Stephen Kaltenbach

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Stephen Kaltenbach
Born1940 (age 78–79)
Battle Creek, Michigan
NationalityAmerican
Education University of California, Davis
Known for painting, sculpture, conceptual art
Movement Conceptual art, Post-minimalism
AwardsNational Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1977-78
Guggenheim Fellowship
1978-79

Stephen J. Kaltenbach (born 1940) is an American artist and author based in Sacramento, California.

Sacramento, California State capital and city of California, United States

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Early life and education

Kaltenbach was born in Battle Creek, Michigan. He attended the University of California, Davis between 1963 and 1967, earning a B.A. and M.A. [1] At UC Davis, Kaltenbach studied alongside notable artists including David Gilhooly, Richard Shaw and Bruce Nauman. [2]

Battle Creek, Michigan City in Michigan, United States

Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which encompasses all of Calhoun County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 52,347, while the MSA's population was 136,146.

University of California, Davis public university located in Davis, California, United States

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David Gilhooly American artist

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Career

After graduating, Kaltenbach spent three years in New York City, producing paintings and a variety of conceptual work including bronze time capsules, graffiti, sidewalk plaques and hoax advertisements. [3] [4] He exhibited alongside Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Alan Saret and Bruce Nauman at the Leo Castelli Gallery show "Nine" in 1968, and had a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1969. [5]

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Eva Hesse German-born American sculptor

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In 1970 Kaltenbach left the New York contemporary art world and returned to California, taking up a position at California State University, Sacramento where he taught until 2005. Kaltenbach chose to refashion his practice in California, abandoning public conceptual work and instead adopting the persona of a "Regional Artist" with a focus on figurative sculpture and portraiture. [6] [7]

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Kaltenbach has also produced public art pieces for the city of Sacramento. [8]

Notable works

Kaltenbach remains best known for the conceptual work he produced in the late 1960s, with recent exhibitions of his bronze time capsules and other pieces from that era. [9] [10]

His most notable painting is Portrait of my Father (1972–79), on display at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. [11]

He is also known for work inspired by a found object known as the "Slant Step" which was discovered by William T. Wiley and Bruce Nauman. [12] [13] He has produced drawings, sculptures, films and other work related to the step, most notably Slant Step 2, now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. [14]

Public collections

Kaltenbach's work is part of a number of public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, [15] the National Gallery of Art, [16] the Crocker Art Museum, [11] the Walker Art Center [17] and the Kröller-Müller Museum. [18]

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  2. ↑ Constance M. Lewallen (2007). A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s. University of California Press. p. 193. ISBN   978-0520250857.
  3. ↑ John Chiaverina (May 16, 2016). "Journey Through the Past: Stephen Kaltenbach, a Forgotten Conceptual Master, Makes a Comeback in New York". ArtNews.
  4. ↑ DJ Pangburn (May 26, 2016). "How to Subvert the Art World and Get Away with It". VICE.
  5. ↑ Mario Garciá Torres. "9 at Leo Castelli" (PDF). hundredyearsof.files.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  6. ↑ Erik Wenzel (November 24, 2014). "Conceptual Art Legend Stephen Kaltenbach In Conversation". Artslant.
  7. ↑ Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer (September 1, 2010). "Altered Ego: Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer on Stephen Kaltenbach". The Free Library. Artforum International.
  8. ↑ Tara Ingram (October 11, 2011). "Fountain: Time to Cast Away Stones ~ 13th & K". Pedestrian Art, Sacramento.
  9. ↑ Peter Malone (June 14, 2016). "Revisiting the Anti-Establishment Posturing of an Established Artist". Hyperallergic.
  10. ↑ "Stephen Kaltenbach at Pierogi". Pierogi. January 5, 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  11. 1 2 "Portrait of my Father, 1972-1979". Crocker Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  12. ↑ "Stephen Kaltenbach, Slant Step Observations". Chicago Gallery News. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  13. ↑ "Stephen Kaltenbach". MCA Chicago. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  14. ↑ "Slant Step". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  15. ↑ "Stephen Kaltenbach". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  16. ↑ "Earth Mound in a Room with Skylight". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  17. ↑ "Stephen Kaltenbach". Walker Art Center. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  18. ↑ "Stephen Kaltenbach". Kröller-Müller Museum. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
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