Art Production Fund
Art Production Fund (APF) is a non-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code that presents public art throughout the United States. It was founded in 2000 by Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen. it is directed by Casey Fremont. Public projects This is a select list of public art projects by APF. *Fatimah Tuggar, "Changing Space," New York, New York, 2002 *Elmgreen & Dragset, “Prada Marfa,” Valentine, Texas, 2005–ongoing * Rudolf Stingel, "Plan B," Grand Central Station, New York City, 2004 *Tim Noble and Sue Webster, "Electric Fountain," Rockefeller Center, New York City, 2008 * David Brooks, Josephine Meckseper, Kiki Smith, "The Last Lot," New York City, 2011–2012 *FriendsWithYou, "Light Cave," New York City, 2014 *Ugo Rondinone, “Seven Magic Mountains,” Las Vegas, 2016–ongoing *Jeff Koons, “Seated Ballerina,” Rockefeller Center, New York City, 2017 * Zoe Buckman, “CHAMP,” LA, 2018–ongoing * Raul de Nieves, “When I Look In ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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501(c)(3) Organization
A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, Trust (business), trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 501(c) organization, 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the US. 501(c)(3) tax-exemptions apply to entities that are organized and operated exclusively for religion, religious, Charitable organization, charitable, science, scientific, literature, literary or educational purposes, for Public security#Organizations, testing for public safety, to foster national or international amateur sports competition, or for the prevention of Child abuse, cruelty to children or Cruelty to animals, animals. 501(c)(3) exemption applies also for any non-incorporated Community Chest (organization), community chest, fund, Cooperating Associations, cooperating association or foundation organized and operated exclusively for those purposes. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 commerce, commercial buildings covering between 48th Street (Manhattan), 48th Street and 51st Street (Manhattan), 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The 14 original Art Deco buildings, commissioned by the Rockefeller family, span the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Sixth Avenue, split by a large sunken square and a private street called Rockefeller Plaza. Later additions include 75 Rockefeller Plaza across 51st Street at the north end of Rockefeller Plaza, and four International Style (architecture), International Style buildings on the west side of Sixth Avenue. In 1928, the site's then-owner, Columbia University, leased the land to John D. Rockefeller Jr., who was the main person behind the complex's construction. Originally envisioned as the site for a new Metropolitan Opera building, the current Rockefeller Center came about after the Met could not afford to move to the proposed new ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nancy Baker Cahill
Nancy Baker Cahill (born 1970) is an American New media art, new media artist based in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.Selvin, Claire"Who Will Shape the Art World in 2021?: ARTnews Presents 'The Deciders', Nancy Davis Cahill,"''ARTnews'', December 1, 2020. Retrieved 2022-11-28. She works in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), drawing and video, among other media.Neel, Tucker"Nancy Baker Cahill Challenges the Limits of Perception Seeing the World Anew,"''Artillery'', March 8, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-28. Her work often merges technology and public art, examining notions of the human, the body in relation to systems of power, issues involving art and access, and perception. Education and career Baker Cahill was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Boston.Kent, Charlotte"How Artists Are Seizing the NFT Moment to Transform the Debate About Tech and the Environment,"''Artnet'', August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2022-11-28. She received a BA in art from Williams Co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lucy Sparrow
Lucy Sparrow (born 8 July 1986) is a contemporary artist originating from Bath, England. She works at the intersection of contemporary art and craft setting the agenda for textiles within the urban art scene. She works mainly with felt and wool, creating life-sized replicas in addition to oversized soft versions of existing objects. Her work often features the SSRI prescription drug Prozac and often features Sparrows interpretations of the retail environment, the intricacies of product branding throughout the modern era and her full-sized representations of supermarkets. In the early stages of her career, Sparrow was involved in a number of notable group shows in the UK. She was a contributor to the Victoria and Albert Museum 2013 travelling street art collection alongside Banksy, Blek le Rat, Jamie Hewlett, Pure Evil, D*Face and urban illustrator Oh Jiwon. Her first solo show at Hoxton Gallery was ''Imitation'', which recreated famous artworks out of felt, including a shark i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raúl De Nieves
Raul de Nieves (born 1983, Michoacán, Mexico) is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Early life De Nieves grew up in Michoacán, Mexico. His father passed away when de Nieves was two. Several years later, de Nieves and his family emigrated to San Diego, San Diego, CA. At 20, de Nieves was accepted to the California College of the Arts, but decided against paying the tuition fees and instead moved to San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco's Mission District, San Francisco, Mission District. He worked at an antiques shop called Gypsy Honeymoon and soon met fellow artist and sculptor Stewart Uoo. Work De Nieve's showed first series of paintings, ''St George and the Dragon'' (2003–05), in 2005 at the back room of the Gypsy Honeymoon. The following year, de Nieves moved to New York and exhibited new sculptures, shoes, at Newman Popiashvili. In 2014, he completed his first life-sized work, ''Day(ves) of Wonder'', which returned ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zoë Buckman
Zoë Buckman (born 13 September 1985) is an English artist, photographer and writer. Early life Buckman was born in Hackney, East London, England, to Jennie Buckman, an acting teacher and playwright, and Nick Blatchley, a government health official. Her uncle is Peter Buckman, an English writer and literary agent. Artwork ''Heavy Rag'' ''Heavy Rag'' examines the dichotomy of boxing, a sport in which gloves are used to harm, as well as for protection. The body of work was Buckman's first exhibition to open since her mother's passing, and was greatly inspired by Louise Bourgeois’ textile works. Although the themes in this exhibition are not very celebratory, the colorful and warm fabrics that Buckman uses throughout her punching bags, glove clusters and flatworks, remind her of her mother and grandmother. ''Present Life'' ''Present Life'' examines the temporary nature and beauty of life from the focal-point of the exhibit, Buckman's plastinated placenta. After the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jeff Koons
Jeffrey Lynn Koons (; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror- finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least two record auction prices for a work by a living artist: US$58.4 million for '' Balloon Dog (Orange)'' in 2013 and US$91.1 million for ''Rabbit'' in 2019. Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch, crass, and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons has stated that there are no hidden meanings and critiques in his works. Early life Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania, to Henry and Gloria Koons. His fatherWood, Gaby (June 3, 2007)"The wizard of odd" ''The Guardian''. was a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone (born November 30, 1964) is a Swiss-born artist widely recognized for his mastery of several different media—most prominently sculpture, drawing and painting, but also photography, architecture, video and sound installation—in the largely figurative works he has made for exhibitions in galleries, museums and outdoor public spaces around the world. He has never limited himself to a particular material, no more than he has to a single discipline. Lead, wood, wax, bronze, stained glass, ink, paint, soil and stone are all tools in a creative arsenal that the artist has employed to extend the Romantic tradition in works that are as sensitive to the passage of time as to the nuances of body language and the spoken word. Rondinone is widely known for his temporary, large-scale land art sculpture, ''Seven Magic Mountains (2016–2021),'' with its seven fluorescently-painted totems of large, car-size stones stacked high. Early life and education Ugo Rondinon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FriendsWithYou
FriendsWithYou (FWY) is an art collaboration founded in 2002 and based in Los Angeles, California. History FriendsWithYou was founded in Miami, Florida by Samuel Albert Borkson (b.1979, Plantation, Florida) and Arturo Sandoval III (born 1976, Havana, Cuba). In 2002, which seeks to redesign spirituality, rituals, and religious acts for modern-day usage and connectivity. FriendsWithYou's mission coincides with their motto "Magic, Luck, and Friendship." The collaborative began by creating soft sculptures as a means to spread more accessible art like plush and wood toys, as well as immersive art installations, fine artworks including sculpture and painting, and are best known for their public art spectacles such as large-scale art installations, playgrounds, and performance pieces. They have described the creation of their art as a healing process intended to increase relatability and connection to each other and the world around them. To date, they have become internationally rec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in the Lower East Side, New York City, and the Hudson Valley, New York State. Early life and education Smith's father was artist Tony Smith and her mother was actress and opera singer Jane Lawrence. Although Kiki's work takes a very different form than that of her parents, early exposure to her father's process of making geometric sculptures allowed her to experience formal craftsmanship firsthand. Her childhood experience in the Catholic Church, combined with a fascination for the human body, shaped her work conceptually. Smith moved from Germany to South Orange, New Jersey, as an infant in 1955. She subsequently attended Columbia High Scho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Josephine Meckseper
Josephine Meckseper (born 1964) is a German artist, active mainly in New York City. Her large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in various international biennials and museum shows worldwide. Life and education Meckseper studied at Berlin University of the Arts in Germany from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992, where she was influenced by artists Michael Asher and Charles Gaines, filmmaker Thom Andersen and literary critic and cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer. Work Between 1994 and 2000, she was editor of four issues of ''FAT'' magazine. Her questions as a conceptual artist include power politics and political ideas as commodities. In 2007 she spoke in Der Spiegel about the position of women in the art scene. In 2012, her public art project ''Manhattan Oil Project'', commissioned by the Art Production Fund, was installed on the corner of 46th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City. In 2022, she received a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Brooks (artist)
David Brooks (born 1975) is an artist based in New York City. He won the Rome Prize in 2019. He was featured in the Art21 series on PBS. Work Brooks' work explores the interaction between humans and their natural and synthetic environments. His past projects include a dissembled combine harvester at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and a buried tractor at the Storm King Art Center Storm King Art Center, commonly referred to as Storm King and named after its proximity to Storm King Mountain, is an open-air museum located in New Windsor, New York. It contains what is perhaps the largest collection of contemporary outdo .... He created ''Desert Rooftops'', as part of an Art Production Fund commission in the Last Lot in Times Square. References External links * 1975 births Living people American artists {{US-artist-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |