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October 2011 - January 2012
Art Exhibition October 2011 - January 2012 Barbara Kasten Barbara Kasten, a Chicago born artist, is best known for her photographs of well known architectural sites. She experiments with different photographic processes such as color, light and focus, while conveying meaning through the elements involved. Her use of architecture as an inspiration is prevalent throughout her art, and as seen here, she infuses pops of color to highlight vivid angles and sharp lines. She explores the relationship between light in a setting of large-scale assemblages, which ultimately makes light and shadows the subject. With influences from The Bauhaus and Constructivism, Kasten explores modes of reorganizing the visual environment while using geometric shapes and lighting to create an abstract interpretation. Barbara Kasten received her BFA in painting and sculpture from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She went on to receive her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. Kasten’s work can be seen in many prestigious museums throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For more information about Barbara Kasten and her work, please contact Tony Wight Gallery at 312/492-7261 or visit www.tonywightgallery.com Bernard Williams Bernard Williams was born in Chicago and has worked in the mediums of painting, sculpture, metalwork, murals and installations. His interest in American and world history are evident as he pulls from the “melting pot” cultures that make up this country. Inspired by signs and symbols, Williams often arranges them in ways to depict the complexities of human and historical development. -
Press Release Frank Gehry First Major European
1st August 2014 PRESS RELEASE communications and partnerships department 75191 Paris cedex 04 FRANK GEHRY director Benoît Parayre telephone FIRST MAJOR EUROPEAN 00 33 (0)1 44 78 12 87 e-mail [email protected] RETROSPECTIVE press officer 8 OCTOBER 2014 - 26 JANUARY 2015 Anne-Marie Pereira telephone GALERIE SUD, LEVEL 1 00 33 (0)1 44 78 40 69 e-mail [email protected] www.centrepompidou.fr For the first time in Europe, the Centre Pompidou is to present a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Frank Gehry, one of the great figures of contemporary architecture. Known all over the world for his buildings, many of which have attained iconic status, Frank Gehry has revolutionised architecture’s aesthetics, its social and cultural role, and its relationship to the city. It was in Los Angeles, in the early 1960s, that Gehry opened his own office as an architect. There he engaged with the California art scene, becoming friends with artists such as Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Bell, and Ron Davis. His encounter with the works of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns would open the way to a transformation of his practice as an architect, for which his own, now world-famous, house at Santa Monica would serve as a manifesto. Frank Gehry’s work has since then been based on the interrogation of architecture’s means of expression, a process that has brought with it new methods of design and a new approach to materials, with for example the use of such “poor” materials as cardboard, sheet steel and industrial wire mesh. -
Blanton Museum to Exhibit 'Making Africa: a Continent Of
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Carlotta Stankiewicz, 512.475.6784, [email protected] Penny Snyder, 512.471.0241, [email protected] BLANTON MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT MAKING AFRICA: A CONTINENT OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN Exhibition featuring the work of over 120 creatives sheds new light on contemporary African design AUSTIN, Texas—September 11, 2018— The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin will present Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design from October 14, 2018 to January 6, 2019 in the Sarah and Ernest Butler Gallery. Making Africa showcases the work of over 120 artists and designers from and within Africa working in an exhilarating range of media including sculpture, fashion, furniture, architecture, film, photography, maps, digital comics, graphic and web design, and more. The exhibition presents Africa as a hub of experimentation—and as a driving force in the development of design in the twenty-first century. Making Africa reconsiders and expands definitions of both design and Africa—a shift in perspective symbolized by Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru’s sculptural C-Stunner eyeglasses made of found materials (2012). The exhibition offers a vision of Africa in the twenty-first century as a place of unbounded optimism, rapid growth, and massive cultural transformation. This spirit echoes that of the mid- twentieth century, when a young generation of Africans, celebrating their liberation from colonization, self-assuredly asserted themselves on a global stage. The exhibition draws parallels to that era by juxtaposing select examples of mid-twentieth-century art and design with contemporary works. “The Blanton is thrilled to present this deeply insightful and relevant exhibition to Austin’s creative community,” said Blanton director Simone Wicha. -
2015 Barbara KASTEN Resume
