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Neo-Conceptualism
Neo-conceptual art describes art practices in the 1980s and particularly 1990s to date that derive from the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. These subsequent initiatives have included the Moscow Conceptualists, United States neo-conceptualists such as Sherrie Levine and the Young British Artists, notably Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin in the United Kingdom, where there is also a Stuckism counter-movement and criticism from the 1970s conceptual art group Art and Language. History Many of the concerns of the "conceptual art" movement proper have been taken up by many contemporary artists since the initial wave of conceptual artists. While many of these artists may not term themselves "conceptual artists", ideas such as anti-commodification, social and/or political critique, digital art, and ideas/information as medium continue to be aspects of contemporary art, especially among artists working with computer art, installation art, performance art, net.art and electroni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Parrino
Steven Parrino (1958–2005) was an American artist and musician associated with energetic punk nihilism. He is best known for creating big modernist monochrome paintings (his colors were limited to monochrome black (or black-and-white), orange, red, blue, and silver) that he violently slashed, torn or twisted off their stretchers. He died in a motorcycle traffic accident in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the age of 46. Art work Parrino was born in New York City in 1958 and grew up on Long Island. The family was Albanian-Arbëreshë originally from Sicily. He earned an associate of applied science degree from SUNY Farmingdale in 1979 and a bachelor of fine arts degree from Parsons The New School for Design in 1982. Parrino began producing art at the end of the 1970s. His oeuvre includes paintings, sculpture collage and drawings. He was driven, as he said himself, by his ‘necrophiliac interest’ in painting, which at that time had been pronounced dead. As early as 1981 he detached t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Halley
Peter Halley (born 1953) is an American artist and a central figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. Known for his Day-Glo geometric paintings, Halley is also a writer, the former publisher of ''index Magazine'', and a teacher; he served as director of graduate studies in painting and printmaking at the Yale University School of Art from 2002 to 2011. Halley lives and works in New York City. Introduction Halley came to prominence as an artist in the mid-1980s, as part of the generation of Neo-Conceptualist artists that first exhibited in New York's East Village, including Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Sarah Charlesworth, Annette Lemieux, Steven Parrino, Phillip Taaffe, and Gretchen Bender. Halley's paintings explore both the physical and psychological structures of social space; he connects the hermetic language of geometric abstraction—influenced by artists such as Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly—to the actualities of urban space and the digital landscape. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Milazzo
Richard Milazzo is a critic, curator, publisher, independent scholar and poet from New York City. In the 1970s, he was the editor and co-publisher of ''Out of London Press''. He is the co-founding publisher and editor of Edgewise Press. In the 1980s, under the rubric of Collins & Milazzo, he co-curated numerous Collins & Milazzo Exhibitions and co-wrote with Tricia Collins essays on art and art theory. Life and work and Edgewise Press Richard Milazzo is a graduate of McBurney School and Franklin and Marshall College. In the 1970s, he earned an M.A. for his thesis on Ezra Pound’s ''Cantos'' at City College of New York. He is the editor of Edgewise Press, a small press art publication house founded by Milazzo in 1995. It maintains editorial offices in New York and Paris and is dedicated to publishing small, uniformly packaged, paperback books on art criticism, art theory, aesthetics, philosophy, fiction and poetry. Since 1982, he has worked internationally as a critic and cura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Collins
Tricia Collins is an American art critic, art gallerist and curator of contemporary art. She was half of the curatorial team Collins & Milazzo, with Richard Milazzo, who together co-published and co-edited '' Effects : Magazine for New Art Theory'' from 1982 to 1984. She later ran the art galleries Grand Salon, Tricia Collins Grand Salon, and Tricia Collins Contemporary Art in New York City until the year 2000. Biography Born in Miami, Collins grew up in Tallahassee, Florida and moved to New York City in 1979. In 1980 she moved to the East Village. Collins & Milazzo In 1984, Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo began working together as curators to transform the group show into a critical statement. Her exhibitions and critical writings with Collins & Milazzo brought to prominence a new generation of artists in the 1980s. It was their exhibitions and writings that originally fashioned the theoretical context for a new kind of Post-conceptual art that argued simultaneously against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) is an American abstract painter whose work has played