Related Research Articles
Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist and photographer. His work has been met with both commercial success and critical acclaim, and has been exhibited worldwide. In 1998, he participated in the 24th International Biennale in São Paulo, and in 2001, he represented Brazil at the 49th Biennale in Venice, Italy.
Inka Essenhigh is an American painter based in New York City. Throughout her career, Essenhigh has had solo exhibitions at galleries such as Deitch Projects, Mary Boone Gallery, 303 Gallery, Stefan Stux Gallery, and Jacob Lewis Gallery in New York, Kotaro Nukaga, Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, and Il Capricorno in Venice.
Kimathi Donkor is a London-based contemporary British artist whose work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. He is of Ghanaian, Anglo-Jewish and Jamaican family heritage, and his figurative paintings depict "African diasporic bodies and souls as sites of heroism and martydom, empowerment and fragility...myth and matter".
Brígida Baltar was a Brazilian visual artist. Her work spanned across a wide range of mediums, including video, performance, installation, drawing, and sculpture. She was interested in capturing the ephemeral in her artwork.
Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó was an Argentine-Brazilian artist, researcher, writer, historian and journalist. His nickname and artistic name, Carybé, a type of piranha, comes from his time in the scouts. He died of heart failure after the meeting of a candomblé community's lay board of directors, the Cruz Santa Opô Afonjá Society, of which he was a member.
Haluk Akakçe was a Turkish contemporary artist living and working in New York and Istanbul whose work explored the intersections between society and technology through video animations, wall paintings and sound installations. He trained in architecture at Bilkent University, Ankara, then graduated with an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Akakçe's work appeared in the Istanbul and São Paulo Biennials, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Walker Art Center. Among solo shows, Akakçe exhibited at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and the Berlin KunstWerke. He was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures award at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2004.
Gastón Ugalde is considered the father of contemporary bolivian art and was the recipient of the prestigious Konex Award in 2002 along with Oscar Niemeyer. Ugalde was named "the most important living Bolivian artist" by the Konex Foundation in Argentina and was also referred to as the "Andean Warhol" by art critics. Ugalde was also known as "the enfant terrible" of the Bolivian Art Scene.
Juhayer Onujum, is a Dutch artist who lives between New York City and Rio de Janeiro. Mulder moved from the Netherlands to the United States in 1993.
Miguel Ángel Rojas is a Colombian conceptual artist born in Bogotá in 1946. His work includes drawing, painting, photography, installations and video and is often related to the sexuality, the marginal culture, the violence and problems involved with drug consumption and production.
Hannah Greely is an American mixed media artist. She mainly creates site-specific sculptural works that seek to redefine the boundary between art and life. Her sculptures are colorful and often replicate ordinary objects or subjects, with subtle incongruencies in material or form. Her material experimentations lend the work an uncanny quality, as recognizable objects fade from real to fictional. Greely’s work explores open dialogue between object and environment, as well as the theatrical otherness of sculpture.
Michael Lazarus is an American painter. He has been working since the early 1990s.
Ara Peterson is an American visual artist. He is known for his music-based films as well as interlaced relief paintings and sculptures, which are rooted in wave patterns and a process-intensive work ethic. Peterson was a founding member of the art collective Forcefield and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Maria Lynch Rio de Janeiro born 1981 is a Brazilian artist
Takeo Yamaguchi was an avant-garde Japanese painter of monochrome Art Informel works.
Jade Matarazzo is a fine arts photographer, arts educator, and curator who creates cultural and social projects using art as a tool for cultural identity. She is the founder of The House of Arts and several other international projects, co-founder of Expoart Japan, Expoart London, and Ateliers Without Borders. Matarazzo is also the founder of Colecta Magazine, an art magazine launched during Art Basel Week 2020 addressing the international modern arts scene.
Fyodor Borisovich Pavlov-Andreevich is a Brazilian artist, curator, and theater director.
Yuko Hasegawa is the director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and professor of curatorial and art theory at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Marcia Grostein Marcia Grostein is a Brazilian-American artist known for using various mediums across public art, sculpture, painting, video art, photography, and portable wearable art/jewelry. She was the first contemporary Brazilian artist to be acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 20th Century Collection by the curator Lowery Sims.
Stefanie Hessler is a German-born contemporary art curator, an art writer, and the current director of Swiss Institute in New York. From 2019 to 2022 she was the director of Kunsthall Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway.
Tikashi Fukushima was a Japanese-Brazilian painter and printmaker. Considered one of the most important abstractionists in Brazil, Fukushima also produced several works in the field of figurativism throughout his career. The artist has received various positive reviews from numerous important art critics for both his abstractionist and figurative productions. Fukushima belongs to the pre-war immigrant generation, composed of common immigrants who, after several changes in their lives, awakened to the arts. His master was Tadashi Kaminagai, whom Fukushima saw as a mentor, but who had a different style of painting than the one he later developed. Tikashi's works have been presented in national and international exhibitions.
References
- ↑ Wilson, Michael (2003) "Assume Vivid Astro Focus: Deitch Projects.(New York)(artist's work is combination of psychedelia and glam, pop kitsch and kitsch pop)", Artforum International , October 1, 2003
- ↑ Hauser, Ethan (2009) "The Back Story | Assume Vivid Astro Focus", The New York Times , February 23, 2009, retrieved 2010-02-21
- 1 2 3 Finkel, Lori (2005) "Dancing on a Ceiling (With Tom Cruise)", The New York Times, October 9, 2005, retrieved 2010-02-21
- 1 2 Cotter, Holland (2002) "ART IN REVIEW; Assume Vivid Astro Focus; -- 'Knowing When to Stop'", The New York Times, June 21, 2002, retrieved 2010-02-21
- ↑ Rabinowitz], [introduction, Natalie Kovacs; [text by] Cay Sophie (2010). Assume vivid astro focus. New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0847833054.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ peresprojects.com/artist-works/12/0/
