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Artifacts At The End Of A Decade (portfolio)
''Artifacts at the End of a Decade'' (1981) is a boxed multiple containing works from 44 artists who were active in New York City in the 1970s. Assembled by Steven Watson (author), Steven Watson and Carol Huebner Venezia, ''Artifacts'' is a collection of pieces designed uniquely for this project. The portfolio is and weighs . Its "pages" are made from everything from glass, copper, clay, rope, felt, and film to lycra, neoprene, polyester, mylar, vinyl, stucco, and glitter. ''Artifacts'' was described by Jessica Scott of University of Massachusetts Amherst, UMass Amherst as a "multidisciplinary American survey of the 1970's in the form of an artists' archive." ''Artifacts'' is a limited edition of 100. Most recently'', Artifacts'' was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2021, and at the Centre Pompidou in 2022 accompanied by a talk by Watson. Conception and Production In 1979, Watson and Huebner Venezia sent 200 letters to act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Watson (author)
Steven Watson (born 1947) is an author, art and cultural historian, curator, and documentary filmmaker. His 1991 book ''Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde'' was called "a chapter in our national biography" by Stefan Kanfer for the ''Los Angeles Times'' and "a marvelous group portrait of a band of cultural renegades" by ''Publishers Weekly''. Watson has written five books about 20th century American avant-garde and counterculture movements, curated two exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery ("Group Portrait, The First American Avant-Garde" and "Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s"), and served as consultant curator for the Whitney Museum exhibition "Beat Culture and the New America". Biography Watson was born in 1947. He grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from Mound High School. He majored in English at Stanford University and participated in anti-Vietnam War protests, including a guerrilla theater piece called ''Alice in ROTC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kushner
Robert Kushner (; born 1949, Pasadena, CA) is an American contemporary painter who is known especially for his involvement in Pattern and Decoration. He has been called "a founder" of that artistic movement. In addition to painting, Kushner creates installations in a variety of mediums, from large-scale public mosaics to delicate paintings on antique book pages. Work Kushner draws from a unique range of influences, including Islamic and European textiles, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonnard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuchu, Qi Baishi, and Wu Changshuo. Kushner's work combines organic representational elements with abstracted geometric forms as a background in a way that is both decorative and modernist. He has said, “I never get tired of pursuing new ideas in the realm of ornamentation. Decoration, an abjectly pejorative dismissal for many, is a very big, somewhat defiant declaration for me. … The eye can wander, the mind think unencumbered through vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Stuart
Michelle Stuart (born 1933) is an American multidisciplinary artist known for her sculpture, painting and environmental art. She is based in New York City. Early life Stuart was born in 1933 and she grew up in Los Angeles, California. After attending Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), Stuart worked as a topological draftsperson. She worked in Mexico about 1951 as a studio assistant to Diego Rivera. She married Catalan artist José Bartoli in 1953. She lived for 3 year in Paris, then moved to New York, where she has resided since 1957. Work In the early phase of her career, Stuart drew inspiration from recently released photographs of the surface of the Moon and saw parallels between her early rubbings and these lunar landscapes. This body of luminous monochromatic drawings brought land art into the gallery. During this time, Stuart investigated other means of addressing specific sites through her landworks or, as she terms them, "drawin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Stellar
Stanley Stellar (born 1945) is an American photographer, living in Manhattan, who has photographed gay men in the West Village there since 1976. His work is included in the collection of Harvard Art Museums, as well as in the '' Artifacts at the End of a Decade'' portfolio, a copy of which is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Life and work Stellar was born in New York City, growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s. He studied graphic design and photography at Parsons School of Design in New York City then began working as art director at Art Direction, an advertising agency. In 1976, Stellar purchased a professional camera and began photographing the gay scene on the streets of Manhattan's West Village including Christopher Street, and on the Christopher Street Pier where men cruised for sex. Publications Books of work by Stellar *''The Beauty of All Men, Photographs 1976–2011''. All Saints, 2011. . *''Into the Light: Photographs of the NYC Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American culture, African-American African-American neighborhood, communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body movements, are an important hallmark of soul. Other characteristics are a Call and response (music), call and response between the lead and Backing vocalist, backing vocalists, an especially tense vocal sound, and occasional Musical improvisation, improvisational additions, twirls, and auxiliary sounds. Soul music is known for reflecting African-American identity and stressing the importance of African-American culture. Soul has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues, and primarily combines elements of gospel, R&B and jazz. The genre emerged from the power struggle to increase black Americans' awareness of their African ancestry, as a newfound consciousness led to the creation of music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler (born 1943) is an American artist. She is a conceptual artist who works in photography and photo text, video art, video, installation art, installation, sculpture, site-specific art, site-specific and performance art, performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to places of passage and systems of transport. Early life and education Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, Rosler spent formative years in California, from 1968 to 1980, first in north San Diego county and then in San Francisco. She has also lived and taught in Canada. She graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, as well as Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974). She has lived in New York City since 1981. Career Rosler's wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucio Pozzi
