art midterm 1

ephemeral art

Art that is made to exist temporarily is called ephemeral art.

Ai Weiwei

Artist who is a symbol of rebellion against the Chinese government.

Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler

Ericson and Mel Ziegler were influential collaborators in social interventionist art, flat wall work

Eva Hild

Eva Hild's sculptures oscillate between polarities: dark and light, inside and outside, white swirly sculptures

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson is a conceptual artist of African-American and Caribbean descent who's primarily known for rearranging art and artifacts in museum collections

Christian Boltanski

French Conceptual artist specializing in installations, focuses on memory and forgetting

Tim Hawkinson

Tim Hawkinson is an American artist and sculptor who focuses on answering questions about identity through his works -multimedia

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

cuban artist-is gay and uses that in his installations and sculptures-minimalism

Picasso

cubism, metal sculptures Picasso's works were among the first artworks to deny naturalism of the human form in figurative works, (1881-1973)

claus domine hanson

fossil series, ceramic artist

paul pitsker

identity My watercolor paintings combine still life with narrative elements intertwining themes of confinement and looming disaster.

Ron Mueck

*Contemporary/Hyperrealism* sculpture giant baby -

Superflex

-A Dutch Artist collective that solves social and political issues through their artistic practice. -In their work, Superflex alters existing spaces and technologies to serve a different purpose connected to environmentalism.

Post Commodity

-An artist collective based out the southwest. The group includes Kade L.Twist and Cristóbal Martínez. - -They use sound, installation, social practices to comment on and create an understanding of indigenous perspectives

Michael Heizer, Nevada based artist

-Credited as the first artist from the Land Art Movement to work in the western United States

Mark Dion, (B. 1961 - Present)

-Interested in ecologies and the interrelatedness of things. -He examines culture and the way that it interacts with nature. -His practice overlaps with other fields such as biology, anthropology, ornithology, botany, etc. -greenhouse big tree guy

Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964)

-Janine Antoni s a contemporary artist who creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. -She often uses her body, both as an entity, or paying particular attention to body parts as tools, utilizing her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and, through technological scanning, the brain, to create her artwork. -Many of her works comment on and replicate issues facing women that are often not talked about in the art world.

symparch

-Simparch is an American artist collective that was founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996. -Simparch, investigates experimental architecture and technologies that are soft or slow and have a very small carbon footprint.

Environmental Art

-These works relate to the Land Art Movement but have become more specific and more inclusive of what ecology is and how public artworks and people interact with ecology

subtractive sculpture

A kind of sculpture technique in which materials are taken away from the original mass; carving.

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 - July 20, 1973)

A pioneer of Land Art and Earthworks -Much of his work dealt with the clash between man-made and natural and how the two are more interconnected than what we think.

Carrie Mae Weems

An American artist who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, and installation video but is best known for her work in the field of photography. Her work focuses on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity.

Conceptual Art

An American avant-garde art movement of the 1960s that asserted that the "artfulness" of art lay in the artist's idea rather than its final expression.

Abstract Expressionism

An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes. -new york -first major art movement -1950's

Anders Ruhwald

Anders Herwald Ruhwald creates large-scale installations that blur the lines of ceramics (black squares)

Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist who emerged in the early 1980s known for her large-scale multimedia installations

Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. (lots of little brown figures in room?)

Sherrie Levine

Appropriated famous photographs in order to question the belief in the unique qualities and authenticity of photographs.

the american clay revolution

At this time, America ceramics was heavily influenced by the Japanese ceramic aesthetic: -peter volkos created a new contemporary vision -1960's -emergence of the funk movement -super object: high crafted

ayumi horie

Ayumi Horie featuring handmade pottery of drawn animals, alphabets and multiplication tables.

brendan tang

Brendan Tang's ceramic sculptures are mash-ups of ... Chinese Ming dynasty vessels and "techno-Pop Art."

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang prefers to make a statement with explosives.

