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Dakis Joannou Collection
Dakis Ioannou (Leonidas Ioannou; ; born December 30, 1939) is a Greek Cypriot industrialist and art collector. He is considered to be one of the leading collectors of contemporary art in the world and is famous for acquisitions such as the Jeff Koons-designed yacht 'Guilty'. Early life and education Dakis Ioannou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. Son of industrialist Stelios Ioannou, and co-founder of the Ioannou & Paraskevaides company, Ioannou graduated from Athens College in 1958 after moving to Greece. In 1962 he continued his education in the United States, receiving his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Cornell University. In 1964, he completed his master's degree from Columbia University and in 1967 accomplished his Doctorate in Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Career Ioannou entered the construction and civil engineering business in the late 1960s and ever since has diversified his holdings through numerous areas of international industrial comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornell University
Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson White in 1865. Since its founding, Cornell University has been a Mixed-sex education, co-educational and nonsectarian institution. As of fall 2024, the student body included 16,128 undergraduate and 10,665 graduate students from all 50 U.S. states and 130 countries. The university is organized into eight Undergraduate education, undergraduate colleges and seven Postgraduate education, graduate divisions on its main Ithaca campus. Each college and academic division has near autonomy in defining its respective admission standards and academic curriculum. In addition to its primary campus in Ithaca, Cornell University administers three satellite campuses, including two in New York City, the Weill Cornell Medicine, medical school and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well as notable themes of sex, intercourse, and conflict. His early pieces were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002, he created '' The Cremaster Cycle'', a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in ''The Guardian'' as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema." He is also known for his projects '' Drawing Restraint 9'' (2005), '' River of Fundament'' (2014) and ''Redoubt'' (2018). Life and career Matthew Barney was born March 25, 1967, as the younger of two children in San Francisco, California, where he lived until he was 7.Kristine McKenna (November 20, 1994)This Boise Life, or Hut Hut Houdini''Los Angeles Times''. He lived in Bois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Webster
Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits islands, Australia * Sue, Fukuoka, a town in Japan ** Sue Station (Fukuoka), a railway station * Sue Lake, a lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States Other uses * Suing (to sue), a type of lawsuit * Sue (name), a feminine given name (and list of people with the name) * Sué, a god of the Andean Muisca civilization * Sue (dinosaur), a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' specimen * ''Sue Lost in Manhattan'' or ''Sue'', a 1998 film * Subsurface Utility Engineering * Sue ware, ancient Japanese pottery * ARC (file format) or .sue * Door County Cherryland Airport's IATA code * Mary Sue or Sue, an idealized fictional character * United States of Europe (electoral list) (Stati Uniti d'Europa), pro-European electoral list in Italy * Yoshiko Tanaka or S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Life McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1945. He studied art at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and later continued to study at the University of Utah until 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute, receiving a BFA in painting. In 1972 he studied film, video, and art at the University of Southern California, receiving an MFA. From 1982 to 2002 he taught performance, video, installation, and performance art history at the University of California, Los Angeles. McCarthy currently works mainly in video and sculpture. Originally formally trained as a painter, McCarthy's main interest lies in everyday activities and the mess created by them. Much of his work in the late 1960s, such as ''Mountain Bowling'' (1969) and ''Hold an Apple in Your Armpit'' (1970), are similar to the work of Allan Kaprow#Happenings, Happenings founder Allan Kaprow, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Manders
Mark Manders (born 1968 in Volkel) is a Dutch artist, currently living and working in Ronse, Belgium. His work consists mainly of Installation art, installations, drawings and sculptures.Janet Koplos, "Mark Manders at Greene Naftali - New York," ''Art in America'', April 2003.] He is probably best known for his large bronze figures that look like rough-hewn, wet or peeling clay. Typical of his work is also the arrangement of random objects, such as tables, chairs, light bulbs, blankets and dead animals.Melissa Gronlund, "Mark Manders review," ''Frieze'', Issue 100, June - August 2006. Biography Working as a graphic designer in his late teens, Manders studied at the ArtEZ University of Arts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem (now ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design) from 1988 to 1992. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945) is a Hungarian-American conceptual artist, who lives in New York and Venice,Joseph Kosuth Guggenheim Collection. after having resided in various cities in Europe, including London, and Rome.Joseph Kosuth, June 20 - July 4, 2000 , Vienna. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Kelley (artist)
