The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Allan McCollum PUBLICATIONS
Born 1944 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Sculptor, collage, abstract painter, printmaker.
Allan McCollum is best known for his arrangements of small, solid black paintings surrounded by white matte and framed in wood. McCollums idea for this expression grew out of his interest in defining... Read full biography
Allan McCollum is best known for his arrangements of small, solid black paintings surrounded by white matte and framed in wood. McCollums idea for this expression grew out of his interest in defining painting and reducing it to a few elements. This pursuit has allowed him to produce a consistent... Read full biography
Allan McCollum is best known for his arrangements of small, solid black paintings surrounded by white matte and framed in wood. McCollums idea for this expression grew out of his interest in defining painting and reducing it to a few elements. This pursuit has allowed him to produce a consistent body of work that changes very little. His "Surrogates" as these small framed paintings are called, represent a universal sign of painting; they remove the identifiable image or the art from the viewer.... Read full biography
Allan McCollum is best known for his arrangements of small, solid black paintings surrounded by white matte and framed in wood. McCollums idea for this expression grew out of his interest in defining painting and reducing it to a few elements. This pursuit has allowed him to produce a consistent body of work that changes very little. His "Surrogates" as these small framed paintings are called, represent a universal sign of painting; they remove the identifiable image or the art from the viewer. His original idea of creating only one painting to exhibit repeatedly was altered to accommodate the potential for the art piece to be bought and sold as a true art object. His early "Surrogates" varied slightly in material and frame color. His... Read full biography
Allan McCollum is best known for his arrangements of small, solid black paintings surrounded by white matte and framed in wood. McCollums idea for this expression grew out of his interest in defining painting and reducing it to a few elements. This pursuit has allowed him to produce a consistent body of work that changes very little. His "Surrogates" as these small framed paintings are called, represent a universal sign of painting; they remove the identifiable image or the art from the viewer. His original idea of creating only one painting to exhibit repeatedly was altered to accommodate the potential for the art piece to be bought and sold as a true art object. His early "Surrogates" varied slightly in material and frame color. His later versions, cast from molds into plaster, expand upon the idea of a mass-produced generic object. In the first part of his career, McCo... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (20)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesArt at the Turn of the Millennium
1999Larsen, Lars et all561 pages (color)Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life
1997
(Exhibition catalog)Rowell, Margit232 pages (color)The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996Deitch, Jeffrey302 pages (color)Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995Fineberg, Jonathan496 pages (color)The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995Flam, Jack; Donald Marron304 pages (color)Art Today
1995Lucie-Smith, Edward512 pages (color)Critiques of Pure Abstraction
1995
(Exhibition catalog)Rosenthal, Mark48 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesContemporary Art 1965-1990
1992Kurtz, Bruce D256 pages (color)Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Rose, Bernice128 pages (color)Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum96 pages (color)Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991Wheeler, Daniel344 pages (color)Natural Genre (Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University)
1984Collins, Tricia and Richard Milazzo48 pages (color)The California Connection 16 Paintings/Gifford Phillips Collection
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Edgerton, Anne Carnegie32 pagesFrederick Weisman Collection California Art
1978
(Exhibition catalog)California State U Long Beach64 pages (color)Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974Plagens, Peter200 pages (color)Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974
1974
(Exhibition catalog)University of Illinois136 pages