Robert Arneson

Contemporary American artist, who often used himself as the subject of his works. -identity -sculpture

David Hammons

David Hammons is a contemporary American artist whose sculptural, print-based, video, and painted work offers a crucial interpretation of African-American art history.

Marcel Duchamp (B. France. 1887-1968)

Duchamp was a pioneer of Dadaism.As an artist Duchamp questioned long-held assumptions about what art should be and how it should be made. Duchamp also coined the term ready made which referenced objects that were mass-produced, commercially available, often utilitarian objects, designating them as art and giving them titles.

Nancy Holt,

Earthworks sun tunnels -Her work was among the first of its kind. Not only did Holt create land art, but her works focused on creating an awareness of a place for the viewer.

El Anatsui

El Anatsui is an artist who transforms found materials into large shimmering forms by assembling elements into vibrant patterns with unique visual impact.

elise siegel

Elise Siegel is a sculptor best known for her psychologically charged figurative ceramic works. (babies on chairs clapping), torsos, feet

orlan

French multimedia performance artist

Dan Graham: (B 1942)

Graham was among the first artists to consider the world, outside of a gallery, as a site for art and was a major influence on the development of Land Art

Haim Steinbach

Haim Steinbach is an American artist,. Many of his works consist of arrangements of mass-produced objects, displayed on shelves of his own design found objects

Peter Voulkos

He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. -american clay revolution

Wolfgang Laib

He works with natural materials but brings them into an indoor setting. In this sense, he controls nature. •Spends months gathering 'art' materials (pollen). •Meticulously arranged indoor installations. •Minimal in design & color. •Arrangement (disruption) of nature is obvious & perhaps this even dominates. •Through repetition of gesture, materials are laid down & arranged. •This repetitive action becomes ritualistic & enters the realm of meditative action. •He lives to gather & gathers to live...his life & art are one!

Marcel Duchamp

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.

Amalia Mesa-Bains

Her works, primarily interpretations of traditional Chicano altars, contemporary, installations

James Luna

James Luna was a Payómkawichum, Ipi, and Mexican-American performance artist, photographer and multimedia installation artist. His work is best known for challenging the ways in which conventional museum exhibitions depict Native Americans -identity

Los Carpinteros

cuban art collective Fascinated by the intersection between art and everyday life

Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni is a contemporary artist who creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's works focus mostly on process and the transitions between the making and finished product.

Jeffrey Koons

Jeffrey Koons is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects, such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces (michael jackson sculpture) (ceramic)

Josiah McElheny

Josiah McElheny is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects.

Donald Judd: (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994)

Judd is considered to be one of the most influential artists Minimalism in art. Judd's own art theory writing, "Specific Objects" (1964), is considered as one of the most important factors that challenged Formalism in art. Formalism in art history refers to the attempt to make concrete, through analysis of an artwork, the meaning of a work of art it.

kathy butterly

Kathy Butterly has created distinct, evocative sculptures for more than two decades, goofy sculptures

Nikki S. Lee

Korean filmmaker who "plays" with identity -adopts other styles

kristin morgin

Kristen L. Morgin is an American visual artist working primarily in sculpture. She is best known for her works made of unbaked clay that use trompe-l'œil to appear as wood, paper, or metal and suggest decay.

mark dion

Mark Dion is an American conceptual artist. best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations -found objects -hanging rats

Martin Puryear

Martin Puryear is a contemporary African-American artist best known for his large hand-crafted sculptures and intricate prints.