BARBARA KASTEN CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION 1970 M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California 1959 B.F.A., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona GUEST LECTURES 2015 “Kasten in Context: New Peers: Barbara Kasten in conversation with David Hartt, Takeshi Murata, and Sara VanDerBeek”, Insitiute of Contemporary Art, Philadephia, PA 2013 Panel: “Color Rush”, Aperture, AIPAD Conference, New York 2012 Expo Chicago, Panel “Eclectic Coherence,” Chicago, Illinois Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis,MO 2010 Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson 2009 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Artists Speak” series 2008 Columbia College Faculty Retreat, Distinguished Artist Presentation 2007 Columbia College Faculty Retreat, Distinguished Artist Presentation The New School, NY,representing Columbia College Photography Department 2004 Tampa Gallery of Photography, Tampa, Florida 2002 Art Museum, University of Memphis, Tennessee 1999 Columbia College Faculty Retreat, Panel “New Direction in Photography” Seminar Guest, Honors Program at Daley College, Chicago, Illinois “Chicago Photo” lecture series, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1998 “Photography CHICAGO 1998”, Chicago, Illinois SPE National Convention, Panel “Going Commercial: Fine Art Photographers Explore Todayʼs Marketplace”, Tucson, Arizona 1997 Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1996 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Ithaca College, Lecture and Workshop, Ithaca, New York 1994 VISCOMM 94, Javits Convention Center, New York, New York 1 MacWorld Exposition, Boston, Massachusetts 1993 Art and Photography Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York School of the Visual Arts, New York, New York 1992 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York Society for Photographic Education, National Convention, Washington, D.C. -
For Immediate Release Barbara Kasten
For Immediate Release Barbara Kasten: Stages October 1–January 9, 2016 Chicago, August 5, 2015—The Graham Foundation, in partnership with the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, is pleased to present Barbara Kasten: Stages, the first major survey of the work of Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten. Widely known for her photographs, since the 1970s Kasten has developed an expansive practice through the lens of painting, textile, sculpture, theater, architecture, and installation. Organized in conversation with the artist and with full access to her extensive archive, the exhibition offers fresh vantages onto Kasten’s five-decade career as an innovative multidisciplinary artist engaged with abstraction, light, and architectonic space. Barbara Kasten: Stages situates the artist’s work within current conversations in art and architecture and traces its roots to the unique and provocative intersection of Bauhaus- influenced pedagogy in America, the California Light and Space movement, and the ethos and aesthetics of postmodernism. Kasten’s interest in the interplay between three- dimensional and two-dimensional forms, her concern with staging and the role of the prop, her cross-disciplinary process, and the way she has developed new approaches to abstraction and materiality are all intensely relevant to contemporary architecture’s critical engagement with visual arts practices as well as to a new generation of artists who have drawn inspiration from Kasten’s evolving aesthetic and process. Loosely chronological, the exhibition focuses on selections from major bodies of work spanning the 1970s to the present. It brings together and contextualizes for the first time Kasten’s earliest fiber sculptures, mixed media works, cyanotype prints, forays into set design, archival documents, and video documentation, along with Kasten’s best known photographic series—her studio constructions and architectural interventions. -
The Vision of a Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
HARVARD DESIGN SCHOOL THE VISION OF A GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN BILBAO In a March 31, 1999 article, the Washington Post? posed the following question: "Can a single building bring a whole city back to life? More precisely, can a single modern building designed for an abandoned shipyard by a laid-back California architect breath new economic and cultural life into a decaying industri- al city in the Spanish rust belt?" Still, the issues addressed by the article illustrate only a small part of the multifaceted Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. A thorough study of how this building was conceived and made reveals equally significant aspects such as getting the best from the design architect, the master handling of the project by an inexperienced owner, the pivotal role of the executive architect-project man- ager, the dependence on local expertise for construction, the transformation of the architectural profession by information technology, the budgeting and scheduling of an unprecedented project without sufficient information. By studying these issues, the greater question can be asked: "Can the success of the Guggenheim museum be repeated?" 1 Museum Puts Bilbao Back on Spain’s Economic and Cultural Maps T.R. Reid; The Washington Post; Mar 31, 1999; pg. A.16 Graduate student Stefanos Skylakakis prepared this case under the supervision of Professor Spiro N. Pollalis as the basis for class discussion rather to illustrate effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation, a design process or a design itself. Copyright © 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. To order copies or request permission to repro- duce materials call (617) 495-4496. -