Lucio Pozzi (born 1935 in Milan) is an Italian-born, American artist currently based in Hudson, New York, and Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona, Italy. He studied architecture in Rome before moving to New York City in 1962. Pozzi is a painter whose painterly concerns extend to environmental art and actions. He teaches, writes, and lectures. His work is in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; the Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Art Gallery of Ontario; the New York Public Library; the Detroit Institute of Arts; Giuseppe Panza; the Fogg Art Museum; the Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Pozzi's awards include the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also a member of American Abstract Artists American Abstract Artists (AAA) was founded in 1937 in New York City, to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art. American Abstract Artists exhibitions, publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Pekar
Harvey Lawrence Pekar (; October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical ''American Splendor'' comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a well-received film adaptation of the same name. Frequently described as the "poet laureate of Cleveland",Harvey Pekar Dies: Comic book writer was 'poet laureate of Cleveland' by , Tablet, July 12, 2010 Pekar "helped change the appreciation for, and perceptions of, the |
Jayme Odgers
Jayme Odgers (born 1939) was an artist, photographer and graphic designer. He was best known for his new wave design and experimental collage photography of the 1980s. Biography Jayme Odgers graduated from Los Angeles’ Art Center College of Design with a bachelor's degree in Art in1962. After graduating, his first job was designing the wayfarer graphics for the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair where he met and later became Paul Rand's assistant. In the late 1970s Jayme Odgers played an instrumental role in establishing a new look for California design, work that was included in the exhibition ''Pacific Waves'' at the Museo Fortuny in Venice, Italy. In the 1980s, he worked with April Greiman to create posters for the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 100th anniversary of the Swiss publisher Thieme. Odgers' work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Brooklyn Museum, the Arco Center for the Visual Arts and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bea Nettles
Bea Nettles (born 1946 in Gainesville, Florida) is a fine art photographer and author currently residing in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois. Education Nettles earned her BFA at the University of Florida in 1968. She then went on to pursue an MFA at the University of Illinois, graduating in 1970. Career Nettles has been exhibiting and publishing her semi-autobiographical works since 1970. She taught photography and artists’ books from 1970–2007 at Rochester Institute of Technology, Tyler School of Art, and the University of Illinois where she is currently professor emerita. She has had over fifty one-person exhibitions including George Eastman House, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Light Gallery and Witkin Gallery in New York City. Nettles is known for experimenting with alternative photographic processes. She utilizes several photo-mechanical printing techniques such as photolithography and silkscreen. Nettles' work tackles issues of family relationships, wove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Lyons
Joan Lyons (born 1937) is an American artist known for her work in photography, printmaking, and book arts. She is the Founding Director of Rochester's Visual Studies Workshop Press. Early life and education Lyons was born in New York, New York. Lyons has a BFA from Alfred University, New York (1957), and an MFA frp, SUNY Buffalo, New York (1973). Career In 1971, Lyons co-founded the VSW Press at the Rochester-based Visual Studies Workshop. The preview material for a 2023 retrospective at the University of Rochester states, "Joan Lyons has been a fearless innovator in a wide range of historical and contemporary image-making processes, as well as newly invented reproduction technologies of the 1960s–1980s. Lyons embraces chance and uncertainty as opportunities for discovery." It continues, "While Lyons is adept with process and equipment, her starting point is the idea that the people and everyday objects around us accrue value from our interactions with them. The humble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Livingstone
Joan Livingstone (born 1948) is an American contemporary artist, educator, curator, and author based in Chicago. She creates sculptural objects, installations, prints, and collages that reference the human body and bodily experience. Education Livingstone earned a bachelor of arts degree from Portland State University in 1972, followed by a master of fine arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She was a stage and graphic designer at the Portland Shakespeare Company from 1969 to 1972. Career Artist Livingstone's work often abstractly reflects the human body, especially as is related to the history of women artists. In her early work, she often used suture-stitch to create visceral forms out of industrial felt that she then hardened with epoxy resins. Her more recent work incorporates found objects, metallic leaf, and hand-made paper. Her later fiber arts work was larger in scale and took on more conceptual meaning. Livingstone has held solo exhibitions at the John Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
