Sally Mann - Art21
WEB5 days ago · Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to live and work. She received a BA from Hollins College in 1974, and an MA in writing from the same school in 1975. Her early series of photographs of her three children and husband resulted in a series called Immediate Family. In her recent series of landscapes of Alabama ...
About the Art21 Magazine
WEBAs part of Art21’s array of programming designed to illuminate the creative process, the Art21 Magazine provides a space for insightful writing on contemporary art and artists.Here, you’ll find our quarterly issues, resources on the intersection of art and education, as well as news on Art21 films and programs. The Art21 Magazine, which was previously the Art21 Blog, is available ...
Guerrilla Girls - Art21
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artist-activists who began working together in 1985. Working across various media, the collective challenges the systems and individuals perpetuating discrimination and inequality in the art world by publicly sharing data and statistics about the representation of women and artists of color in commercial and institutional art spaces.
Material Renewal: Four Artists Turning Trash into Art
WEBMar 18, 2016 · 1. Tom Deininger. Tom Deininger uses what others throw away to build sculptural collages out of old toys, plastic cutlery, cigarettes, and colored pieces of plastic that have long been separated from the game or device they belonged to. He has made mandalas out of bottle caps and built a rabbit out of cigarette filters.He even recreated Monet’s painting, The Japanese Footbridge, from old ...
The Paradoxical Art of “Inception” - Art21 Magazine
WEBAug 3, 2010 · Art:21 Season Four featured contemporary artists Allora & Calzadilla, Mark Bradford, Robert Ryman, and Catherine Sullivan who investigate the boundaries between “abstraction and representation, fact and fiction, order and chaos.”. Throughout history, artists have been compelled to explore paradox as contradiction, ambiguity, and truth.
Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings and the “Joy of Color” - Art:21
WEBFeb 2, 2012 · To my mind, Hirst’s Spot Paintings are no different in their engagement with art history, as these pulsating canvases of color—ranging from dense fields of tiny dots to a few spare circles isolated against an expanse of white—call to mind Georges Seurat, Hans Hoffmann, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Gerhard Richter, and many more. Even the title of Hirst’s publishing and merchandise ...
Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One - Art21 Magazine
WEBOct 7, 2009 · To say it was a pleasure to be given the opportunity to interview Janine Antoni for this column is a gross understatement. In 2003, Janine Antoni‘s Season 2 segment was my first introduction to Art21. It’s no surprise that I’ve been hooked since. As an art educator who, at that time was quite frustrated with the lack of quality programming related to visual artists working today, this ...
The Nature of Art: Let’s Situate Ourselves - Art21 Magazine
WEBAug 16, 2010 · The Nature of Art: Let’s Situate Ourselves. Matthew Albanese, “Salt Water Falls,” 2009, mixed media. Image courtesy the artist. Get to the root of the matter. Plant an idea. Sow the seeds. Call it what you will — the environment, biosphere, landscape, wilderness, terra firma, mother earth, etc. — but nothing is as synonymous with the ...
Mel Chin: The Fundred Dollar Bill Project - Art21 Magazine
WEBMar 3, 2008 · Season 1 artist Mel Chin originated the Fundred Dollar Bill Project to draw attention and to develop solutions for the environmentally responsible rebuilding of the New Orleans from ‚Äúbelow the ground up.‚Äù As with much of Chin‚Äôs work, he sees this project as a collaborative action, where every contribution is valued and celebrated.
Contemporary Art in Context — Art21
WEB5 days ago · Art21 defines contemporary art as the work of artists who are living in the twenty-first century. Contemporary art mirrors contemporary culture and society, offering teachers, students, and general audiences a rich resource through which to consider current ideas and rethink the familiar. The work of contemporary artists is a dynamic ...