 | This biographical article is written like a résumé .(July 2018) |
Benjamin Degen | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 14, 1976 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Education | The Cooper Union, Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse | Hope Gangloff |
| Father | Bruce Degen |
Benjamin Degen (born 1976) is an American painter based in New York City.
Benjamin Degen was born in Brooklyn, New York, to children's book author and illustrator Bruce Degen and artist Christine Degen. He received his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from The Cooper Union School of Art and Science in 1998. A year prior to receiving his B.F.A, he participated in the Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, a summer program at Yale University for rising undergraduate seniors in the fine arts. [1]
Degen finds inspiration in classical painting, nature, and the human body. His work often explores the relationships between groups and individuals within their urban or natural surroundings. In a review for The Brooklyn Rail , Jonathan Beer wrote, “Degen’s technique and figurative scenes call to mind the work of Dana Schutz and George Seurat. He paints the fleeting and flickering play of light on an unfixed world.” [2]
Degen has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Collezione Maramotti, MoMA PS1, and The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut. [3] Degen's work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; and The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, New York. [3]
He is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery, New York. [3]
Degen is married to artist Hope Gangloff. [4] His brother is the comic book artist Alex Degen. [5]
Philip Guston was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years." He frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as—especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work—the banality of evil. In 2013, Guston's painting To Fellini set an auction record at Christie's when it sold for $25.8 million.
Ilya Bolotowsky was an early 20th-century Russian-American painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site-specific wall drawings.
Sylvia Plimack Mangold is an American artist, painter, printmaker, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and landscapes. She is the mother of film director/screenwriter James Mangold and musician Andrew Mangold.
Nicolas Carone belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Their artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized internationally, including in London and Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Conrad Marca-Relli and others, became a leading art movement of the postwar era.
Susanna J. Coffey is an American artist and educator. She is the F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives and works in New York City. She was elected a member the National Academy of Design in 1999.
Mira Schor is an American artist, writer, editor, and educator, known for her contributions to critical discourse on the status of painting in contemporary art and culture as well as to feminist art history and criticism.
Ryan Wallace is an American multi-media artist based in Brooklyn and East Hampton, New York.
Allison Miller is a contemporary painter based in Los Angeles.
Dennis Kardon is an American painter based in Brooklyn, New York. The New York Times's Ken Johnson has described Dennis Kardon's paintings as "generously painterly, voluptuously creepy narrative pictures of familial conflict, sexual angst and infantile yearning." Kardon's work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad.
Hope Gangloff is an American painter based in New York City who is known for her vividly-colored portraiture.
Greg Smith is an American interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York whose practice consists of installation art, sculpture, and video.
William Villalongo is an American artist working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation art. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Villalongo is an associate professor at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.
Elena Sisto is an American painter based in New York.
Gary Stephan is an American abstract painter born in Brooklyn who has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Europe.
Josephine Halvorson is an American contemporary painter, sculptor, and print maker based in Massachusetts. She is best known for her on-site paintings, drawing from scenes of the natural world and everyday life. Her work bends material fact and immaterial illusion. Halvorson is a Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University.
Kenny Rivero is a Dominican-American visual artist who makes paintings, drawings, and sculptures that explore the complexity of identity through narrative images, collage and assemblage, language, and symbolism. Rivero is currently a Lecturer in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art and a Visiting Artist at The Cooper Union.
David Row is a contemporary abstract painter associated with the movements of Postmodern Painting and Conceptual Abstraction. His primary aesthetic has evolved around a language of painterly fragmented geometric abstraction that is usually formed on shaped canvases and installations. Row lives and works in both New York City and Cushings Island, Maine. He is married to former AIGA NY Board president Kathleen Schenck Row.
Doron Langberg is an American painter. Langberg paints in the style of genre painting and portraiture and addresses issues of gender and sexuality by making love and desire a shared experience through the surface and subjects of his paintings.
Joanna Pousette-Dart is an American abstract artist, based in New York City. She is best known for her distinctive shaped-canvas paintings, which typically consist of two or three stacked, curved-edge planes whose arrangements—from slightly precarious to nested—convey a sense of momentary balance with the potential to rock, tilt or slip. She overlays the planes with meandering, variable arabesque lines that delineate interior shapes and contours, often echoing the curves of the supports. Her work draws on diverse inspirations, including the landscapes of the American Southwest, Islamic, Mozarabic and Catalan art, Chinese landscape painting and calligraphy, and Mayan art, as well as early and mid-20th-century modernism. Critic John Yau writes that her shaped canvasses explore "the meeting place between abstraction and landscape, quietly expanding on the work of predecessors", through a combination of personal geometry and linear structure that creates "a sense of constant and latent movement."
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
