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Keith Sonnier BIOGRAPHY
1941 Mamou, Louisiana - 2020 Southampton, New York. Known for: Post minimalism, assemblage of found objects, video, sculpture, photo-etching.
"Keith Sonnier, Playful Sculptor in Neon, Dies at 78," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, July 23, 2020. He tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimalism with a sense of poetry and... Read full biography
"Keith Sonnier, Playful Sculptor in Neon, Dies at 78," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, July 23, 2020. He tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimalism with a sense of poetry and fun, using functional everyday materials. Keith Sonnier, who infused functional materials like... Read full biography
"Keith Sonnier, Playful Sculptor in Neon, Dies at 78," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, July 23, 2020. He tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimalism with a sense of poetry and fun, using functional everyday materials. Keith Sonnier, who infused functional materials like sailcloth, foam rubber, steel rebar and neon with a sense of poetry and play that tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimal art in the late 1960s and made him one of the movement’s more unconventional standard... Read full biography
"Keith Sonnier, Playful Sculptor in Neon, Dies at 78," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, July 23, 2020. He tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimalism with a sense of poetry and fun, using functional everyday materials. Keith Sonnier, who infused functional materials like sailcloth, foam rubber, steel rebar and neon with a sense of poetry and play that tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimal art in the late 1960s and made him one of the movement’s more unconventional standard bearers, died on July 18 in Southampton, N.Y. He was 78. His death, at Southampton Hospital, was announced by his studio and by Pace gallery, which has represented him for many years. The cause was colon cancer. He lived nearby in Bridgehampton. In... Read full biography
"Keith Sonnier, Playful Sculptor in Neon, Dies at 78," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, July 23, 2020. He tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimalism with a sense of poetry and fun, using functional everyday materials. Keith Sonnier, who infused functional materials like sailcloth, foam rubber, steel rebar and neon with a sense of poetry and play that tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimal art in the late 1960s and made him one of the movement’s more unconventional standard bearers, died on July 18 in Southampton, N.Y. He was 78. His death, at Southampton Hospital, was announced by his studio and by Pace gallery, which has represented him for many years. The cause was colon cancer. He lived nearby in Bridgehampton. In both the manifold building blocks of his works and their titles — Ba-O-Ba, Ju-Ju, Palm Saw Tooth Blatt, Bison Bop— M... Read full biography
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"Keith Sonnier, Playful Sculptor in Neon, Dies at 78," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, July 23, 2020.
He tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimalism with a sense of poetry and fun, using functional everyday materials.
Keith Sonnier, who infused functional materials like sailcloth, foam rubber, steel rebar and neon with a sense of poetry and play that tweaked the solemnity of Post-Minimal art in the late 1960s and made him one of the movement’s more unconventional standard bearers, died on July 18 in Southampton, N.Y. He was 78.
His death, at Southampton Hospital, was announced by his studio and by Pace gallery, which has represented him for many years. The cause was colon cancer. He lived nearby i...But wait, there's more...
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