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Art:21 | Kerry James Marshall | On Museums
Art:21 | Kerry James Marshall | On Museums
EXCLUSIVE: Kerry James Marshall discusses his relationship to museums during the installation of the exhibition "Black Romantic" at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, which features five paintings from the artists "Vignettes" (2003-07) series.Kerry James Marshalls work is based on a broad range of art-historical references, from Renaissance painting to folk art. A striking aspect of his paintings is the emphatically black skin tone of his figures, a development the artist says emerged from an investigation into the invisibility of blacks in America and the unnecessarily negative connotations associated with darkness.Kerry James Marshall is featured in the Season 1 (2001) episode Identity of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment!VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Camera &Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Kerry James Marshall. Thanks: Jack Shainman Gallery. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Gabriel Orozco | "Mobile Matrix"
EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses the process behind his sculpture "Mobile Matrix" (2006), a permanent installation for the José Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City.Gabriel Orozcos sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional notions of reality. Drawing our attention to slips in logic, philosophical games, and hidden geometries, Orozco uncovers the extraordinary aspects of the seemingly everyday. His use of humble materials and means (graphite on bone, a ball of clay, a 35mm camera) engages the imagination through its disarming simplicity and intimacy.Gabriel Orozco is featured in the Season 2 (2003) episode Loss &Desire of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment!VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Sofía Olascoaga. Camera &Sound: J. Manuel Bravo Arriola and Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Gabriel Orozco. Thanks: Biblioteca José Vasconcelos, Mexico City; Kurimanzutto, Mexico City; Marco Barrera Bassols; and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Matthew Ritchie | "The Morning Line"
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Ritchie discusses his upcoming exhibition "The Morning Line" (2008) in his New York studio, with animated architectural schematics of the installation. "The Morning Line" will be on view October 2, 2008 - January 11, 2009 at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain, as part of the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Seville.Matthew Ritchie's artistic mission has been no less ambitious than an attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it. Ritchie's encyclopedic project (continually expanding and evolving like the universe itself) stems from his imagination, and is cataloged in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judeo-Christian religion, occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific elements and principles.Matthew Ritchie is featured in the Season 3 (2005) episode Structures of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment!VIDEO | Producer: Eve Moros Ortega and Nick Ravich. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Judy Karp. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Matthew Ritchie and Aranda/Lasch. Thanks: Benjamin Aranda. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Alfredo Jaar | Gramsci &Pasolini
EXCLUSIVE: Alfredo Jaar in his installation "Infinite Cell" (2004) in Santiago, Chile, and various works.Through installations, photographs, and community-based projects, Alfredo Jaar explores the public's desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar's work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations, often taking the form of an extended meditation or elegy.Alfredo Jaar is featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Protest of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment!VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins &Nick Ravich. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Artwork courtesy: Alfredo Jaar. Thanks: Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Eleanor Antin | "Helen's Odyssey"
EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Antin's exhibition Helen's Odyssey (2007) installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York. Antin discusses the historical figure Helen of Troy, and how she became the inspiration for photographic works such as Constructing Helen (2007).An influential performance artist, filmmaker, photographer, and installation artist, Eleanor Antin delves into history—whether of ancient Rome, the Crimean War, the salons of nineteenth-century Europe, or her own Jewish heritage and Yiddish culture—as a way to explore the present. Antin is a cultural chameleon, masquerading in theatrical or stage roles to expose her many selves.SEE: More images, videos, and news for Eleanor Antin.LEARN: Eleanor Antin is featured in the Season 2 (2003) episode Humor of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment!VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller &Nick Ravich. Camera &Sound: Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Additional Footage: Daniel Martinico. Editor: Jennifer Chiurco. Artwork courtesy: Eleanor Antin. Thanks: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson is known for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. Inspiration for many of Hawkinson's pieces has been the re-imagining of his own body and what it means to make a self-portrait of this new or fictionalized body. Sculptures are often re-purposed out of materials which then artist then mechanizes through hand-crafted electrical circuitry.Tim Hawkinson is featured in the Season 2 episode "Time" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2003-2008 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Ellen Gallagher
Repetition and revision are central to Ellen Gallagher's treatment of advertisements appropriated from popular magazines. Although her work has often been interpreted as an examination of race, Gallagher also suggests a more formal reading—from afar the work appears abstract and minimal, and employs grids as both structure and metaphors for experience.Ellen Gallagher is featured in the Season 3 episode "Play" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2005-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg
"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)"-- Robert Rauschenberg, 1959Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous.Curated by Paul Schimmel, Robert Rauchenberg: Combines was shown in early 2006 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On seeing it there, and upon learning that there were no plans to film it, I asked Bob for permission to do so at the next venue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.This elegy is dedicated to the memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and to the memory of his friendship with my late husband, Earle Brown (1926-2002), whose music has been intertwined and juxtaposed here with images of the glorious Combines.Susan Sollins-BrownExecutive DirectorArt21Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg has been created from footage filmed by Art21 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles during the 2006 exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Among the works seen in whole or in part are Minutiae (1954); Interview (1955); Monogram (1955-59); Canyon (1959); Gift for Apollo (1959); Black Market (1961); Empire II (1961); Pantomime (1961); Ace (1962); and Gold Standard (1964). The video is set to music composed by Earle Brown who, along with Rauschenberg, was a member of a small group of friends in the 1950s that included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, and Christian Wolff, among others. In the spirit of that long-ago friendship, and in the collaborative spirit of that time and group, excerpts from the following works by Brown have been selected and collaged, with permission of The Earle Brown Music Foundation, for this video: Music for Violin, Cello, &Piano (1952); Octet I (1953); Folio and 4 Systems (1954); String Quartet (1965); New Piece (1971); and Special Events (1999).VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Special thanks to Robert Rauschenberg's Studio and David White; Paul Schimmel and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Earle Brown Music Foundation and Thomas Fichter. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock's works tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of an unfolding epic. Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions—such as the use of color, language, and pattern—into opportunities to convey narratives.Trenton Doyle Hancock is featured in the Season 2 episode "Stories" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2003-2008 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Louise Bourgeois
Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s Louise Bourgeois had turned her attention to sculptural work for which she is now recognized as a twentieth-century leader. By the 1960s she began to execute her work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became more referential to themes of family, home and childhood.Louise Bourgeois is featured in the Season 1 episode "Identity" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2001-2008 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny's work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny's work often takes the form of historical fictions.Josiah McElheny is featured in the Season 3 episode "Memory" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2005-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray's distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray's paintings and watercolors playfully blur the line between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects.Elizabeth Murray is featured in the Season 2 episode "Humor" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins received attention early on for her renditions of natural scenes�often copied from photographs that lack a point of reference, horizon, or discernable depth of field. Armed with a nuanced palette of blacks and grays, Celmins renders these limitless space�seascapes, night skies, and the barren desert floor�with an uncanny accuracy, working for months on a single image.Vija Celmins is featured in the Season 2 episode "Time" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Allora &Calzadilla | Form
EXCLUSIVE: Allora &Calzadilla's Ruin (2006) installed at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Jennifer Allora &Guillermo Calzadilla approach visual art as a set of experiments that test whether ideas such as authorship, nationality, borders, and democracy adequately describe today's increasingly global and consumerist society. Their hybridized works - often a unique mix of sculpture, photography, performance, sound and video -o- explore the physical and conceptual act of mark making and its survival through traces. By drawing historical, cultural, and political metaphors out of basic materials, their works explore the complex associations between an object and its meaning.LEARN: Allora &Calzadilla are featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Paradox of the Art:21 — Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment! [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni's work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Antoni transforms everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, such as painting and sculpting. Themes in her work include mortality, desire and the body.Janine Antoni is featured in the Season 2 episode "Loss &Desire" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Barry McGee
A cult figure amongst skaters and graffiti artists, Barry McGee's drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray-paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal. McGee is also a graffiti artist, known by the tag "Twist."Barry McGee is featured in the Season 1 episode "Place" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Margaret Kilgallen
