PRESENTATION, Page 84
Ann Veronica Janssens bases her work on the act of perception, developing an experimental research through the prism of physical phenomena such as light, color, sound, or mist. Using stripped-down gestures, the artist activates “undefined zones” between blindness and revelation. These gestures seek to render manifest the indefinable and transitory …
Lucio Fontana dedicated his entire career to investigating the concepts of space, light, the void and the cosmos through the use of …
Richard Pousette-Dart is the forgotten man of Abstract Expressionism and the New York School, which transformed American art in the post-war years. …
Amar Kanwar is an artist shaped by a commitment to social activism. Born in New Delhi where he lives, he works strictly …
Olivier Beer is a graduate of Academy of Contemporary Music and Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. Beer is …
Meg Cranston investigates the intersections between individual and shared experience and how imagery and objects acquire meaning in our culture. Equally enamored …
Beverly Pepper is known for her monumental works, site specific and land art, but she remains independent from any particular art movement. …
Ari Marcopoulos is a photographer and filmmaker who gravitates toward elusive subcultures, Ari Marcopoulos photographs objects and cultures that pique his interest. …
Fred Eversley is one of a group of artists associated with the 1960s L.A. “finish fetish” movement that paralleled Minimal Art in …
Paloma Varga Weisz’s wood-carved sculptures, paintings, drawings and watercolors explore themes of memory, mortality, transformation, metamorphosis, the uncanny and the tragicomic. Art-historical …
Since 1971 Frank Uwe Laysiepen is known in artistic circles as Ulay, a pseudonym that combines the initial of his name with …
Born in Japan, Masako Miki has made Berkeley her home for more than twenty years. Her work often explores her personal relationship …
Josef Albers emigrated to USA in 1933, the year of the rise to power of the Nazi party, which impeded the continuation …
Jitish Kallat was born in 1974 in Mumbai where he currently lives, the artist works with a variety of media including painting, …
The exhibition “Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia” celebrates the wealth of color and diversity of styles in the geometric art of …
In response to the shooting of a student during a demonstration protesting the visit of the Shah of Persia in 1967, Beuys …
Art Brut is a French term invented by Dubuffet to describe art which is made outside the academic tradition of fine art. …
At age 21, Sweeney Reed (the adopted son of Heide Museum’s Founders John and Sunday Reed) opened Strines in Carlton (1966-70), and …
Stéphane Dafflon’s paintings seem simple and minimalist at first, but attest to his strong pictorial skills. Initially designed on a computer screen …
Widely considered the most influential composer of our time, John Cage’s inventive and unorthodox approach revolutionised contemporary music and his influence extended …
Richard Tuttle is one of the most singular and influential artists working today, whose extraordinary work eludes classification and dissolves the boundaries …
Since the 1960s, James Turrell has created an expansive body of work that offers profound revelations about perception and the materiality of …
For Nancy Spero, who died in 2009 at the age of 83, choices of material, form, method, and subject matter were always …
In his essay “The Necessity of Art” (1959), Ernst Fischer explains the art;s importance in viewing the world in which we live. …
