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Born 1944 Cleveland, Ohio. Known for: Conceptualist and mixed-media artist, videos.
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in... Read full biography
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which... Read full biography
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which was utilizing books, text and photographs of which, for each, he collected thousands of items---mostly about popular American culture. As both a collector and artist, he created an elaborate web-based... Read full biography
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which was utilizing books, text and photographs of which, for each, he collected thousands of items---mostly about popular American culture. As both a collector and artist, he created an elaborate web-based project called The New Five Foot Shelf, which is the contents of a book collection of nearly 800 pages of encyclopedic text written by the artist as well as photographs from his New York studio at 611 Broadway from 1986 to 2001. Of this project,... Read full biography
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which was utilizing books, text and photographs of which, for each, he collected thousands of items---mostly about popular American culture. As both a collector and artist, he created an elaborate web-based project called The New Five Foot Shelf, which is the contents of a book collection of nearly 800 pages of encyclopedic text written by the artist as well as photographs from his New York studio at 611 Broadway from 1986 to 2001. Of this project, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, it was written: "by presenting his studio, work, and tra... Read full biography
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A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which was utilizing books, text and photographs of which, for each, he collected thousands of items---mostly about popular American culture.
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