an integral role in the development of Postmodern Painting. He currently lives and works in New York City. Lasker has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grants in 1987 and again in 1989. In 1989 he was also awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant. His work has been covered in ''Artforum'', ''Artscribe'', ''Arts Magazine'', ''Flash Art'', New Art Examiner, ''New York Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', ''Tema Celeste'', ''Village Voice'', ''Bomb Magazine'', and ''The Washington Post'' among others. He was the subject of the 2005 book ''Jonathan Lasker: Expressions Become Things'' by Richard Milazzo which documented his process of developing abstract compositions from sketches to paintings. Early life and education Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City as well as the California Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan McCollum
Allan McCollum (born 1944) is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in New York City. In 1975, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and he moved to New York City the same year. In the late 1970s he became especially well known for his series, ''Surrogate Paintings''. He has spent over fifty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world caught up in the contradictions made between unique handmade artworks and objects of mass production, and in the early 1990s, he began focusing most on collaborations with small regional communities and historical society museums in different parts of the world. His first solo exhibition was in 1970 and his first New York showing was in a group exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1972. Early life McCollum was born in The California Hospital in Los Angeles on August 4, 1944. In 1946, his family moved to Redondo Beach, California, where his three siblings were born, and where he lived until 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Innerst
Mark Innerst (born 1957 in York, PA) is an American painter known for his luminous urban landscapes. Biography Innerst earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kutztown State College, Kutztown, PA in 1980. He worked as a preparator at the newly formed Metro Pictures Gallery in 1981. There he met Robert Longo and became one of his assistants. Innerst has been exhibiting in New York City galleries since the early 1980s. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA and Cape May, NJ. He is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York. Work Innerst is known for his modernist paintings of New York City and his small landscape paintings that harken back to American 19th-century Luminism. The curator Katherine Gass has linked Innerst's work to the landscapes of American painters James McNeill Whistler and Winslow Homer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Charlesworth
Sarah Edwards Charlesworth (March 29, 1947 – June 25, 2013) was an American conceptual artist and photographer. She is considered part of The Pictures Generation, a loose-knit group of artists working in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, all of whom were concerned with how images shape our everyday lives and society as a whole. Early life and education Charlesworth was born in East Orange, New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969. Her undergraduate thesis project, a work of conceptual art devoid of text, was a 50-print study of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.Sarah Charlesworth |
Joseph Nechvatal
Joseph Nechvatal (born January 15, 1951) is an American post-conceptual digital artist and Aesthetics, art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses. Life and work Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago. He studied fine art and philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Cornell University and Columbia University. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy of Art and Technology at the Planetary Collegium at University of Wales, Newport [ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe lecture page ''Joseph Nechvatal: Immersion Into Noise'' and has taught art theory and art history at the School of Visual Arts. He has had many solo exhibitions, including one in Berlin His work in the early 1980s chiefly consisted of pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Nagy (artist)
Peter Nagy (born 1959) is an American artist and gallerist. Nagy is the owner of Gallery Nature Morte, founded in New York City and now located in India. Early life Nagy was born in 1959 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He studied at the Parsons School of Design, receiving a degree in communication design in 1981. Career as gallerist With the artist Alan Belcher, Nagy opened Gallery Nature Morte in East Village, Manhattan, New York City in 1982. Nagy was a part of a generation of the East Village artist-gallery owners who established a small and rough but trendy avant-garde alternative to the established SoHo art scene. The gallery was open for six years, until 1988. They combined conceptualism and pop art, exploring the relationship between the art and the commodity. In 1992, Nagy moved to New Delhi where he revived Gallery Nature Morte in 1997. The Indian artist Subodh Gupta has said of him: "he has fresh eyes and has provided a platform for contemporary artists." In 2021 the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
