Dorothea Rockburne is a Canadian painter renown for her abstract style. Dorothea Rockburne was born in Monteal, Quebec, Canada in the year 1932.
In 1950 Rockburne relocated to the United States where she studied art at Black Mountain College located in North Carolina. In the United States she also would go on to meet a mathematician who greatly influenced her ideas of design, Max Dehn. Rockburne also studied under artists Philip Guston and Franz Kline.
Below we check out a great clip from the Museum of Modern Art located in New York City to view a work of art that draws itself!:
In addition to mathematics Rockburne finds inspiration for her work in the field of astronomy.
The artist relocated to New York City in 1955.
Rockburne is member of the National Academy of Design.
Below we catch up with our fellow art enthusiast James Kalm and view a show featuring Dorothea Rockburne. Rockburne’s work is featured at the one minute mark in the clip:
The artist is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Price range information: The artist works as a printmaker and painter with prices ranging from $5,000 to $30,000.
Two other artist’s who have done works influenced by space and astronomy are Fred Tomaselli and Vija Clemins. All three artists do a great job at using smaller geometric shapes to create larger abstract works.
Chris Burden was an American sculptor, conceptual, and performance artist who got shot and nailed to a car all for art! Chris Burden was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1946.
In one of his best acclaimed series of performance art Chris Burden takes over television. Back in the beginning days of television it didn’t seem a regular person could appear on tube and its 3 channels.
Burden actually bought air time and challenged the idea of local programming. Here are his commercials from the 1970s that actually appeared on tv!:
The artist attended Pomona College located in Claremont, California earning a B.F.A. Burden also attended the University of California at Irvine where he earned a M.F.A. and studied with abstract artist Robert Irwin.
Burden often included architecture and bridges in his artwork.
Burden also enjoyed creating large metropolis cities that were similar to Los Angeles out of model toys and cars.
In this clip we see Chris Burden get shot. The artist grew up during the violent periods of the 1960s and Vietnam war. Here we witness Chris Burden get shot in the left arm by his assistant.:
Chris Burden passed away in May of 2015 at the age of 69.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
Below we catch up with artistic amigo James Kalm. We visit a show featuring Chris Burden and his famous piece titled the Big Wheel from a show that took place in 2013:
Burden was a fascinating artist capable of working in any medium. I enjoy his film works from the 1960s and 1970s the most. With the use of 8mm and 16mm film these works have wonderful home movie feel to them.
Jason Stopa is an American artist who works in a style that fuses Pop and Abstract styles of painting. Jason Stopa was born in the year 1983.
Stopa earned a B.F.A. from Indiana University. He went on to earn a M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute.
In many works the artist is trying to recreate a childhood feeling or imagery. One series the artist completed dealt with visual patterns of old school video games.
The artist is based out of New York City.
In this clip we catch up with the great James Kalm to view an exhibition of works by Jason Stopa:
What I enjoy most about Stopa’s work is that you can see by the results he has fun when he creates art! Which is one of the main reasons for making art.
Robert Swain was born in Austin, Texas in the year 1940. Swain is renown for his style of brigh colors and basic geometric shapes.
Swain attended American University located in Washington D.C. where he earned a bachelor of arts degree.
In this clip we catch up with James Kalm to visit a show featuring the work of Robert Swain from 2010. It is a career retrospective featuring works from 1967 to 2010:
Below a link to the website of the artist. Many works are shown here that cover his art from the 1960s to present day:
Below we catch up with our friend James Kalm and visit a recent show from 2015 that featured the work of Robert Swain:
Price range information: Sorry none available.
Swain is a past recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
Swain’s style of art is very modern in both its design and bright acrylic paint. His work reminds me of street artist invader, as both artists work are similar to the first pixel images seen on computers.
George Condo is an contemporary American artist renown for his own style of art. George Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire in the year 1957.
Condo attended the University of Massachusetts at Lowell where he studied art and music.
Condo refers to his style as “artificial realism.” He enjoys portraying things that don’t really exist. Condo works as a painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
The artist is a part participant of the famed Whitney Biennial.
George Condo is currently based out of New York City.
