New York. Born 1982
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1933 Brooklyn, New York - 1988. Known for: Mixed media conceptual work, abstract painting.
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American... Read full biography
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was only 54 when he died of AIDS in 1988. But by then he had already slipped through the cracks... Read full biography
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was only 54 when he died of AIDS in 1988. But by then he had already slipped through the cracks of art history. Or rather he had fallen into one of the deep trenches that divide that history into artificial islands with names like Pop and Minimalism. Thek came to art with so much going for him... Read full biography
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was only 54 when he died of AIDS in 1988. But by then he had already slipped through the cracks of art history. Or rather he had fallen into one of the deep trenches that divide that history into artificial islands with names like Pop and Minimalism. Thek came to art with so much going for him — talent, looks, energy and imaginative peculiarity — that for a decade or so he was an island unto himself, an archipelago even. In the early 1960s, when everyone else in New York was into hands-off fabrication and Benday dots, he was modeling... Read full biography
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was only 54 when he died of AIDS in 1988. But by then he had already slipped through the cracks of art history. Or rather he had fallen into one of the deep trenches that divide that history into artificial islands with names like Pop and Minimalism. Thek came to art with so much going for him — talent, looks, energy and imaginative peculiarity — that for a decade or so he was an island unto himself, an archipelago even. In the early 1960s, when everyone else in New York was into hands-off fabrication and Benday dots, he was modeling hyper-realistic images of meat, raw and bleeding, from beeswax. Gross and funny, they had people buzzing.... Read full biography
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New York, California. Born 1934
Mod droll parody, caricature
California, Michigan. 1954 - 2012
Multi-media installations, comic book scenes, fabric sculpture, videos
Spain. 1930 - 1998
Abstract, surrealist painting, writing
New York, California / Canada. 1945 - 2003
Performance art-light explosions, video art
France, Switzerland. 1925 - 1991
Kinetic sculpture, collage and mixed-media pop art
New York / China. Born 1957
Performance and conceptual art, installation sculpture
New York, New Mexico / Greece, India. Born 1941
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New York, California. 1941 - 2022
Modernist views-objects, grid images, conceptual painting
New York / Germany. Born 1954
Abstract body parts sculpture-feminist issues
New York, Illinois. 1940 - 2007
Biomorphic imagery, abstract humor, collage, graphics
Texas, New York. Born 1957
Torn ornate fabric and text image painting, punk propaganda, conceptual
New York. 1941 - 2025
Abstract geometric sculpture, minimalism, abstract drawing
New York, Illinois. 1922 - 2004
Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage
New York, California. 1934 - 2011
Minimalist sculpture-dark lacquered, shining forms, painting
New York, New Mexico. Born 1941
Minimal non ob, installation
New York, New Jersey / Holland. Born 1938/40
Abstract landscape, words, botanic painting
New York. Born 1949
Word play, non objective, views, sculpture
New York / Netherlands, South Africa. Born 1953
Abject figurative and portrait painting and drawing-narrative
California. 1931 - 2020
Calligraphy, non objective painting, conceptualism, teaching
California. Born 1958
Mod-pop whimsy, non ob, sculptor
New York, Connecticut. 1956 - 2022
Modern figure painting; cartoonish collages
New York, New Jersey / Poland. 1922 - 2015
Abstract-illusion and optical art painting, social realism, posters
New York / England, Colombia. Born 1986
Large scale non objective mixed media, performance art
New Mexico, California. 1935 - 2012
Colorful ceramic objects-eggs, teacups, surreal forms
England, India. Born 1974
Visionary, violent image painting and sculpture
New York, Massachusetts. 1935 - 2024
Geometric sculpture, drawing
Austria. Born 1929
Abstract painting, prints, photography
New York, California. 1943 - 1987
Sculptor-conceptual, collage, minimal
New York, Oklahoma. Born 1952
Abstract figure, collage