museum setting, except perhaps in photographs. Heizer displaced 6 tons of earth, making a one-foot-wide trench, 120 feet long, with the loop being 12 feet in diameter. This culminated in the production of Double Negative in 1969 and 1970
Michael Heizer Displaced/Replaced Mass (1969)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Javacheff #32 Born: June 13, 1935 (Christo & Jeanne- Claude) Gabrovo, Bulgaria (Christo) Casablanca, Maoracco (Jeanne-Claude) Died: November 18, 2009 (aged 74) (Jeanne- Claude) Style: Environmental Art Fun Facts: Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same date, Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958. Their works were credited to just "Christo" until 1994, when the outdoor works and large indoor installations were retroactively credited to "Christo and Jeanne-Claude". They flew in separate planes: in case one crashed, the other could continue their work. Jeanne-Claude died, aged 74, on November 18, 2009, from complications of a brain aneurysm.
Christo & Jeanne-Claude Running Fence, 1972 Running Fence: 18 feet (5.5 meters) high, 24.5 miles (39.4 kilometers) long, extending east-west near Freeway 101, north of San Francisco
Christo & Jeanne-Claude Valley Curtain, 1972
James Turrell #33 Born: May 6, 1943 (age 71) Style: Light Art Fun Facts: Turrell obtained a pilot's license when he was 16 years old. He subsequently flew supplies to remote mine sites and worked as an aerial cartographer.
James Turrell
WT Stinson #34 Born: January 26, 1959 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky Style: Light Art Fun Facts: From same hometown as renowned Kentucky artist Joe Downing Studied Art Education at Western Kentucky Completed graduate work at Florida State University 1989 Technical Assistant for James Turrell 1991 Jacksonville Art Museum, Youngest artist to exhibit in Photons~Phonons~Electrons: an overview of light, kinetic, and sound art since 1927.
WT Stinson Converge I, 2013
Isamu Noguchi #35 Born: November 17, 1904 Died: December 30, 1988 Style: Fun Facts: In 1924, while still enrolled at Columbia, Noguchi followed his mother's advice to take night classes at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School.
Isamu Noguchi
Sandy Skogland #36 Born: September 5, 1946 (age 67) Nationality: American Style: Installation Artist, Photographer Skoglund creates Surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set, complete with actors. The works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright, contrasting colors or a monochromatic color scheme.
Sandy Skoglund Radioactive Cats,
Barbara Krueger #37 Born: January 26, 1945 (age 69) Style: Conceptual Art, Site-specific Public Art Fun Facts: Her father worked as a chemical technician, her mother as a legal secretary. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed.
Barbara Krueger
Chris Burden #38 Born: April 11, 1946 (age 68) Style: Performance Art, Conceptual Art, Site Specific Art Public Art Fun Facts: Burden began to work in performance art in the early 1970s, he made a series of controversial performances in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central.
Chris Burden Volkswagen Crucifixion, 1974
Jenny Holzer #39 Born: July 29, 1950 (age 63) Gallipolis, Ohio Nationality: American Style: Conceptual Art Originally aspiring to become an abstract painter, her studies included general art courses at Duke University Durham, NC (1968 1970), and then painting, printmaking and drawing at the University of Chicago before completing her BFA at Ohio University, Athens (1972). In 1974, Holzer took summer courses at the Rhode Island School of design, Providence, entering its MFA programm in 1975. In 1976 she moved to Manhattan, participating in the Whitney Museum s independent study program and beginning her first work with language, installation and public art.
Jenny Holzer Guggenheim Installation, 1990
Vito Acconci #40 Born: January 24, 1940 (age 74) Style: Conceptual Art, Site-specific Public Art Fun Facts: In the 1980s, Acconci turned to permanent sculptures and installations. During this time he invited viewers to create artwork by activating machinery that erected shelters and signs.
Vito Acconci The Following Piece, 1969
Joseph Beuys #41 Born: May 12, 1921 Died: January 23, 1986 (age 64) Style: Conceptual Art, Fluxus Art, Performance Art Fun Facts: Beuys had adopted shamanism not only as his presentation mode of his art but also in his own life. In 1941, Beuys volunteered for the Luftwaffe.
Joseph Beuys Wooden Chair with Fat, 1964