Bridget Donahue | |
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Born | Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A [1] |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | American art dealer |
Known for | Bridget Donahue Gallery |
Website | https://www.bridgetdonahue.nyc/ |
Bridget Donahue is an American gallerist and curator. [2]
Donahue's studies include a B.A. in anthropology and M.A. in textiles. [3] Her work with textiles led her to the art of Rosemarie Trockel, and in turn, led Ms. Donahue to a position at the Gladstone Gallery, which represents Trockel. [4]
After the Gladstone Gallery, Donahue worked at the D’Amelio Terras Gallery before becoming a gallery director at Gavin Brown's Enterprise. [5] In 2008, she co-founded the Brooklyn gallery space Cleopatra’s with three friends. [6]
In 2015, Donahue opened her eponymous gallery in Manhattan's Lower East Side, which made a number of “Best of 2015” lists from publications such as The New York Times and Art in America magazine. [2] Bridget Donahue represents and shows contemporary artists including, as of 2019; Lisa Alvarado, [7] Susan Cianciolo, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Satoshi Kojima, Monique Mouton, Sondra Perry, Jessi Reaves, John Russell, Olga Balema Martine Syms, and Mark Van Yetter. [4] Two gallery artists were included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial: Jessi Reaves and Susan Cianciolo. [4] Martine Syms and Olga Balema were included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta. [8]
Rosemarie Trockel is a German conceptual artist. She has made drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations, and has worked in mixed media. From 1985, she made pictures using knitting-machines. She is a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Jim Hodges is a New York-based installation artist. He is known for his mixed-media sculptures and collages that involve delicate artificial flowers, mirrors, chains as spiderwebs, and cut-up jeans.
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Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist. Wilson creates sculpture, drawings, Internet projects, photography, performance, and DVD stop motion animations employing table linens, bed sheets, human hair, lace, thread and wire. Her work extends the traditional processes of fiber art to other media. Wilson is a professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Martine Syms is an American artist residing in Los Angeles, specializing in various mediums including publishing, video, installation, and performance. Her artistic endeavors revolve around themes of identity, particularly the representation of the self, with a focus on subjects like feminism and black culture. Syms frequently employs humor and social commentary as vehicles for exploration within her work. In 2007, she introduced the term "Conceptual Entrepreneur" to describe her artistic approach.
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Susan Cianciolo is a fashion designer and artist.
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