ART CITIES, Page 47
Although John Currin is often accused of misogynistic tendencies due to his subject matter, he contends his presentations are intended as satirical references to society’s ever-present barrage of the elusive “ideal” fed to us through art history, media, advertising, and the glossy pages of magazines. This exploration into vanity continues …
During the last ten years, Robert Longo has created several important photorealistic cycles. The selection of themes is political. They have their …
For 50 years, Thomas Joshua Cooper has been making photographs outdoors. Often realized through intense physical travel to remote and isolated sites, …
Derek Jarman (1942-94) was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener, political activist and author. He was educated at the …
One of the leading German artists of the post-war period, Imi Knoebel’s wide-ranging and rigorous oeuvre incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, projections …
The films, drawings and other works by Tacita Dean are extremely original. Her recent film portraits express something that neither painting nor …
Leo Villareal works with LED lights to create complex, rhythmic artworks for both gallery and public settings. He focuses on identifying the …
Incorporating sculpture, installation, video and performance, Bronwyn Katz’s practice engages with the concept of land as a repository of memory, reflecting on …
Climate change is often seen through a policy or scientific lens, and solutions are discussed only in political offices, boardrooms and negotiating …
Since graduating from Yale in 1989, Matthew Barney has made a rapid impact on the art world. In 1994 Barney embarked on …
Brice Marden continuously refines and extends the traditions of lyrical abstraction. Experimenting with self-imposed rules, limits, and processes, and drawing inspiration from …
Eva Hesse was one of the icons of American art in the 1960s, her work being a major influence on subsequent generations …
Rashid Johnson is renowned for challenging the assumptions often present in collective notions of blackness. Johnson is among an influential, core group …
Renowned for his wry marriages of everyday subjects with raw physical matter, Matt Johnson’s sculptures explore the paradox of visual forms through …
Mary Corse has built a practice that occupies an independent space at the intersection of minimalist painting, Abstract Expressionism and scientific inquiry. …
Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the 1990s. …
Irving Penn was one of the most important and influential photographers of the 20th Century. In a career that spanned almost 70years, …
Throughout his career, Gerhard Richter has remained at the forefront of contemporary abstraction and image-making, embracing haptic process and technological advancements in …
![Left: Allan Sekula, Replica of door to blacksmiths’ shed, in situ (original in collection of Warsaw Ethnographic Museum.) Ochojno, Poland July, 2009, detail from “Polonia and Other Fables”, Right: Allan Sekula, Art Isn’t Fair, 2012, (video still) [detail]](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/003-332x157.jpg)
Allan Sekula revitalized documentary photography, provided critical foundations for theorizing the relationship between word and image, and was one of the earliest …
Yukinori Yanagi focuses on large-scale and site-specific installations that interrogate the politics of institutional borders and boundaries often drawing from systems of …
Apostolos Karakatsanis’ black and white artworks, that are on show in his solo exhibition with the intriguing and playful title “flat drop …
Known for works that incorporate found and constructed elements with a unique formal, technical, and conceptual inventiveness, Carol Bove stands as one …
The traveling installation “The Writing on the Wall” is composed of essays, poems, letters, stories, diagrams, and notes written by individuals in …
Rudolf Polanszky is considered a key figure in the Actionist and Post-Actionist Movement with his conceptual oeuvre which aims to bring abstract …
