Browsing items from "January, 2011"

Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot lives and works in London and Berlin. She studied at New York University and at City University, London, before attending the Royal College of Art, London, where she completed her MA in Fine Arts in 1992.

Leigh Ledare

Leigh Ledare is an artist working with photography, archives, video and text.

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar (born 1934) died of AIDS in 1987, leaving behind a complex and profound body of photographs. Hujar was a leading figure in the group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers at the forefront of the cultural scene in downtown New York in the 1970s and early 80s, and he was enormously admired for his completely uncompromising attitude towards work and life.

Duncan Grant

Duncan Grant was a central figure in the circle of artist and writers known as Bloomsbury, which included Grant’s cousin Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Virginia’s sister the painter Vanessa Bell and Vanessa’s husband the critic Clive Bell.

Leon Golub

Leon Golub (born Jan. 23, 1922, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Aug. 8, 2004, New York, N.Y.) was an American figurative painter whose monumental paintings typically depicted acts of brutality, revealing truths about both the attackers and the victims.

Steve Gianakos

Steve Gianakos has been playing vulgarity and offensive humor against sophistication in his paintings and drawings for over 30 years.

Patricia Cronin

Patricia Cronin is a conceptual artist who manipulates and reinvigorates traditional art historical forms to address contemporary issues of sexuality, gender and class.

John Coplans

Born in London in 1920, John Coplans was educated in South Africa and England. After immigrating to the United States in 1960, he began teaching at the University of California at Berkeley.

Lynn Cazabon

Lynn Cazabon is a photographer who employs a variety of electronic media and other techniques in her work. Her photographs, videos, and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent work explores issues pertaining to human attachment to technological devices and artifacts.