Guggenheim Presents Focused Exhibition on Seminal Work by Jackson Pollock, Opening October 3
Guggenheim Presents Focused Exhibition on Seminal Work by Jackson Pollock, Opening October 3 Exhibition: Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York Location: Thannhauser Gallery 4 Dates: October 3, 2020–September 19, 2021 (NEW YORK, NY – September 18, 2020)—As part of the public reopening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on October 3, the museum presents Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural, a focused exhibition dedicated to the first monumental painting by American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956). Commissioned by visionary collector and dealer Peggy Guggenheim for her Manhattan home in the summer of 1943, during a pivotal moment in the evolution of Pollock’s artistic style, Mural was completed by the end of that same year. The current presentation is the first time this work has been on view in New York in more than 20 years and marks the painting’s debut at the Guggenheim Museum. Along with Mural, the exhibition features three additional works by Pollock. Nearly 20 feet wide by 8 feet tall, Mural is Pollock’s largest painting. The work was a breakthrough for the artist and marked a transformational year. During his brief time working as a custodian and preparator at New York’s Museum of Non-Objective Painting (the first inception of the Guggenheim Museum) in 1943, Peggy Guggenheim gave him a contract with a monthly stipend that permitted him to paint full-time. Her early support of Pollock’s work arguably established his career. Following the commissioning of this painting, the artist had his first solo exhibition, held at Guggenheim’s museum- gallery, Art of This Century, later that year. -
Major Survey of Contemporary African Design to Make U.S. Debut at High Museum of Art
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAJOR SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DESIGN TO MAKE U.S. DEBUT AT HIGH MUSEUM OF ART Exhibition offers a fresh look at African design through sculpture, prints, fashion, furniture, film and photography by more than 120 artists from 22 countries ATLANTA, May 2, 2017 – The High Museum of Art will be the first venue in the United States to present “Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design” (Oct. 15, 2017, through Jan. 7, 2018), a major touring exhibition organized by the Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The exhibition offers a vision of Africa in the 21st century as a place of unbounded optimism, rapid growth and massive cultural transformation. Through a myriad of diverse works by more than 120 artists and designers from 22 countries, “Making Africa” presents the continent as a hub of experimentation generating innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance and as a driving force for reframing discussions on design possibilities and applications in the new millennium. The exhibition focuses on a generation of entrepreneurs, thinkers and designers from and within Africa who address a global audience and provide the world with a new vantage point on the continent. The exhibition also illustrates how the artists use their work to effect economic, social and political change within their countries and local communities. “The High has long been committed to collecting, conserving and celebrating African art, both historical and contemporary, and we’re honored to serve as the inaugural U.S. venue for this exhibition,” said Rand Suffolk, the High’s Nancy and Holcombe T. -
Barbara Kasten
Kadel Willborn Birkenstr. 3 D – 40233 Düsseldorf [email protected] www.kadel-willborn.de Barbara Kasten born 1936, lives and works in Chicago, US Education 1970 M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, US 1959 B.F.A., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US Museum Collections Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, US Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, US Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, AU Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, US Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito, Japan, US Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, US Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, US California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside, US Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, US Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT Hammer Museum, Uiversity of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US Helen Forsman Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, US High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, US International Center of Photography, New York, US International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, US J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, US Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, US Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, US Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, US Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, US Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, US Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, US Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, PL Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, US Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, US 1 Kadel Willborn Birkenstr. -
