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Bansky

✤ Banksy (1974 -- ) is a graffiti artist from Bristol, UK, whose artwork has appeared throughout London and other locations around the world. Despite this he carefully manages to keep his real name from the mainstream media. However, many newspapers assert that his real name is Robert or Robin Banks.

✤ Banksy, despite not calling himself an artist, has been considered by some

as talented in that respect; he uses his original street art form, often in

combination with a distinctive stencilling technique, to promote alternative

aspects of politics from those promoted by the mainstream media.

Gregory Euclide

✤ Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Twin Cities of

Minnesota. His attraction to the landscape originates from his experience of

growing up in the rural landscapes of Wisconsin. Free to roam from farm field

to forest edge, he developed an appreciation for authentic experience within

the natural landscape. The complexity and interconnectedness of the

environment had a profound impact on him as a child and would become the

content and conceptual framework for his future work.

Liza Lou

✤ Liza Lou is an artist whose work combines visionary, conceptual, traditional

and vernacular approaches to create a new kind of sculptural experience.

She is best known for her ambitious sculptural installations like Kitchen and

Backyard, which were each years in the making, and more recently for her

powerful sculptures of ecstatic figures

Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida

✤ The husband and wife team present a manufactured micro universe, part

Toy Story, part Candy Land, populated with diminutive humanoid characters

engaged in a range of ordinary and extraordinary activities. Since the project

inception in 2002, the series has grown to over 60 images.

Mark Ryden

✤ Mark Ryden received a BFA in 1987 from Art Center College of Design in

Pasadena. Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of

the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the

traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered

attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, "Pop

Surrealism", dragging a host of followers in his wake. Ryden has trumped the

initial surrealist strategies by choosing subject matter loaded with cultural

connotation.

Francisco Goya

✤ Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era. The subversive and imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso.

Louise Bourgeois

✤ Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied art at various

schools there, including the Ecole du Louvre, Académie des Beaux-Arts,

Académie Julian, and Atelier Fernand Léger. In 1938, she emigrated to the

United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New

York. Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s

she had turned her attention to sculptural work, for which she is now

recognized as a twentieth-century leader.

Judy Pfaff

✤ Judy Pfaff was born in London, England in 1946. She received a BFA from

Washington University, Saint Louis (1971) and an MFA from Yale University

(1973). Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making,

Pfaff creates exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave

landscape, architecture, and color into a tense yet organic whole

Kara Walker

✤ Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969. She received a BFA

from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and an MFA from the Rhode Island

School of Design in 1994. The artist is best known for exploring the raw

intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through her iconic, silhouetted

figures.

Frida Kahlo

✤ Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954; Magdalena Carmen Frieda

Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán.  Perhaps best

known for her self-portraits, Kahlo's work is remembered for its "pain and

passion", and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in

Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists

for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.

Carmen Lomas Garza

✤ Carmen Lomas Garza was born in Kingsville, Texas. She is primarily known

for paintings and prints that draw upon her memories of growing up in this

small South Texas town.Throughout her career, it has been essential to

Lomas Garza that her art not only reaffirm Mexican American realities but

also bridge the conceptual gap between Chicano and Chicana culture and

those living outside of it. As a result, in both style and substance her work

celebrates the Mexican American experience by drawing on traditional

Latina and Latino sources that are visually accessible and by validating

styles of art that have been classified as “folk”.

Marina Abramovic

✤ Throughout her 30-year career, Abramovic has used her body as her primary

material, pushing it to extremes of altered consciousness, often putting

herself in great physical peril. Her concern with creating works that ritualize

the simple actions of everyday life like lying, sitting, dreaming and thinking

focuses, in effect, on the manifestation of a unique mental state.

August Macke

✤ August Macke (January 3, 1887 – September 26, 1914) was one of the

leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The

Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art

which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements

as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were

forming in the rest of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how

to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most

interested him.

Christian Boltanski

✤ Boltanski can be described as an alchemist, philosopher, potential suicide,

clown or Rasputin. His installations are made up of collections of everyday

objects such as clothing or shoes; and photographs - such as passport

photographs, school portraits and family albums. They memorialize ordinary

people - the unknown children killed in the Holocaust, the people of a Swiss

canton, or the employees of a Halifax carpet factory.

Cindy Sherman

✤ A unique glimpse into the early development of Sherman’s artistic practice,

and into the genesis of her inimitable substance and style. It illuminates her

conceptual approach to photography and foretells the career that would be

launched in the late 1970s, positioning her as one of the most significant

artists of our time.

Mark Bradford

✤ Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He received a BFA

(1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.

Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized

collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks—

underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of

abandoned public space—that emerge within a city.

Cao Fei

✤ Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China in 1978. She earned a BFA from

Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China (2001). Cao Fei’s

work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and

diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works

explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and

the virtual world of Second Life.

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Vija Celmins

✤ Vija Celmins was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938. Celmins immigrated to the

United States with her family when she was ten years old, settling in

Indiana. She received a BFA from the John Herron Institute in Indianapolis,

and later earned her MFA in painting from the University of California, Los

Angeles. Celmins received international 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.

Mark Dion

✤ Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a

BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford

School of Art, Connecticut. Dion’s work examines the ways in which

dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of

history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to

go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and

convention.

Pepon Osorio

✤ Pepón Osorio, best known for large-scale installations, was born in Santurce,

Puerto Rico, in 1955. He was educated at the Universidad Inter-Americana in

Puerto Rico and Herbert H. Lehman College in New York, and received an MA

from Columbia University in 1985. Osorio’s pieces, influenced by his

experience as a social worker in The Bronx, usually evolve from an

interaction with the neighborhoods and people among which he is working.

Sally Mann

✤ 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, Mississippi, Virginia, and

Georgia, Mann has stated that she “wanted to go right into the heart of the

deep dark South.”

James Turrell

✤ James Turrell was born in Los Angeles in 1943. His undergraduate studies at

Pomona College focused on psychology and mathematics; only later, in

graduate school, did he pursue art. He received an MFA in art from the

Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. Turrell’s work involves

explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words,

impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening.

Ellen Gallagher

✤ Ellen Gallagher was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1965, and lives and works in New York and Rotterdam, Holland. She attended Oberlin College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Repetition and revision are central to Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines like “Ebony,” “Our World,” and “Sepia” and uses in works like “eXelento” (2004) and “DeLuxe” (2004-05). Initially, Gallagher was drawn to the wig advertisements because of their grid-like structure.

Pierre Huyghe

✤ Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, France. He attended the École

Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (1982-85). Employing folly,

leisure, adventure, and celebration in creating art, Huyghe’s films,

installations, and public events range from a small town parade to a puppet

theater, from a model amusement park to an expedition to Antarctica. By

filming staged scenarios—such as a re-creation of the true-life bank robbery

featured in the movie “Dog Day Afternoon”—Huyghe probes the capacity of

cinema to distort and ultimately shape memory.