Richard Hawkins (artist)

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Richard Hawkins (born 1961 in Mexia, Texas) is an American artist. [1] He lives and works in Los Angeles. [1] His works are held by museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, [2] [1] the Museum of Modern Art, [3] and the Art Institute of Chicago. [4]

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He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas, Austin in 1984 and a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in 1988. [5] [6] After graduating from Cal Arts, Hawkins worked for a time as a short story writer. [7] Hawkins' art largely consists of sculpture and collage. [8] His works combine "ubiquitous pop-culture images and objects with arcane references and quotes"; frequent themes include "current celebrities, literary lions of yesteryear, haunted houses, Asian sex tourism, Greek and Roman statuary and the American Indian experience". [7] He is gay, and his sexuality also informs his artwork. [7] [8] According to art historian Richard Meyer, Hawkins' "mash-up [of] avant-garde, kitsch and kink", including the use of traditionally feminine consumer items, "challenge[s] us to rethink our hierarchies of value and visual pleasure." [7]

Hawkins was instrumental in reviving the work of the late artist Tony Greene, including co-curating (with Catherine Opie) an exhibition of Greene's work that was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial exhibition in New York. [9]

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  4. "Hawkins, Richard". Art Institute of Chicago . Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  5. Neil Schlager, ed. (1998). Gay & Lesbian Almanac . Detroit: St. James Press. p.  516. ISBN   9781558623583.
  6. Mark Coetzee, ed. (2007). Red eye: L.A. artists from the Rubell Family Collection, December 6, 2006-May 31, 2007. Miami, Fla.: Rubell Museum. ISBN   9780978988876.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Young, Paul (February 2011). "Richard Hawkins: The Beautiful and the Damned". LA Times Magazine .
  8. 1 2 "In Conversation with Richard Hawkins". Gayletter . Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  9. Whitney Museum of American Art, "Tony Greene curated by Richard Hawkins and Catherine Opie"
  10. 1 2 "Corvi Mora - Richard Hawkins".
  11. "Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist". Tate Liverpool. February 20, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.

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