In this clip we visit Condo in his studio and he shares some of his views on painting:
Price range information: Prices range from prints starting at $10,000 to originals in oils or acrylics reaching $1.3 million.
The artist is part of many prestigious collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City.
Below we catch up with the great James Kalm to view a show featuring works over George Condo’s lengthy career:
Condo is an amazing artist with a unique style. I enjoy the high level of abstraction he brings to his work with the figure.
Amy Sillman is an American painter who is renown for her portraits which are psychological studies of people in addition to her abstract paintings. Amy Sillman was born in Detroit, Michigan in the year 1966.
Sillman attended the School of Visual Arts located in New York City earning a B.F.A. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from Bard College also located in New York City.
Sillman is based out of New York City.
Over her career the artist has won many awards including fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Pollack- Krasner Foundations, and the Guggenheim.
Price range information: Sillman works in many mediums including etching, watercolor, gouache, and oils. Works range from $5,000 to $150,000.
Here we catch up with the great James Kalm to view a show featuring Sillman and Anna Sew Hoy:
The range of style of painting of Amy Sillman is amazing. Sillman’s portraits remind of Lucien Freud’s etchings. Sillman is also a fantastic abstract painter great at producing interesting shapes alongside her bold color choices.
Victor Moscoso is an Spanish/American artist associated with the San Francisco Poster movement that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. He blazed a path in the commercial industry designing concert posters, advertisements, and comics.
Victor Moscoso was born in Olerios, Galicia, Spain in the year 1936. The artist is well educated having studied at the Yale University, Cooper Union College, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
He learned color in college and art school, yet most of his posters were based on the opposite of what he learned. For his use of color he counts the artist Josef Albers as a major influence.
In this clip we catch with our beloved fellow artist and art enthusiast James Kalm to visit a show featuring drawings from the 1960s to the 1980s of Victor Moscoso:
Price range information: Drawings and posters range from $1,000 to $5,000.
Victor Moscoso remains based out of San Francisco.
What I enjoy most about the poster artists, is their modernist ideas when it comes to design. Sure the posters look great and I think sometimes are taken for granted with the use of the computer and so much digital art. But this artist used color by applying to a surface, not by working it on photoshop.
Another key aspect in his design was his use of using his hand drawn letters. He didn’t use a computer or certain font, he developed his own styles of lettering.
What a great artist that was far ahead of his time!
Josh Smith is an contemporary American painter renown for his abstract and collage works which often feature his own name. Josh Smith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in the year 1976.
Smith attended Miami University for two years before earning a B.F.A. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
In many works the artist uses text and also symbols such as leaves, skeletons, and fish. Smith has conquered many mediums in addition to painting including printmaking, sculpture, bookmaking, and ceramics.
In this clip we visit a show of Josh Smith with our beloved friend James Kalm:
Devin Powers is an American artist renown for his abstract paintings and wood carvings. Devin Powers was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1980.
Powers attended Brooklyn College in New York.
In this clip we catch up with James Kalm and attend Devin Powers’ first solo exhibition in New York City:
Below a link to the artist’s website. Many of his later works, the carved wood reliefs shown here:
Below we visit a show featuring Powers’ that took place in 2014 with James Kalm. Kalm visits two galleries before the gallery featuring Devin Powers’ work is shown which is at the 15:58 minute mark of the clip:
The work of Devin Powers reminds of abstract artist Mark Grotjahn and also some of the master Inuit carvers. The mixture of carved wood and color is awesome!
Linda Herritt is a contemporary artist renown for her mixed media works, drawings, paintings, and installations. Herritt attended college at Ohio State University at Columbus earning a B.F.A. The artist went to earn an M.F.A. from the University of Montana located in Missoula.
The artist is a professor at Pace University’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences located in New York City.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
In this clip we view a show featuring the work of Linda Herritt and another artist Elana Herzog with our friend James Kalm:
Herritt has won many prestigious fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Pollack- Krasner Foundation.
I enjoy the artist’s creativity in designing an exiting shape for overall design of her text. Some other artists working with text include Denis Brown, Robert Cottingham, and Stephen Powers. I find Herritt’s work reminds me of French street artist Tilt. Tilt will use a graffiti type lettering to build up three dimensional images.
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