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Daniel S. Palmer
Daniel S. Palmer (born July 27, 1984) is an American curator and art historian. Palmer is currently Chief Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art. He was previously the Curator at Public Art Fund, New York, where he organized 18 exhibitions from 2016 to 2022. Before that, he held the position of the Leon Levy Assistant Curator at the Jewish Museum, New York and was a curatorial research assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He received his PhD in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2021. He also holds a M.Phil in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center and a BA from Rutgers University. Career Palmer has curated numerous exhibitions, including: '' Harold Ancart: Subliminal Standard'', ''Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales, Awol Erizku: New Visions for Iris'', and ''Melvin Edwards: Brighter Days'', as well as exhibitions with Sam Moyer, Davina Semo, Jean-Marie Appriou, Tony Oursler, B. Wurtz, Erwin Wurm, Ai Weiwei, Liz Glynn, and others for Public Art Fund. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curator
A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission. In recent years the role of curator has evolved alongside the changing role of museums, and the term "curator" may designate the head of any given division. More recently, new kinds of curators have started to emerge: "community curators", "literary curators", " digital curators" and " biocurators". Collections curator A "collections curator", a "museum curator" or a "keeper" of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material including historical artifacts. A collections curator's concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort—artwork, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davina Semo
Davina Semo is an American artist (b. 1981, Washington DC) working in sculpture. She completed her MFA at the University of California, San Diego in 2006 and a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University in 2003. Life and work Semo is best known for sculpture that embraces industrial construction materials like glass, concrete, and chain. She has exhibited solo shows of her work at galleries Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Marlborough Gallery, New York, and Ribordy Thetaz, Geneva, among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Arts Commission, Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), the Sculpture Center (New York), and 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, curated by Bob Nickas. In 2019, Semo had sculptural work exhibited alongside the painter Deborah Remington at Parts & Labor Beacon, NY. Public art In 2014, Semo installed a concrete-bunker-like building across from Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Hornig
Sabine Hornig (born 1964, West Germany) is a German visual artist and photographer who lives and works in Berlin. Her work in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation art is known for her interpretations of modernist architecture and contemporary urban life. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions throughout the world, including ''Double Transparency'' at Art Unlimited Basel in Switzerland (2014) and ''Projects 78'' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2003), and in numerous group exhibitions at institutions like the J.Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and ICA London. Hornig's work is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Cleveland Clinic, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and Malmö Konstmuseet in Sweden. Education Hornig studied sculpture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeppe Hein
Jeppe Hein (born 1974, Copenhagen, Denmark) is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen.Biography at Johann König His s and installations combine elements of humour with the 1970s traditions of and |
Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze (; born 1969) is an American artist widely recognized for challenging the boundaries of painting, installation, and architecture. Sze's sculptural practice ranges from slight gestures discovered in hidden spaces to expansive installations that scale walls and colonize architectures. Sze's work explores the role of technology and information in contemporary life utilizing everyday materials. Drawing from Modernist traditions, Sze's work often represents objects caught in suspension. Sze lives and works in New York City and is a professor of visual arts at Columbia University. Early life and education Sze was born in Boston in 1969. Sze attributes her approach to seeing the world to growing up around models and plans and to regular discussions of buildings and cities. She received a BA in Architecture and Painting from Yale University in 1991 and an MFA from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1997. Career Sze draws from Modernist traditions of the found object, to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Owens
Laura Owens (born 1970) is an American painter, gallery owner and educator. She emerged in the late 1990s from the Los Angeles art scene. She is known for large-scale paintings that combine a variety of art historical references and painterly techniques. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. In 2013, she turned her studio work space into an exhibition space called ''356 Mission'', in collaboration with art dealer Gavin Brown and Wendy Yao. Soon after, she hosted a second location with the art bookstore ''Ooga Booga #2'' in the front of the building. The ''356 Mission'' art space closed in 2019, due to the lease ending. In 2003 Owens had her first survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Owens’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna (2015); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2011); Bonnefanten Museum (2007); Kunsthalle Zürich (2006); Camden Arts Centre, London (2006); Milwaukee Art Museum (2003); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moynihan Train Hall
Moynihan Train Hall is an expansion of Pennsylvania Station, the main intercity and commuter rail station in New York City, into the city's former main post office building, the James A. Farley Building. Located between Eighth Avenue, Ninth Avenue, 31st Street, and 33rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, the annex provides new access to most of Penn Station's platforms for Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road passengers, serving 17 of the station's 21 tracks. The hall is named after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the U.S. Senator who had originally championed the plan. The building's exterior resembles that of the original Penn Station; both buildings were designed by the same architect, McKim, Mead & White, in the Beaux-Arts style. The complex was built to alleviate congestion in Penn Station, which saw 650,000 daily riders before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The $1.6 billion renovation restored the Beaux-Arts Farley Building, a designated landmark, and added a central atrium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley (born February 28, 1977) he returned to Nigeria, leaving Freddie to raise the couple's six children. 3/sup> Wiley has said that his family survived on welfare checks and the limited income earned by his mother's 'thrift store' – which consisted of a patch of sidewalk outside their home. 4/sup> Wiley traveled to Nigeria at the age of 20 to meet his father and explore his family roots there. 5/sup> He was strongly influenced by seeing the works of Gainsborough and Constable. He earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999 and then received a scholarship to complete his MFA at Yale University School of Art in 2001. While at art school, he says that the most important lesson he learned was to create art that he wanted to make, not art that his professors wanted him to make. /sup> Before becoming an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 6/sup> which Wiley has later stated "made imthe artist eis today." 7/sup>Jeffrey Deitch, an art de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining the "failed utopia" of modernism and obsolete technologies. He has exhibited internationally, including Documenta IX, 1992, Documenta X, 1997, Documenta XI, 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001, 2005 and 2019. Douglas was chosen to represent Canada in the 2021 Venice Biennale. Art collector Friedrich Christian Flick, in the foreword to the ''Stan Douglas'' monograph, describes Douglas as "a critical analysis of our social reality. Samuel Beckett and Marcel Proust, E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Brothers Grimm, blues and free jazz, television and Hollywood, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud haunt the uncanny montages of the Canadian artist." Background Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he currently lives and works. Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmgreen & Dragset
Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design. Elmgreen & Dragset live and work in Berlin. They are known for art work that has wit and subversive humour, and also addresses social and cultural concerns. Life and work The duo met in Copenhagen in 1994, when Michael Elmgreen, who was born in the city in 1961, was writing and performing poetry, and Ingar Dragset, a Norwegian born in 1969, was studying theatre.Daniel Kunitz (November 22, 2012)''Art+Auction''. They started collaborating in 1995 and moved to Berlin in 1997. In 2006, they bought a large 1000m2 former water-pumping station dating to 1924 in Berlin's Neukölln borough from the city and converted it into a studio.Wenin, Samila, "Art through irony", in ''The Bangkok Post'', 15 September 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-08. In 2008, Elmgreen moved to London, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Glynn
Liz Glynn (born 1981) is an American artist. She is originally from Boston and now works out of Los Angeles. Much of her work is sculptural and installation-based, incorporating found objects and materials. Her work deals with institutional critique, collecting practices, antiquity, monument-building, and the concept of material value. Many of her installations encourage public engagement and participatory performance among her audiences. She is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery in New York. Early life and education Glynn was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard College in 2003 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 2008. Work Sculptural work Glynn is known for replicating objects of antiquity with histories that she has researched extensively using minimal materials and in a somewhat primitive manner. The works are not about perfect replication or recreating an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of " tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, for "economic crimes". He was detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators. Ai Weiwei encapsulates political conviction and his personal poetry in his many sculptures, photographs, and public works. In doing this, he makes use of Chinese art fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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