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New York, New Mexico / Greece, India. Born 1941
Sculpture-knot shaped 'environments', fountains, graphics
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1936 Kastoria, Macedonia, Greece - 2024 New York City. Known for: Multi-media, modernist figure, collage-assemblage, happenings.
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959,... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of events" (Atkins 103). Samaras has created assemblage figures and textured boxes from pins, nails, screws, cloth and plaster as well as erotic-seeming forms from wood, pins and rope. Of these objects Samaras has said that he felt he could rescue... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of events" (Atkins 103). Samaras has created assemblage figures and textured boxes from pins, nails, screws, cloth and plaster as well as erotic-seeming forms from wood, pins and rope. Of these objects Samaras has said that he felt he could rescue ruined and useless things and give them dignity. He often inserts photos of himself, and as his career has progressed. he has... Read full biography
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New York, California. 1934 - 2011
Minimalist sculpture-dark lacquered, shining forms, painting
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Geometric sculpture, drawing
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Large scale geometric sculpture, drawings
New York, New Mexico. Born 1941
Minimal non ob, installation
New York. Born 1933
Minimalism, conceptualism, installation sculpture
Texas, Utah, New Jersey. 1938 - 1973
Earthworks, concept-site sketches
New York, Ohio / England. 1932 - 2007
Abstract figure, animal and portrait painting
New York, Oklahoma. Born 1952
Abstract figure, collage
New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana. 1907 - 2002
Stainless steel kinetic sculpture, some drawing
New York, Rhode Island. 1931 - 2022
Abstraction, assemblage, wall-mouonted sculpture
District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1921 - 2004
Sculptor, minimalist painting
New York, Florida. 1927 - 2011
Crushed automobile motif sculpture
New York. 1912 - 1963
Biomorphic abstract, early surreal
New York / England. Born 1962
Large scale minamal form richly colored painting
New York, Massachusetts. 1906 - 1991
Contemporary open form abstract sculpture
New York, California / Canada. 1945 - 2003
Performance art-light explosions, video art
California, Massachusetts / Japan. 1898 - 1976
Geometric abstract painting, op-stripes
New York, California / Japan. 1904 - 1988
Abstract sculpture, mod mediums
New York, Illinois. 1940 - 2007
Biomorphic imagery, abstract humor, collage, graphics
New Jersey. 1912 - 1980
Sculptor-minimalism, architecture
New York. 1903 - 1972
Assemblage-boxes, collage
New York / China. Born 1957
Performance and conceptual art, installation sculpture
New York, Nevada. Born 1979
Paintings, sculpture
New York, Alabama / Africa. 1938 - 2020
Photo collage, wild game and celebrities
New Mexico, California. 1935 - 2012
Colorful ceramic objects-eggs, teacups, surreal forms
California. Born 1958
Mod-pop whimsy, non ob, sculptor
New York / France, Venezuela. 1930 - 2016
Pop and folk art imagery, assemblage, modernist genre
Texas, New York. Born 1957
Torn ornate fabric and text image painting, punk propaganda, conceptual
New York, Illinois. 1922 - 2004
Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage
New York, Tennessee. 1930 - 2019
Non objective-minimal to zero painting
New York. Born 1949
Non objective, op imagery-stripe painting