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Gracie Mansion Gallery
Gracie Mansion Gallery was an art gallery in New York City founded by artist and dealer Gracie Mansion (née Joanne Mayhew-Young). It is known an important site for the Lower East Side art scene of the 1980s. History Joanne Mayhew-Young changed her name to Gracie Mansion in 1982. Unable to find galleries that were interested in her or artist friends, Mansion decided to open her own gallery. Also in 1982, Mansion met Sur Rodney (Sur), who became her collaborator and business partner from 1983 to 1988. The first shows organized by Mansion and Sur were staged in unconventional spaces, including a rented limousine or the bathroom at Mansion's apartment, which they called Loo Division. In the spring of 1982, the Gracie Mansion Gallery opened. The first location of the gallery was 9th St. between 1st and Avenue A. The gallery then moved to 15 St. Marks Place, and finally to 337 East 10th St. A space occupied by the gallery on Avenue A was funded in part by a loan form Citibank arranged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sur Rodney (Sur)
Sur or SUR or El Sur (Spanish "the South") may refer to: Geography * Sur or Shur (Bible), the wilderness of Sur/Shur from the Book of Exodus * Sur (river), a river of Bavaria, Germany * Súr, a village in Hungary * Sur, a district of the city of Diyarbakir in Turkey * Sur, Diyarbakır, a historic district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey * Sur, Iran (other), places in Iran * Sur, Oman, the easternmost major town in Oman * Sur, Switzerland, a village in the canton of Grisons * Big Sur, a coastline of California * Sur State, a princely state of India merged with Idar State in 1821 * Tyre, Lebanon (Arabic: صور, Ṣūr; Phoenician: צור, Ṣur; Turkish: Sur), a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon People * Sur (Pashtun tribe), a Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India * Sur (poet), a 16th-century blind Bhakti saint, poet and musician * Sur Dynasty, Pashtun Dynasty which ruled northern India between 1540 and c. 1555 * Sur language, a minor Plateau language of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Deitch
Jeffrey Deitch (pronounced ''DIE-tch'';Mike Boehm (January 12, 2010)L.A.'s MOCA picks art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as director''Los Angeles Times''. born 1952) is an American art dealer and curator. He is best known for his gallery Deitch Projects (1996–2010) and curating groundbreaking exhibitions such as ''Lives'' (1975) and ''Post Human'' (1992). Deitch was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from 2010 to 2013. He currently owns and directs Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, an art gallery with locations in New York and Los Angeles. Early life and education Deitch was born in 1952 and grew up in Connecticut, where his father ran a heating-oil and coal company and his mother was an economist.Carl Swanson (January 13, 2014)Jeffrey Deitch Curates Jeffrey Deitch: The Return of the Art World's Most Essential Zelig''New York Magazine''. He attended public high school in West Hartford, Connecticut, from 1967 to 1970. He was an exchange student in Paris in 1968, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Lack
Stephen Lack (born January 1, 1946) is a Canadian artist and former actor and screenwriter best known for his leading role in David Cronenberg's '' Scanners'' and Allan Moyle's '' The Rubber Gun'', for which he was nominated for two Genie Awards. Early life and education Lack was born in 1946 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and gained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from McGill University in 1967, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Universidad de Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1969. Career Although he also produces drawings and sculpture, his primary medium is painting; he specializes in American scenes (urban, cultural, and landscapes) in a style that has been described as Neo-Expressionist. His art has won a number of awards and residencies. He was artist in residence at Ancienne Manufacture Royale, Limoges, and Banff Institute of the Arts in 1988, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan in 1989, and Connecticut College and Skidmore College in 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Minter
Marilyn Minter (born 1948) is an American visual artist who is perhaps best known for her sensual paintings and photographs done in the photorealism style that blur the line between commercial and fine art. Minter currently teaches in the MFA department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Early life and education Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1948. She was raised in Florida. In 1970 she attained a BFA from the University of Florida in Gainesville."Marilyn Minter CV" Salon 94, Retrieved 17 November 2018. In 1972 she received an MFA in painting from Syracuse University. Style Her photographs and works often include sexuality and erotic imagery. Minter's process begins by staging photoshoots with film. She eschews photoshop, di ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Hansen
Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen (5 October 1927 – 20 June 1995) was an American artist. He was a member of Fluxus, a movement that originated on an artists' collective around George Maciunas. He was the father of Andy Warhol protégé Bibbe Hansen and the grandfather and artistic mentor of rock musician Beck and artist Channing Hansen. Bibbe and Channing continue his legacy by performing some of his most iconic works. Biography Born in New York City, Al Hansen was a friend to Yoko Ono and John Cage. While serving in Germany in World War II, Hansen pushed a piano off the roof of a five-story building. This act became the foundation of one of his most recognized performance pieces, the ''Yoko Ono Piano Drop.'' Many artists have also destroyed or altered pianos including John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik and Raphael Montañez Ortiz. Hansen studied with composer John Cage at the now famous 1958 Composition Class at the New School for Social Research in New York City along wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wojnarowicz
David Michael Wojnarowicz ( (September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorporated personal narratives influenced by his struggle with AIDS as well as his political activism in his art until his death from the disease in 1992. Biography Wojnarowicz was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, where he and his two siblings and sometimes their mother were physically abused by their father, Ed Wojnarowicz. Ed, a Polish-American merchant marine from Detroit, had met and married Dolores McGuinness in Sydney, Australia, in 1948 when he was 26 and she was 16. After his parents' bitter divorce, he moved to New York as a teenager with his young mother, Australian-born Dolores. During his teenage years in Manhattan, Wojnarowicz worked as a street hustler around Times Square. He graduated from the High School of Music & Art in Manhatt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia DeMonte
Claudia DeMonte (born 1947) is an American mixed media artist known for her exploration of "contemporary women’s roles" and world cultures through her eclectic sculptures, collages, digital prints, and installations. Her work is influenced by growing up Catholic and the lavish trappings and rituals of Catholicism. Other significant interests and themes in her work include outsider art, "globalism, identity politics, feminism, and social responsibility," which have been shaped by her world travels as much as her awareness of social issues. Early life Claudia DeMonte was born in 1947 in Astoria, New York. She was raised in an ethnically diverse neighborhood where she had a traditional Italian upbringing and strong Catholic education. Her father was an insurance broker and honorary mayor of Astoria before becoming a city councilman. DeMonte's mother, Ammeda Heiss DeMonte, was an assistant buyer and "Miss Hub" for the Hub department store in Baltimore before she married and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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