New York, Illinois. Born 1977
Found object, multi-media sculpture, photography, black art themes
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Born 1964 New York, New York. Known for: Sculpture-conceptual, erasure drawings, installation.
Gary Simmons (born April 14, 1964) is an American artist from New York City. Using icons and stereotypes of American popular culture, he creates works that address personal and collective experiences... Read full biography
Gary Simmons (born April 14, 1964) is an American artist from New York City. Using icons and stereotypes of American popular culture, he creates works that address personal and collective experiences of race and class. He is best known for his “erasure drawings,” in which he draws in white chalk on... Read full biography
Gary Simmons (born April 14, 1964) is an American artist from New York City. Using icons and stereotypes of American popular culture, he creates works that address personal and collective experiences of race and class. He is best known for his “erasure drawings,” in which he draws in white chalk on slate-painted panels or walls, then smudges them with his hands – a technique that renders their imagery ghostly. Simmons received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1988. He received his MFA... Read full biography
Gary Simmons (born April 14, 1964) is an American artist from New York City. Using icons and stereotypes of American popular culture, he creates works that address personal and collective experiences of race and class. He is best known for his “erasure drawings,” in which he draws in white chalk on slate-painted panels or walls, then smudges them with his hands – a technique that renders their imagery ghostly. Simmons received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1988. He received his MFA from CalArts in 1990 and received both the National Endowment for the Arts Interarts Grant and the Penny McCall Foundation Grant shortly after. Shortly after his graduate studies, Simmons found a studio back home at a former vocational school in... Read full biography
Gary Simmons (born April 14, 1964) is an American artist from New York City. Using icons and stereotypes of American popular culture, he creates works that address personal and collective experiences of race and class. He is best known for his “erasure drawings,” in which he draws in white chalk on slate-painted panels or walls, then smudges them with his hands – a technique that renders their imagery ghostly. Simmons received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1988. He received his MFA from CalArts in 1990 and received both the National Endowment for the Arts Interarts Grant and the Penny McCall Foundation Grant shortly after. Shortly after his graduate studies, Simmons found a studio back home at a former vocational school in Manhattan, New York. His space was empty but for several old-fashioned, wooden, rolling classroom chalkboards, which... Read full biography
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Illinois / South Africa. Born 1973
Urban planning themes, installations, performance art, sculpture
New York, California. Born 1969
Silhouette figures, racial themed work
New York, California. Born 1943
Conceptual installations, assemblage, African-American genre
New York. Born 1960
Text-based painting, allegory, self-portrait
Denmark, Germany. Born 1967
Optical illusion installations, mixed-media geometric sculpture
New York, Ohio. Born 1950
Sculptor-text installations, conceptual art
Arizona, California. 1925 - 2009
Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects
Illinois. 1939 - 2004
Modernist portrait and figure, illustrator
New York, Massachusetts. Born 1960
Found letter sculpture, installation
New York, California / Japan. Born 1962
Installation sculpture, images of commercial merchandise, female dolls, watches
New York / Kenya. Born 1972
Large-scale figurative collage, scupture, videos, feminist themed work
New York. 1940 - 2025
Minimilist, installation artist, conecptualism, photography
New York, California. 1942 - 2021
Conceptual art, post minimalism, large letter text paintings, posters
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
New York, New Jersey. Born 1979
Conceptual art, mixed media, sculpture
Missouri. 1927 - 2009
Sculpture, assemblage, abstraction
Born 1979
Painting
Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
Trinidad and Tobago, England. Born 1968
Mixed media mod Nigerian figure painting
New York. Born 1964
Installation sculpture-conceptual, panda painting
New York / Germany. Born 1954
Abstract body parts sculpture-feminist issues
New York, Connecticut. Born 1965
Pop art and and romantic portrait painting
New York / England, Colombia. Born 1986
Large scale non objective mixed media, performance art
New York, Illinois. Born 1981
Non objective, abstract painting
California, Colorado. Born 1958
Video and digital-based installation, nature themes
District Of Columbia, Kentucky. 1933 - 2022
Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics
New York / Canada. Born 1965
Undulating color bands-large scale
New York, California. Born 1989
Social themed assemblage, metal sculpture, painting
California. Born 1952
Abstraction-figurative caligraphic
New York. Born 1945
Abstract object-views, geometrics
Massachusetts, Missouri. Born 1965
Sculptor-conceptual, everyday object