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1933 New York, New York - 1996 New York, New York. Known for: Multimedia sculptor, light images.
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and line---removed from the artist. He served in the meteorological branch of the United States Air... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and line---removed from the artist. He served in the meteorological branch of the United States Air Force and then at the National Weather Analysis Center. He participated in four sessions on painting at the Hans Hofmann School in New York in 1956, studied art history at Columbia University, and at the... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and line---removed from the artist. He served in the meteorological branch of the United States Air Force and then at the National Weather Analysis Center. He participated in four sessions on painting at the Hans Hofmann School in New York in 1956, studied art history at Columbia University, and at the New School for Social Research. His sculpture concentrates on the placement of fittings that produce light within the work. He died in New York in 1996. Following is an excerpt from "New York Times" online, February 4, 2001:. Dan Flavin: The Last... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and line---removed from the artist. He served in the meteorological branch of the United States Air Force and then at the National Weather Analysis Center. He participated in four sessions on painting at the Hans Hofmann School in New York in 1956, studied art history at Columbia University, and at the New School for Social Research. His sculpture concentrates on the placement of fittings that produce light within the work. He died in New York in 1996. Following is an excerpt from "New York Times" online, February 4, 2001:. Dan Flavin: The Last Great Art of the 20th Century, By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN. MARFA, Tex. -- THE last great work of 20th-century American art has just b... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Assemblage
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Neon Light, Projected Light, Illumination
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Op Art, Optical
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Environment
Art School
- •Columbia University Art Department, Student
- •New School For Social Research, (The New School), Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Dia Art Foundation Support
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art