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Jack Shainman Gallery
Jack Shainman Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in New York City. The gallery was founded by Jack Shainman and Claude Simard (19562014) in 1984 in Washington, D.C. The gallery has a focus on artists from Africa, East Asia, and North America. History The gallery opened a exhibition space called The School in Kinderhook, New York in 2018. In 2022, the gallery announced plans to open a space at 108 Leonard. Artists The gallery represents numerous living artists, including: * Nina Chanel Abney * El Anatsui * Shimon Attie * Radcliffe Bailey * Yoan Capote * Nick Cave (since 2005) * Geoffrey Chadsey * Gehard Demetz * Pierre Dorion * Vibha Galhotra * Kay Hassan * Brad Kahlhamer * Hayv Kahraman * Anton Kannemeyer * Tallur L.N. * Deborah Luster * Kerry James Marshall * Enrique Martinez Celaya * Meleko Mokgosi * Richard Mosse * Adi Nes * Jackie Nickerson * Odili Donald Odita * Toyin Ojih Odutola * Garnett Puett * Claudette Schreuders * Malick Sidibé * Paul Anthony Smit ... [...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] |
Adi Nes
Adi Nes ( he, עדי נס; born 1966) is an Israeli photographer. Education * 1989-1992 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, photography Life and career Adi Nes was born in Kiryat Gat. His parents are Jewish immigrants from Iran. He is openly gay. Nes is notable for series "Soldiers", in which he mixes masculinity and homoerotic sexuality, depicting Israeli soldiers in a fragile way. In 2003 he did a feature for '' Vogue'' Hommes. Nes has given solo exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, and the Melkweg Gallery in Amsterdam, among others. His work has also shown in group exhibitions at the Hotel de Sully in Paris, Haifa Museum of Art and the Jewish Museum in New York, among many others. He has been reviewed in ''The New York Times'', the ''Financial Times'', and others. In 2005 Nes was chosen as an outstanding artist of the prestigious Israel Cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mosse
Richard Mosse (born 1980) is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer. Early life and education Mosse was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. He lives and works in New York and Berlin. He received a first class BA in English literature from King's College London in 2001, an MRes in cultural studies from the London Consortium in 2003, a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2005 and a photography MFA from Yale School of Art in 2008. Work Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in ''The Guardian'', said "His images from there often seem to skirt the real and the fictional, simply though ictheir heightened and unreal colours. He has made the familiar seem strange and the real seem heightened to the point of absurdity. This is war reportage – but not as we know it." Willy Staley, writing in the ''New York Times Magazine'', said "Mosse highlights the eastern Congo's natural bounty while acknowledging both the medium's origins and, he points out, the West' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meleko Mokgosi
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) is an artist and associate professor of painting and drawing at the School of Art at Yale University. His work includes large-scale paintings that explore themes of colonialism, democracy, nationalism, and life in Southern Africa. Early life and education Mokgosi was born in 1981 in Francistown, Botswana, and raised by his mother and grandmother in the city of Maun, Botswana, Maun. He began drawing in primary school. While in high school, he became interested in the potential of making political commentary with art. In 2003, he moved to the United States, participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art#Independent study program, Whitney Independent Study Program, and studied art at Williams College and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), earning Bachelor of Arts, B.A. and Master of Fine Arts degrees. Mokgosi studied for four years with American conceptual artist Mary Kelly (artist), Mary Kelly, who guided him in developing a project-based pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Martinez Celaya
Enrique Martínez Celaya (born June 9, 1964) is a contemporary Cuban-born painter, sculptor, author and former scientist whose work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world. He trained and worked as a physicist, completing all coursework for his doctorate, before devoting himself full-time to his artwork. He holds master's degrees in physics and fine arts and has authored books on art and philosophy as well as scientific articles. He is currently a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and the Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at USC. Early life and education Martínez Celaya was born on June 9, 1964, in Havana, Cuba, and spent his early childhood in Nueva Paz and Los Palos, Cuba. His family relocated to Madrid, Spain in 1972. While