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Sylvia Palacios Whitman
Sylvia Palacios Whitman (born 25 August 1941) is a Chilean-American artist, painter, sculptor, and performer. Career Whitman was born in Osorno, Chile, Osorno in Chile and studied Painting and Sculpture at the University of Chile, Fine Arts School in Santiago, Chile. In 1961 she arrived in New York, where she pursued her own work in drawing, painting, and modeling. She worked with notable photographers such as Richard Avedon, and his portrait of her appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar. Whitman became interested in dance and theater and performed with Trisha Brown and ‘‘The Trisha Brown Dance Company’’ from 1970 to 1973 in New York and across the United States and Europe. Between 1974 and 1984 she staged her perrformances in notable venues, including the Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum in New York, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and Manhattan galleries such as The Kitchen and the Sonnabend Gallery. In 1974, Whitman began staging her first pieces. ''Going'', ''Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Whitman
Robert Whitman (born 1935 in New York City) is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making. Since the late 1960s he has worked with new technologies, and his most recent work incorporates cellphones. Background Whitman studied literature at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1957 and art history at Columbia University in 1958. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. Theater works He was a member of the group of visual artists - Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg - who in the early 1960s presented theater pieces on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Whitman has presented more than 40 theater pieces in the United States and abroad, including ''American Moon'', ''E.G. and Mouth'' at the Rueben Gallery. ''Night Time Sky'' was his contribution to the First New York Theater Rally in New York in 1965; ''Prune Flat' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |