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Martin Kersels
Martin Kersels (born 1960) is an American contemporary artist. Kersels' work is largely installation based, incorporating sculpture, photography and video. Kersels is a professor of sculpture and director of graduate studies at the Yale School of Art. Exhibitions 2010 *"2010: Whitney Biennial", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 2009 *''Fat Iggy: Discography'', Galerie Vallois, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France *"Fat Iggy", Guido Costa Projects, Torino, Italy *"California Video", The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA 2008 *"Headache and Other New Works", ACME., Los Angeles, USA *''Heavyweight Champion'', Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA 2007 *''Heavyweight Champion'', The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga, USA 2006 *''Tumble Room/Deitch Projects'', Art Unlimited, Art 37 Basel, Basel, Switzerland *''Charms in a Throne Room'', ACME., Los Angeles, USA 2005 *''Orchestra for Idiots'', Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sonsini
John Sonsini (born 1950) is an artist based in Los Angeles who paints primarily with oil paint, oils. His best known work is portraits of Hispanic and Latino Americans, Latino day laborers, where Sonsini offered his subjects their usual wage in exchange for sitting for the paintings. He has also made work based on gay male erotica. Early life and education Sonsini was born in Rome, New York to an Italian-American family. He moved to Los Angeles with his family as a child, where he grew up in North Hollywood, California, North Hollywood in the San Fernando Valley. He attended California State University, Northridge where he graduated with a degree in art in 1974. Career Sonsini has mounted successful exhibitions at a variety of art galleries and other venues, from the mid 1980s to the 2020s. He is known for his deep exploration of male subjects in his paintings, and his subjects include gay and non-gay individuals, working-class men, Latino immigrants, and day laborers from Los A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