there, he took up drawing at the age of eight. In 1975, the family relocated again, this time to Puerto Rico. He initiated his formal training as an apprentice to a painter at the age of 12 and developed his ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall was included on the annual ''Time'' 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved in childhood to South Central Los Angeles. He has spent much of his career in Chicago, Illinois. A retrospective exhibition of his work, ''Kerry James Marshall: Mastry'', was assembled by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2016. Early life and education Kerry James Marshall was born October 17, 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. He was raised in Birmingham and later in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of a postal worker and a homemaker. His father's hobby was buying broken watches that he would pick up in pawn shops for a song, figure out how to fix them with the help of books he would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Luster
Deborah Luster (born 1951) is a photographic artist from Northwest Arkansas, US, and has been a professional photographer since the 1990s. Luster has at least one book in print, ''One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana'', and is known for using older technology such as tintype to document and artistically portray violent crime and related topics. She is published and discussed in various international media such as ''The Economist'', educational sources such as the John Simon Guggenhiem Memorial Foundation, galleries such as the Jack Shainman Gallery and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Career and awards Luster jointly won a Lange-Taylor Prize in 2000 with C.D. Wright with whom she has worked as a duo for ''One Big Self''. Luster published a 64-page 17-inch hardcover book titled ''Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish'' in February 2011. This work focuses on the effect a high rate of homicide has in New Orleans and each piece has a journey throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallur L
Tallur is a small town in Kundapur taluk, Udupi district, Karnataka. It had a population of 3801 as per the 2011 census. It is less than 3 km away from the town of Kundapur and lies on National Highway 66. The St Francis Assisi Church is located in Tallur. References {{Geographic Location , title = , Northwest = , North = Hemmadi , Northeast = , West = Uppinakudru , Centre = Tallur , East = Hattiangadi , Southwest = , South = Kundapur Kundapur, also called Kundapura, is a coastal town situated in the Udupi district of the state of Karnataka, India. This town was known as Coondapoor while it was part of the erstwhile South Canara district (1862–1947) of the Madras Pre ... , Southeast = Villages in Udupi district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Kannemeyer
Anton Kannemeyer (born 1967) is a South African comics artist, who sometimes goes by the pseudonym Joe Dog. Kannemeyer has lectured the University of Pretoria, Technikon Witwatersrand, and was also a senior lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. Biography Anton Kannemeyer was born in Cape Town. He studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Stellenbosch, and did a Master of Arts degree in illustration after graduating. Together with Conrad Botes, he co-founded the magazine ''Bitterkomix'' in 1992 and has become revered for its subversive stance and dark humor. He has been criticized for making use of "offensive, racist imagery". Kannemeyer himself said that he gets "lots of hate mail from white Afrikaners". His works challenge the rigid image of Afrikaners promoted under Apartheid, and depict Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans. “X is for Xenophobia”, part of his "Alphabet of Democracy", depicts Ernesto Nhamwavane, a Mozambican immi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayv Kahraman
Hayv Kahraman (born 1981) is an Iraqi-American-Swedish artist of Kurdish descent, who was born in Baghdad and fled to Sweden with family during the Gulf War, studied in Florence, and is currently based in Los Angeles. She is primarily a painter. Life and career Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1981 to Kurdish parents, a Kurdish mother from Slemani. Her family fled to Sweden in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991). During the Iran–Iraq War, Hayv spent a lot of her time in the basement of her uncle's house. Her relatives would all huddle around candles and play card games. While living in Iraq, she attended the Music and Ballet School in central Baghdad. One night, her family packed their car and hired a smuggler to take them to Sweden, and this is when she became a refugee. She enrolled in music and ballet classes, but decided to leave due to the teacher's racism. She studied at the Academy of Art and Design in Florence, Italy. She lives and works in California, United Stat ... [...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] |