Frank Gehry Biography
G A G O S I A N Frank Gehry Biography Born in 1929 in Toronto, Canada. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Education: 1954 B.A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 1956 M.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Select Solo Exhibitions: 2021 Spinning Tales. Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA. 2016 Fish Lamps. Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy. Building in Paris. Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, Venice, Italy. 2015 Architect Frank Gehry: “I Have an Idea.” 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan. 2015 Frank Gehry. LACMA, Los Angeles, CA. 2014 Frank Gehry. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Voyage of Creation. Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France. Fish Lamps. Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece. Fish Lamps. Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China. 2013 Fish Lamps. Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, England. Frank Gehry At Work. Leslie Feely Fine Art. New York, NY. Fish Lamps. Gagosian Gallery, Paris Project Space, Paris, France. Frank Gehry at Gemini: New Sculpture & Prints, with a Survey of Past Projects. Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, NY. Fish Lamps. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. 2011 Frank Gehry: Outside The Box. Artistree, Hong Kong, China. 2010 Frank O. Gehry since 1997. Vitra Design Museum, Rhein, Germany. Frank Gehry: Eleven New Prints. Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, NY. 2008 Frank Gehry: Process Models and Drawings. Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY. 2006 Frank Gehry: Art + Architecture. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. 2003 Frank Gehry, Architect: Designs for Museums. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled to Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2001 Frank Gehry, Architect. -
Words Without Pictures
WORDS WITHOUT PICTURES NOVEMBER 2007– FEBRUARY 2009 Los Angeles County Museum of Art CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Charlotte Cotton, Alex Klein 1 NOVEMBER 2007 / ESSAY Qualifying Photography as Art, or, Is Photography All It Can Be? Christopher Bedford 4 NOVEMBER 2007 / DISCUSSION FORUM Charlotte Cotton, Arthur Ou, Phillip Prodger, Alex Klein, Nicholas Grider, Ken Abbott, Colin Westerbeck 12 NOVEMBER 2007 / PANEL DISCUSSION Is Photography Really Art? Arthur Ou, Michael Queenland, Mark Wyse 27 JANUARY 2008 / ESSAY Online Photographic Thinking Jason Evans 40 JANUARY 2008 / DISCUSSION FORUM Amir Zaki, Nicholas Grider, David Campany, David Weiner, Lester Pleasant, Penelope Umbrico 48 FEBRUARY 2008 / ESSAY foRm Kevin Moore 62 FEBRUARY 2008 / DISCUSSION FORUM Carter Mull, Charlotte Cotton, Alex Klein 73 MARCH 2008 / ESSAY Too Drunk to Fuck (On the Anxiety of Photography) Mark Wyse 84 MARCH 2008 / DISCUSSION FORUM Bennett Simpson, Charlie White, Ken Abbott 95 MARCH 2008 / PANEL DISCUSSION Too Early Too Late Miranda Lichtenstein, Carter Mull, Amir Zaki 103 APRIL 2008 / ESSAY Remembering and Forgetting Conceptual Art Alex Klein 120 APRIL 2008 / DISCUSSION FORUM Shannon Ebner, Phil Chang 131 APRIL 2008 / PANEL DISCUSSION Remembering and Forgetting Conceptual Art Sarah Charlesworth, John Divola, Shannon Ebner 138 MAY 2008 / ESSAY Who Cares About Books? Darius Himes 156 MAY 2008 / DISCUSSION FORUM Jason Fulford, Siri Kaur, Chris Balaschak 168 CONTENTS JUNE 2008 / ESSAY Minor Threat Charlie White 178 JUNE 2008 / DISCUSSION FORUM William E. Jones, Catherine -
The History of Photography: the Research Library of the Mack Lee
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY The Research Library of the Mack Lee Gallery 2,633 titles in circa 3,140 volumes Lee Gallery Photography Research Library Comprising over 3,100 volumes of monographs, exhibition catalogues and periodicals, the Lee Gallery Photography Research Library provides an overview of the history of photography, with a focus on the nineteenth century, in particular on the first three decades after the invention photography. Strengths of the Lee Library include American, British, and French photography and photographers. The publications on French 19th- century material (numbering well over 100), include many uncommon specialized catalogues from French regional museums and galleries, on the major photographers of the time, such as Eugène Atget, Daguerre, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Marville, Félix Nadar, Charles Nègre, and others. In addition, it is noteworthy that the library includes many small exhibition catalogues, which are often the only publication on specific photographers’ work, providing invaluable research material. The major developments and evolutions in the history of photography are covered, including numerous titles on the pioneers of photography and photographic processes such as daguerreotypes, calotypes, and the invention of negative-positive photography. The Lee Gallery Library has great depth in the Pictorialist Photography aesthetic movement, the Photo- Secession and the circle of Alfred Stieglitz, as evidenced by the numerous titles on American photography of the early 20th-century. This is supplemented by concentrations of books on the photography of the American Civil War and the exploration of the American West. Photojournalism is also well represented, from war documentary to Farm Security Administration and LIFE photography.