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Drew Heitzler
Drew Heitzler (born 1972) is an American artist best known for his film and video work. Heitzler lives and works in Venice, California. Early life and work Heitzler was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He received his BA from Fordham University in New York City in 1993. Heitzler studied at the Slade School in London before receiving an MFA in studio art from Hunter College in New York in 2000. In 2002, he was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine. Heitzler lived and worked in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn before relocating to Los Angeles in 2004. Heitzler's first film, ''Subway Sessions'', was screened at Anthology Film Archives in 2002. His film ''TSOYW'', made in collaboration with Amy Granat and Olivier Mosset was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Additionally, his work was included in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art and has been included in exhibitions and screenings at MoMA PS1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice, Los Angeles
Venice is a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California. Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it was annexed by Los Angeles. Venice is known for its canals, a beach, and Ocean Front Walk, a pedestrian promenade that features performers, fortune-tellers, and vendors. History 19th century In 1839, a region called La Ballona that included the southern parts of Venice, was granted by the Mexican government to Ygnacio and Augustin Machado and Felipe and Tomas Talamantes, giving them title to Rancho La Ballona. Later this became part of Port Ballona. Founding Venice, originally called "Venice of America", was founded by wealthy developer Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town, west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis Ryan had bought of ocean-front property south of Santa Monica in 1891. They built a resort town on the north end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar. Bengi Unsal became the director in 2022. History The ICA was founded by Roland Penrose, Peter Watson, Herbert Read, Peter Gregory, Geoffrey Grigson and E. L. T. Mesens in 1946. The ICA's founders intended to establish a space where artists, writers and scientists could debate ideas outside the traditional confines of the Royal Academy. The model for establishing the ICA was the earlier Leeds Arts Club, founded in 1903 by Alfred Orage, of which Herbert Read had been a leading member. Like the ICA, this too was a centre for multi-disciplinary debate, combined with avant-garde art exhibition and performances, within a framework that emphasised a radical social outlook. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allyson Vieira
Allyson Vieira is an American artist living and working in New York City, New York. She is primarily known for her sculptural works and drawings. She was born in Massachusetts in 1979. Vieira studied art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001, and studied sculpture at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College, receiving her Master of Fine Arts in 2009. Vieira is represented bLaurel Gitlen Galleryin New York City. Vieira's drawings were published ibEvil Twin Publications Solo exhibitions *2010 "Ozymandias," Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York *2007 "Untitled Book (Geometry + Democracy)," Klaus Von Nichtsaagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Book Release *2006 "Allyson Vieira," Small A Projects, Portland, OR Selected group exhibitions *2010 "Knight’s Move," SculptureCenter SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit, contemporary art museum located in Long Island City, Queens, New York City. It was founded in 1928 ... [...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] |
Bjorn Copeland
Black Dice is an American experimental noise music band based in Brooklyn, New York and consisting of brothers Bjorn and Eric Copeland along with Aaron Warren. Formed in 1997, the group was initially inspired by hardcore and noise rock, but subsequently shifted toward the extensive use of signal processing, effects units, and electronic instrumentation. They released their debut album ''Beaches & Canyons'' in 2002. They have recorded for labels such as DFA, Fat Cat, and Animal Collective's Paw Tracks. History Early years Black Dice formed in spring 1997 soon after guitarist Bjorn Copeland met drummer Hisham Bharoocha and bassist Sebastian Blanck when they were students at the Rhode Island School of Design. Eric Copeland (vocals) was still attending high school in Maine and would visit on weekends. Early shows seldom lasted more than fifteen minutes and were characterized by violent performances where injuries were often sustained by the band and audience alike. Live sets mixed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Fleury
Sylvie Fleury (born 24 June 1961) is a Swiss contemporary pop art, pop artist known for her Installation art, installations, sculpture, and mixed media. Her work generally depicts objects with sentimental and aesthetic attachments in Consumerism, consumer culture, as well as the paradigm of the New Age, new age, with much of her work specifically addressing issues of gendered consumption and the fetishistic relationships to consumer objects and art history. Fleury lives and works in Geneva. Biography Sylvie Fleury was born on June 24, 1961, in Geneva, Switzerland. After her initial schooling, her parents sent her to New York City to work as an au pair. She ended up falling in with a group of NYU students working on short art films. She then went on to study photography at the Germain School of Photography in 1981. While living in New York she worked as an assistant for fashion photographer Richard Avedon for one day. Fleury then travelled onto India where she encountered learne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Wiegmann
Flora Wiegmann (born 1976 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Education Wiegmann earned her dance BA from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA from UCLA's Department of Art and Architecture. Career Wiegmann has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Roberts Institute of Art, Camden Arts Centre in London, and the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Canada. Wiegmann's work incorporates film, site-specificity, endurance and collaboration with visual artists such as Fritz Haeg, Drew Heitzler, Silke Otto-Knapp, Alix Lambert, Margo Victor, and Andrea Zittel Andrea Zittel (born 1965) is an American artist based in Joshua Tree, CA whose practice encompasses spaces, objects and modes of living in an ongoing investigation that explores the questions "How to live?" and "What gives life meaning?" Early li .... Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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