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Bronwyn Keenan Gallery
Bronwyn Keenan Gallery (1995–2004) was an art gallery located initially at 494 Broadway and finally at #3 Crosby Street, in the SoHo district of New York City. Run by Bronx-born Bronwyn Keenan, the gallery showed emerging artists from the mid to late 1990s and into the early 2000s. Many now notable artists had early shows there including Carol Bove, Ion Birch, Jeremy Blake, Mari Eastman, Eve Sussman, Liz Deschenes, Michael Ashkin, Brad Kahlhamer Brad Kahlhamer (born 1956) is an artist known for his multi-media practice, ranging from sculpture and painting to performance and music. He is currently based in New York City, working from his studio in Brooklyn. His work has been collected by i ..., Mark Bennett, Enoc Perez, Michael Seymour, Katherine Bernhardt, Guy Overfelt and others. Bronwyn Keenan began her career in art at Christie's East. After the Bronwyn Keenan Gallery closed, she went on to direct special events at the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoHo
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century. The area was developed from farmland by Henry VIII in 1536, when it became a royal park. It became a parish in its own right in the late 17th century, when buildings started to be developed for the upper class, including the laying out of Soho Square in the 1680s. St Anne's Church was established during the late 17th century, and remains a significant local landmark; other churches are the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory and St Patrick's Church in Soho Square. The aristocracy had mostly moved away by the mid-19th century, when Soho was particularly badly hit by an outbreak of cholera in 1854. For much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation as a base for the sex industry in addition to its night life and its location for the headquarte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Bove
Carol Bove (born 1971) is an American artist based in New York City. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Early life and education Born in 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland to American parents, Bove (pronounced bo-VAY) was raised in Berkeley, California, moved to New York in the 1990s, and graduated from New York University in 2000. New York; the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and the Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ..., New Haven, Connecticut. References External links"5 Triumphant National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale, From Finnish Robots to Canadian Floods"by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, artnet.com, May 2017by Randy Kennedy, ''The New York Times'', November 2016"In the Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Birch
Ion Birch (born 1971 in New York, NY) is a contemporary American artist who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Work Birch has worked in the mediums of drawing and painting. Often incorporating black humor and caricature A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, a ..., he creates unusual images that evoke poetic narratives, these works involve a high degree of subjectivity and are often cryptic in their meaning. Birch is best known for his graphite on paper works which incorporate phallic symbols and other erotic imagery. He has stated that these works are a meditation on the nature of repression. Birch has been grouped within broader trends of figurative and conceptual art that focus on contemporary perceptions of the body and sexuality.Ion Birch in "Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Sussman
Eve Sussman is a British-born American artist of film, video, installation, sculpture, and photography. She was educated at Robert College of Istanbul, University of Canterbury, and Bennington College. She resides in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York, where her company, the Rufus Corporation, is based. She visits cultural centers around the world where her exhibitions take place. Work Sussman's first solo show was at the Bronwyn Keenan Gallery in SoHo, Manhattan, SoHo in 1997. In 2003 Sussman began working in collaboration with The Rufus Corporation, an international ad hoc ensemble of performers, artists, and musicians. She produced the motion picture and video art pieces ''89 Seconds at Alcázar'' (2004) and The Rape of the Sabine Women (2006 film), ''The Rape of the Sabine Women'' (2007). Sussman translates well known masterworks into her large scale re-enactments. ''89 Seconds at Alcázar'' is a 10-minute, continuously flowing single take that meticulously creates the mome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ashkin
Michael Ashkin is an American artist who makes sculptures, videos, photographs and installations depicting marginalized, desolate landscapes. He is a professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Ashkin was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. Ashkin is best known for his use of miniature scale and modest materials. He had his first solo show in 1996, and his floor sculpture called ''No. 49,'' was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. His work has been featured at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Vienna Secession, and in Documenta11 in Germany. Ashkin authored ''Garden State'', a book which compares the New Jersey Meadowlands to a formal garden. In 2014, A-Jump Books published Ashkin's Long Branch' a book of photographs and text documenting the destruction of a New Jersey neighborhood and in 201TIS Bookspublished a book of photographs from Berlin entitled ''Horizont''. 2019 saw the release of ''were it not for'' froFW:Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Kahlhamer
Brad Kahlhamer (born 1956) is an artist known for his multi-media practice, ranging from sculpture and painting to performance and music. He is currently based in New York City, working from his studio in Brooklyn. His work has been collected by institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, the Hood Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others. Career Kahlhamer was born in Tucson, Arizona, United States. As an infant he was adopted by German-American parents and grew up in Wisconsin. Because his adoption records were sealed at the time of his birth, he does not know who he descends from and cannot be enrolled in any Native nations. His artistic career took form, first as a road musician throughout the midwest for ten years and later in 1982 graduating with a BFA from the Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Bernhardt
Katherine Bernhardt (born 1975; Clayton, Missouri) is an artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. Work and career Bernhardt received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Bernhardt is known for painting consumer symbols, tropical animals, and every day objects over bright flat fields of color in an expressionistic and almost abstract style. Previous bodies of work include Moroccan rug-inspired paintings and collages made in collaborations with her (now ex)husband Youssef Jdia, as well as her "model" paintings, which were loose portraits based on images of supermodels from high fashion magazines. Bernhardt has also been involved in numerous collaborations within the art and fashion industries. In 2015, Bernhardt was one of five artists asked to contribute to W Magazine's annual "Art Issue" featuring artwork inspired by rapper Drake. Bernhardt also produced a in-store installa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Overfelt
Guy Overfelt (born 1977, in Baltimore) is an American multi-disciplinary post-conceptual artist. He works with various media including sculpture, performance, photography, video and drawing. He is based in San Francisco and Bolinas, California. Biography Overfelt received a B.F.A. degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art; and an M.F.A. degree from San Francisco Art Institute. Best known for his burnout works made using a 1977 Pontiac Trans AM as an artist's utensil and subject matter, San Francisco-based Guy Overfelt’s projects are raucous explorations of the American Dream via car culture. His body of work presents a special mix of printmaking, performance and sculpture that investigates the modern industrial complex by expropriating the symbolic brands of automotive corporations. Guy Overfelt’s work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums including the Oakland Museum of California; Guangzhou Triennial, China; St. Mary's University, Halifa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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