United Kingdom. Born 1969
Painting and sculpture
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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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Germany. Born 1958
Photography, image manipulation, art education
New York, Oklahoma. Born 1952
Abstract figure, collage
New York, Texas / Switzerland. 1928 - 1994
Minimalist three-dimensional constructions, abstract imagery
New York, Connecticut. Born 1966
Assemblage, scupture, pop art, video and film
New York, Pennsylvania. Born 1962
Partially-clad female figure painting
New York, California. 1938 - 2024
Pop-art copied paintings
New York, Massachusetts. 1946 - 1989
Photographe-nudes, abstraction
Michigan. Born 1955
Sculptor, non objective painter
California, Illinois. 1947 - 2019
Abstract imagery, modernist sculpture, large-scale chairs and tables
New York. 1906 - 1975
Non-objective painting, geometric-op images
New York, Ohio. Born 1950
Sculptor-text installations, conceptual art
California. 1955 - 2016
Painted and screen printed book and album sculptures, trompe l'oeil
New York, California. Born 1957
Post-surreal, grotesque figure and portrait painting
New York. Born 1947
Funk biomorph, non ob-geometric
Scandinavia, Denmark, Norway. Born 1961/1969
Collaborative painting, sculpture, assemblage
New York. 1933 - 1996
Multimedia sculptor, light images
New York, Massachusetts. 1940 - 1995
Mod sculptor, mod figure painter
New York. Born 1958
Logotype recreations, figure
New Jersey. 1912 - 1980
Sculptor-minimalism, architecture
New York. 1926 - 2000
Abstract impasto painting, sculpture, printmaking
Arizona, California. Born 1943
Conceptual sketch, light installations
New York, California. Born 1958
Abstraction, whimsical landscape
California, New York. Born 1970
Large-scale color field abstract paintings
New York, Massachusetts. 1935 - 2024
Geometric sculpture, drawing
New York, New Jersey. Born 1948
Large-scale abstract naive expression
New York. Born 1951
Abstraction, collage, performance
New York, Massachusetts. Born 1962
Non objective painting, sculpture, photography, audio and video art
New York, California. 1943 - 1987
Sculptor-conceptual, collage, minimal
New York, Connecticut. Born 1937
Geometric, minimal abstract painting
New York / Bulgaria. 1935 - 2020/2009
Installations-wrappings, collage, environmental art
France. Born 1938
Installations-conceptual, geometric-stripe painting and sculpture