Margaret Kilgallen's work reflects her encyclopedic knowledge of signs drawn from American folk tradition, printmaking, and letterpress. Kilgallen has a love of "things that show the evidence of the human hand." Painting directly on the wall, Kilgallen creates room-size murals that recall a time when personal craft and handmade signs were the dominant aesthetic.Margaret Kilgallen is featured in the Season 1 episode "Place" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko creates large-scale slide and video projections of politically-charged images on architectural façades and monuments worldwide. By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history.Krzysztof Wodiczko is featured in the Season 3 episode "Power" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2005-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Do-Ho Suh
Known for sculptures and installations that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Do-Ho Suh's work draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. Exploring the fine line between strength in numbers and homogeneity, Suh's works question the identity of the individual in today's increasingly transnational, global society.Do-Ho Suh is featured in the Season 2 episode "Stories" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Robert Ryman
Robert Ryman's work explodes the classical distinctions between art as object and art as surface, sculpture and painting, structure and ornament—emphasizing instead the role that perception and context play in creating an aesthetic experience. Ryman isolates the most basic of components—material, scale, and support—enforcing limitations that allow the viewer to focus on the physical presence of the work in space.Robert Ryman is featured in the Season 4 episode "Paradox" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney is best known as the producer and creator of the "CREMASTER" films. The title of the films refers to the muscle that raises and lowers the male reproductive system according to temperature, external stimulation, or fear. The films themselves are a grand mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology—a universe in which symbols are densely layered and interconnected.Matthew Barney is featured in the Season 1 episode "Consumption" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Raymond Pettibon
A cult figure associated with the Los Angeles punk rock scene, Raymond Pettibon has acquired a reputation as one of the foremost artists working with drawing, text, and artist's books. Pettibon is as likely to explore the subject of surfing as he is typography; themes from art history and nineteenth-century literature appear in the same breath with the American politics from the 1960s.Raymond Pettibon is featured in the Season 2 episode "Humor" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more informationhttp://www.pbs.org/art21© 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer's groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. Pfeiffer's intimate and idealized video works are often presented on small LCD screens and loop infinitely—meditations on faith, desire, and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity.Paul Pfeiffer is featured in the Season 2 episode "Time" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Kerry James Marshall
The subject matter of Kerry James Marshall's paintings, installations, and public projects is often drawn from African-American popular culture. A striking aspect of his paintings is the emphatically black skin tone of his figures, a comment on the invisibility of blacks in America and the unnecessarily negative connotations associated with darkness.Kerry James Marshall is featured in the Season 1 episode "Identity" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21© 2001-2008 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Laurie Simmons | Dancer Greg Sinacori
EXCLUSIVE: Dancer Greg Sinacori during the making of Laurie Simmons's The Music of Regret (2006) at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio, New York.Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as 'living objects', animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult's memories, longings, and regrets. Her work blends psychological, political and conceptual approaches to art making, transforming photography's propensity to objectify people, especially women, into a sustained critique of the medium.SEE: More images, videos, and news for Laurie Simmons.LEARN: Laurie Simmons is featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Romance of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment!© 2008 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
Art:21 | Mel Chin | 'Fundred' at George Jackson Academy
Art21-featured artist Mel Chin (Season 1) originated the Fundred Dollar Bill Project to draw attention to and develop solutions for environmentally responsible rebuilding of New Orleans from below the ground up. The artworks—individually created Fundred Dollar Bills made by students—will be collected by an armored truck and delivered to Washington D.C., where an even exchange of the value of their art currency for actual funds will be requested.This video was shot at George Jackson Academy in New York City, an independent middle school serving "bright boys from lower-income families" and which is participating in the project. Art teacher Gary Campbell worked with fourth- through eighth-graders to create Fundred Dollar Bills. This school is one of the collection centers for all bills created in New York State. Its students are featured discussing their involvement and thoughts on the current situation in New Orleans.Mel Chin will unveil more details on the project and examples of Fundred Dollar Bills themselves at next week's National Art Education Association convention in New Orleans.Camera/Editing: Larissa Nikola-Lisa; Interviews: Tana Hargest. Sound Operator: David Roesing. PA: Peter Synder. Special thanks to Mel Chin; Mary Rubin and the entire Fundred Dollar Bill Project team; and the students and staff of George Jackson Academy, especially: Jason Alejo, Daniel Baldwin, Darshan Desai, Jamal Elliot, Lateef Fall, Peter Garcia, Lukas Grattan, Joseph Hatton, Mattiyas Letang, Momo Lewis, Fernando Medina, James Norman, Armondo Perez, Mitchel Thomas, Robert Williams.More information: http://blog.art21.org/2008/03/03/mel-chin-the-fundred-dollar-bill-project/© 2008 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [ More Detail ]
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