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Tom Jancar
Tom Jancar (born November 9, 1950, Pasadena, CA), Contemporary Art Dealer - Jancar Kuhlenschmidt Gallery (1980-1982) and Jancar Gallery (2006-2016) located in Los Angeles, CA. Jancar is the only son of Mildred Emeline (née Olson, 1915–2006) and Arnost Jancar (1921-1976). His father was of Czech, Moravia and Czech Silesia ancestry. Jancar's father was born in Butte, Montana. Jancar's father's parents were both emigrants. Jancar's mother, who was of Norwegian, Swedish and English/Irish descent, was born in Maskell, Nebraska. Jancar's mother's parents were the children of Dakota Territory pioneers. He attended Estancia High School, in Costa Mesa, California . Jancar studied Art History (BA 1974 - University of California, Irvine) and Studio Art (MFA 1976 - University of California, Irvine). During his graduate studies at University of California, Irvine, Jancar was the teaching assistant to Bas Jan Ader and assisted Ader in the creation of his work "Primary Time" (1974), photograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district. Its population was 138,699 at the 2020 census, making it the 44th largest city in California and the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County. Pasadena was incorporated on June 19, 1886, becoming one of the first cities to be incorporated in what is now Los Angeles County, following the city of Los Angeles (April 4, 1850). Pasadena is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade. It is also home to many scientific, educational, and cultural institutions, including Caltech, Pasadena City College, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Fuller Theological Seminary, ArtCenter College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Ambassador Auditorium, the Norton Simon Museum, and the USC Pacific A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler (born 1947) is a U.S. artist and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York.Louise Lawler Skarstedt Gallery, New York. From the late 1970s onwards, Lawler’s work has focused on photographing portraits of other artists’ work, giving special attention to the spaces in which they are placed and methods used to make them. Examples of Lawler's photographs include images of paintings hanging on the walls of a museum, paintings on the walls of an art collector's opulent home, artwork in the process of being installed in a gallery, and sculptures in a gallery being viewed by spectators. Along with artists like , |
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord (born 1949) is an American artist, writer, curator, social activist, professor, scholar exploring themes of feminism, cultural politics and colonialism. In 2010, she was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal. Early life and education Born in Dominica, she attended a British boarding school in Barbados. When she was 13, she moved to Iowa with her family. While attending Radcliffe College, where she majored in English, she worked as a research assistant at the Schlesinger Library. She earned her Master's of Fine Arts degree in photography and the history of photography at the Visual Studies Workshop, an artists' organization allied with the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lord also edited Afterimage, a journal of photography, film, and video. Work Her work includes ''The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men'' and "text/image project". She edited the catalogue for an exhibition of lesbian art, "All but the Obvious". Curated work Lord has curated a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micol Hebron
Micol Hebron (born July 23, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and associate professor at Chapman University, located in Southern California. Hebron critically examines and employs modes of feminist activism in art. Early life and education Hebron studied theater and visual arts at the University of California, San Diego from 1990 to 1992; and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, Italy, from 1993 to 1994. She went on to graduate ''summa cum laude'' from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelor of Arts in fine art in 1995. In 2000, she graduated from the UCLA with a Masters of Fine Arts in new genres and contemporary art history. Work In 2013 Hebron launched ''Gallery Tally'', a collaborative art project in which people around the world were tracking women's representation in art galleries and creating posters for exhibition. In 2014, the ''(en)Gendered (in)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project'' discovered that in Los A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Lacy
Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an American artist, educator, writer, and professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. She has worked in a variety of media, including installation, video, performance, public art, photography, and art books, in which she focuses on "social themes and urban issues." She served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, California, and as arts commissioner for the city. She designed multiple educational programs beginning with her role as performance faculty at the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Early life and education Having been involved with feminism since the late 1960s, Lacy attended California State University located in Fresno in 1969, taking up graduate studies in psychology. There, Lacy and fellow graduate student Faith Wilding established the first feminist consciousness-raising group on campus. This led to her attendance in Judy Chicago's Feminist Art Program during the fall of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresno (formerly Fresno State College) and acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education. Her inclusion in hundreds of publications in various areas of the world showcases her influence in the worldwide art community. Additionally, many of her books have been published in other countries, making her work more accessible to international readers. Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Chicago's most well known work is "The Dinner Party", which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Tompkins
Betty Tompkins (born 1945) is an American artist and arts educator. Her paintings revolve, almost exclusively, around photorealistic, close-up imagery of both heterosexual and homosexual intimate acts. She creates large-scale, monochromatic canvases and works on paper of singular or multiple figures engaged in sexual acts, executed with successive layers of spray painting over pre-drawings formed by text. Alongside artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Valie Export, Joan Semmel, Lynda Benglis and Judy Chicago, Tompkins has been re-assessed as a pioneer of Feminist art. She is listed in The Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art's Feminist Art Base. Early life and education Tompkins was born in 1945 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her B.F.A. degree from Syracuse University in the 1960s. She took a teaching job at Central Washington State College in Ellensburg, Washington shortly after marrying her first hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Boshier
Derek Boshier (born 1937, in Portsmouth) is an English artist, among the first proponents of British pop art. Greene, Alison de Lima (2000). Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. New York, New York, 279 pp. [with contritbutions by Shannon Halwes, Kathleen Robinson, Robert Montgomery, Monica Garza, Jason Goldstein, and Alejandra Jiménez]Livingstone, Marco (1990). Pop Art: A Continuing History. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. New York, New York, 272 pp He works in various media including painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture. In the 1970s he shifted from painting to photography, film, video, assemblage, and installations, but he returned to painting by the end of the decade. Addressing the question of what shapes his work, Boshier once stated "Most important is life itself, my sources tend to be current events, personal events, social and political situations, and a sense of place and places". His work uses popular culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Korman
Harriet Korman (born 1947) is an American abstract art, abstract painter based in New York City, who first gained attention in the early 1970s.Yau, John"Harriet Korman's Formal Mastery,"''Hyperallergic'', November 18, 2018. Retrieved July 23, 2020.Pincus-Witten, Robert"Karl Schrag, Michael Goldberg, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Harriet Korman, Frank Lincoln Viner, Materials and Methods: A New View,"''Artforum'', Summer 1972. Retrieved July 23, 2020.Smith, Roberta"Harriet Korman,"''Artforum'', September 1975, p. 73–4. Retrieved July 23, 2020. She is known for work that embraces improvisation and experimentation within a framework of self-imposed limitations that include simplicity of means, purity of color, and a strict rejection of allusion, illusion, naturalistic light and space, or other translations of reality.Yau, John"One of New York's Purist Abstract Painters,"''Hyperallergic'', May 23, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.Cotter, Holland. "Harriet Korman at Sorkin," ''Art in America'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
