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The Billboard Creative
The Billboard Creative is an organization that places art by established and emerging artists from around the world on otherwise empty billboards at major junctions across the city of Los Angeles.Billboards Across L.A. Are Becoming Public Art Spaces , September 18, 2018 The Billboard Creative was founded in 2015 by Adam Santelli the Founding Director, with Kim Kerscher, Director and Mona Kuhn, Creative Director. The Billboard Creative is a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TBC LOGO
TBC may refer to: Education * Trinity Bible College in North Dakota, US * Tauranga Boys' College, a state secondary school in Tauranga, New Zealand Companies * Triangle Brewing Company of Durham, North Carolina, US * Tram et Bus de la CUB (TBC), now Transports Bordeaux Métropole, the operator of three tram lines and a bus network in Bordeaux, France * TBC Bank, a private bank in Republic of Georgia * TBC Corporation, parent company of National Tire and Battery and other tire retailers and distributors * The Beistle Company of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, US * The Boring Company of Elon Musk, in California, US Medicine * Tuberculosis, lethal, infectious disease common before World War II Radio and television * Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation, official Tanzanian broadcaster known as TBC * Taegu Broadcasting Corporation, a South Korean local broadcasting company * Tohoku Broadcasting Company, a Sendai, Japan, TV/radio station * Tonga Broadcasting Commission * Tongyang Broadca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Weekly
''LA Weekly'' is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin, who served as president and editor until 1991. Voice Media Group sold the paper in late 2017 to Semanal Media LLC, whose parent company is listed as Street Media. The current Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director is Darrick Rainey. It covers Los Angeles music, arts, film, theater, culture, concerts, and events. In 1979 they established the LA Weekly Theater Awards which awards small theatre productions (99 seats or less) in Los Angeles. Starting in 2006, ''LA Weekly'' has hosted the LA Weekly Detour Music Festival every October. The entire block surrounding Los Angeles City Hall is closed off to accommodate the festival's three stages. Some of its best known writers were Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold, who left in early 2012, and Nikki Finke, who blogged about the film industry through the ''Weekly'' website and published a print column in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick (born January 1, 1967) is an American photographer best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994, he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world. Life and career Spencer Tunick was born in Middletown, Orange County, New York into a Jewish family. His father Earl owned a keychain photo-viewer franchise in the Catskills. In 1986, he visited London, where he took photographs of a nude at a bus stop and of scores of nudes in Alleyn's School's Lower School Hall in Dulwich, Southwark. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emerson College in 1988. Photography In 1992, Tunick began documenting live nudes in public locations in New York through video and photographs. His early works from this period focus more on a single nude individual or small groups of nudes. Tunick cites 1994, when he posed and photographed 28 nude people in front of the headquarters of the United Nations in midtown Manhattan, as a turning point in his career; "It all s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Slota
Gerald Slota (born 1965) is an American artist and photographer who has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally. Slota is represented by the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City and the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles. He is known for a deconstructed style of working with his own or found photographs and drawing, cutting, and transforming the images. His first book, ''Gerald Slota: Story'' with Joyce Carole Oates and Chuck Mobley was selected as one of the ''New York Times'' "Top Ten Photo Books of 2012". Slota's works have been included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Norton Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum, and as a billboard with the 2018 Los Angeles Billboard Creative Show and in numerous private collections. He has been commissioned to create original editorial artwork by many national and international publications including the New York Times Magazine, The Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Simmons
Laurie may refer to: Places * Laurie, Cantal, France, a commune * Laurie, Missouri, United States, a village * Laurie Island, Antarctica Music * Laurie Records, a record label * ''Laurie'' (EP), a 1992 album by Daniel Johnston * "Laurie (Strange Things Happen)", a 1965 tragic ballad by Dickey Lee People and fictional characters * Laurie (surname) * Laurie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters Other uses * Laurie baronets, three titles, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom * ''Tillandsia'' 'Laurie', a hybrid cultivar * "Laurie" (short story), a 2018 short story by Stephen King See also * Lawrie * Lauri (other) * Lauria (other) * Lourie * Lurie Lurie is often a Jewish surname, but also an Irish and English surname. The name is sometimes transliterated from/to other languages as Lurye, Luriye (from Russian), Lourié (in French). Other variants include: Lurey (surname), Loria, Luria, ... [...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 . Style Her photographs and works often include ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Miller (artist)
Steve Miller (born October 12, 1951 in Buffalo, New York) is a multi-media artist, who makes paintings, screenprints, artist books, and sculptures. Through his art he explores the influence of science and technology on modern culture. Education Miller received his BA in 1973 from Middlebury College, and also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1973. Career Steve Miller has lived and worked between New York City and Eastern Long Island since 1975. His career trajectory consists of over 50 solo exhibitions at venues such as the National Academy of Sciences, the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Rose Art Museum, the Centre International d’Art Visuels CARGO in Marseilles, and the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the New Museum, the Bronx Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Everson Museum of Art. Guild Hall and the Parrish Art Museum. In 2004 Miller was a New York Foundation for the arts p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Kolb
Marianne Kolb (born 1958 in Bern), a Swiss painter who lives in California, is known for her emotional figurative paintings. Kolb paints directly onto the canvas with her hands, placing her figures in isolation on a monochromatic, textured background. In regard to her figurative work, the artist stated that "The human figure is the vehicle with which I can most positively relate." Kolb has also stated that the imagery, "derives from direct observation of individuals transmuted by her own feelings which become fully known to her during the painting process." Kolb's work has been located within a legacy of Northern European paintings (including artists such as Edvard Munch and Francis Bacon), although journalist and art critic Daniella Walsh describes Kolb's work as exhibiting "quieter, inner angst…..To the enlightenment or distress of her audience, Kolb paints the soul." Kolb's work is part of the permanent collection of the Boise Art Museum. Kolb is a member of the California S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Harris
Naomi Harris (born May 26, 1973) is a Canadian photographer living in Toronto. She is known for her portraits of people from sub-cultures such as retirement communities and nudist beaches. Biography Harris was born in Toronto and obtained a Bachelor in Fine Arts (BFA) from York University. After completing her degree, she moved to New York City where she received her photographic training at the International Center of Photography. Professionally, several of her personal projects were shot while on road trips, resulting in solo exhibitions and accompanying books. Her work has also been published in the ''New York Times Magazine'' as well as the London ''Sunday Times Magazine,'' ''The Telegraph Magazine,'' ''Marie Claire UK,'', ''Vice (magazine), Vice'', and ''Newsweek''. Additionally, Harris taught classes at her alma mater, the International Center of Photography. ''Haddon Hall Hotel'' Harris moved to Miami Beach in December 1999 to begin her first personal project documenting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Blanch
Andrea Blanch, is an American portrait, commercial, and fine art photographer. Blanch was born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, New York. She graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Painting. After working under Richard Avedon, Blanch embarked on her own career with Vogue and Elle, later diversifying to celebrity portraits and editorial work. Blanch has had photographs featured on the album covers and in Rolling Stone magazine. Her commercial clients have included Gucci, Bergdorf Goodman, Adrienne Vittadini. After contributing to books, ''Italian Men: Love and Sex'' was published in 1998. ''Italian Men'' is a compendium of interviews and photographs of Famous Italian men Including Giorgio Armani, Valentino Garavani, Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti (, , ; 12 October 19356 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Steinkamp
Jennifer Steinkamp (born December 22, 1958) is an American installation artist who works with video and new media in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception. Life and career Born in Denver, Colorado in 1958, Steinkamp is the eldest of five children, three girls and two boys. Her family lived in a number of areas before settling in Edina, Minnesota. In 1979, Steinkamp moved to Los Angeles to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, studying with Mike Kelley, Gene Youngblood, and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. She then transferred to the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied experimental animation. Steinkamp returned to Art Center to earn her BFA in 1989 and her MFA in 1991. In 2011, Art Center recognized Steinkamp with an Honorary Doctorate. She is currently a professor in the department of Design Media Arts at UCLA. Steinkamp uses digital projection to transform architectural space, providing the viewer with a synaesthetic experi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Prager
Alex Prager (born 1979) is an American photographer and filmmaker, based in Los Angeles. She makes staged color photographs.Johnson, Ken (March 19, 2010) ''The New York Times''. Early life Prager was born in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. She dropped out of school at sixteen. Career She took up photography after viewing an exhibition of William Eggleston's at the Getty Museum when she was age 21. She is self-taught. In 2005, Prager created a group of works, ''The Book of Disquiet'', as an exhibition and joint publication with artist Mercedes Helnwein. She exhibited ''Polyester'' in 2007, which focused on what is now described as her signature cinematic styled portraits set in Los Angeles. Her next series, ''The Big Valley'', was shown in 2008. In 2010 Prager exhibited ''Week-End'' as well as debuted her first short film, ''Despair''. ''Despair'' was conceived in London during ''The Big Valley'' exhibition, where viewers were inquiring what happened before and after to the subjects in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