Linda weintraub

Linda Weintraub is an American art writer, educator and curator. She has written several books on contemporary art. Her most recent works address environmental consciousness that defines the ways cultures approach art, science, ethics, philosophy, politics, manufacturing, and architectur

Mark Quinn

Marc Quinn is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation and painting. Quinn explores 'what it is to be human in the world today' through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment and the media -identity

Gordon Matta-Clark (6, 22, 1943 - 8, 27, 1978)

Matta-Clark is an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. -His works examine the possibility of creating illogical objects or images. -He often works directly with abandoned buildings and industrial spaces which in turn become narratives in his work. -splitting house

Maurice Agis

Maurice Agis was a British sculptor and artist whose Dreamspace projects have drawn the involvement and work of various schools and art institutions all over Britain. -colorful mounds and you go inside

michael jones mckean

McKean's work explores the nature of objects in relation to folklore, technology, anthropology, and mysticis

Mike Kelly

Mike Kelley was an American artist regarded as one of the most influential members of the Conceptual Art movement. american

Chuck Close

Photo Realism in paintings

Sally Mann

Pictures of her children, often nude, much debated

Roxy Paine

Roxy Paine is a contemporary American artist best known for his tree-like structures he calls Dendroids.

Sergei Isupov

Sergei Isupov's work is figurative in both form and content. He creates sculptures combining human and animal elements

Sol LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007)

Sol LeWitt is considered the founder of both Conceptual Art and Minimalism.

Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt was an iconic American artist whose work helped to establish both Minimalism and Conceptual Art. ... Some of the artist's most integral pieces are his Wall Drawings, in which he explored myriad variations of applying drawn lines onto walls

Tara Donovan

Spatial installations with everyday items, paper plates, styrofoam cups, buttons, clouds and stalagmite forms

Damien Hirst

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living shark and animal in tank

Industrialization

The development of industries for the machine production of goods. -motivated artists from the concentration of wealth

Walter de Maria

Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with Minimal art, Conceptual art, and Land art of the 1960s

Andrea Zittel

Zittel is a Los Angeles based artist. Her work deals with issues of domesticity, feminism, and Americana -Her works exist both as lived-in sculptures or living units and as gallery works. -Many of her works are fabricated from steel

composite

a combination; a blend of two materials with differing strengths

Peter Eisenman

architect holocaust memorial

Land Art/Earthworks

art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked

bill woodrow

born 1948 emerged in the 70's found objects highlights the history of the objects duality in everyday objects

Ron Nagle

ceramic abstract artsist, small scale with lots of detail

ken price

ceramic artist contemporary-abstract

marek cecula

ceramic artist, very clean looking work? porcelain, tea cups, plates?

Grayson Perry

ceramic vases

tyler lotz

contemporary ceramic (twisty snakes) influenced by natural and meditated landscapes

marie torbensdatter hermann

contemporary ceramic artist (also lots of cups but ceramic, bendy cups, fingerprint on bowl)

John Chamberlain

crushed car parts -abstract expressionism -1927-2011

Meyer Vaisman

latin contemporary art, large scale installations

tension

material pulled outward

Mona Hatoum

metal viewer interaction everyday objects turned scary

avant-garde

new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.

cindy sherman

photographer, focuses on women issues and conveying herself -identity

rosalie favel

photography works with childhood memories Rosalie is a photo-based artist -identity Drawing inspiration from her family history and Métis (Cree/English) heritage,

piet stockmans

porcelain sculptures, (looks like lots of little cups)

shear

push two different ways

additive sculpture

sculptural form produced by adding, combining, or building up material from a core or (in some cases) an armature -assemblage -modeling

David Smith

stainless steel geometric shapes -one of the first to use metal as primary material -cubism, surrealism, and constructivism -1906-1965 -artsist i studied

Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 - 30 August 1991)

swiss sculptor (metal) inspired from dada artists -critiques consumers goods and people focusing on them

Jason Briggs

the art of jason briggs expresses strong sexual references, with hints of fetishism, porcelain

Claus Oldenburg

the pop artist of the 60s who tried to stun viewers into a new visual awareness with unfamiliar versions of familiar objects, such as a giant plastic sculpture of pillow-soft telephones -giant clothespin

Joseph Beuys

was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy. His career was characterized by passionate, even acrimonious public debate, but he is now regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

daniel j. martinez

work about racial differences -identity