Michael Kelley (October 27, 1954 – January 31, 2012) was an American artist whose work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance, photography, sound and video. He also worked on curatorial projects; collaborated with many other artists and musicians; and left a formidable body of critical and creative writing. He often worked collaboratively and had produced projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and John Miller. Writing in ''The New York Times'', in 2012, Holland Cotter described the artist as "one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion." Early life Kelley was born in Wayne, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, to a working class Roman Catholic family in October 1954. Holland Cotter,Mike Kelley, an Artist with Attitude, Dies at 57" ''The New York Times'', Feb 1, 2012, accessed April 22, 2012. His father was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry (; born December 26, 1977, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Education Lassry attended the California Institute of the Arts for film and visual art. He received his BFA from CalArts in 2003 and his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2007. At USC, his instructors included Sharon Lockhart and Frances Stark. Work Lassry defines his practice as consumed with "pictures" — generic images culled from vintage picture magazines and film archives, redeploying them in a variety of media, including photography, film, drawing and sculpture. Leaving little distance between the commercial and the analytical, he is sometimes described as a post-Pictures Generation artist. Photography Starting with popular modes of production such as magazine advertising, he uses silk-screening and photography to revive iconic art-historical arrangements, such as the pairing of mother and child or the arrangement of fruit a convention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Halley
Peter Halley (born 1953) is an American artist and a central figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. Known for his Day-Glo geometric paintings, Halley is also a writer, the former publisher of ''index Magazine'', and a teacher; he served as director of graduate studies in painting and printmaking at the Yale University School of Art from 2002 to 2011. Halley lives and works in New York City. Introduction Halley came to prominence as an artist in the mid-1980s, as part of the generation of Neo-Conceptualist artists that first exhibited in New York's East Village, including Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Sarah Charlesworth, Annette Lemieux, Steven Parrino, Philip Taaffe, Phillip Taaffe, and Gretchen Bender. Halley's paintings explore both the physical and psychological structures of social space; he connects the hermetic language of geometric abstraction—as practiced by artists such as Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly—to the actualities of urban space and the digi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gober
Robert Gober (born September 12, 1954) is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs. Early life and education Gober was born in Wallingford, Connecticut.Robert Gober , New York. Gober settled in New York in 1976 and initially earned his living as a carpenter, crafting stretchers for artists and renovating lofts.Robert Gober |
Urs Fischer (artist)
Urs Fischer (born 1973) is a Swiss-born contemporary visual artist living in New York City and Los Angeles. Fischer’s practice includes sculpture, installation, photography, and digitally-mediated images. Early life and education Born to two doctors as the second of two children in 1973, Fischer studied at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich, Switzerland. After the basic, first-year course in art and design, he enrolled in the school's photography department, and supported himself by working as a bouncer at Zurich night clubs and house parties. Career Fischer moved to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1993, aged 19, and had his first solo show at a gallery in Zurich in 1996. He later lived in London, Los Angeles, and Berlin, before moving to New York City. In Berlin and New York, he shared studios with fellow artist Rudolf Stingel. In 2009 Fischer's studio occupied a large warehouse in the Red Hook, Brooklyn, Red Hook section of Brooklyn, near the waterfront.Calvin Tomkins (Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haris Epaminonda
Haris Epaminonda (born 1980 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is an artist living and working in Berlin. Career Solo and group exhibitions include: The Museum of Modern Art, Aspen Art Museum, The New Museum, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Tate Modern, Secession Building, Secession, Modern Art Oxford, Le Plateau (FRAC) d’Île-de-France, Kunsthaus Zürich, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Hammer Museum, Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, Querini Stampalia, Site Gallery, Malmö Konsthall, The Renaissance Society, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Hamburger Bahnhof, Badischer Kunstverein, Museo Madre, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, as well as at Documenta 13, Manifesta, Berlin Biennale, São Paulo Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, Athens Biennale, Pune Biennale and Venice Biennale. At the 2019 Venice Biennale, Epaminonda won the Silver Lion for promising young participant in the central exhibition. Art market Epaminonda is rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
