Art:21 . Slideshow

Robert Adams 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Robert Adams’s black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. An underlying tension in Adams’s body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera. BIOGRAPHY
Laylah Ali Artist at Work 1990s 2000s			Laylah Ali creates gouache-on-paper paintings that take her many months to complete. Ali meticulously plots out in advance every aspect of her work, from subject matter to choice of color, achieving a high level of emotional tension in her paintings as a result of juxtaposing brightly colored scenes with dark, often violent subject matter. BIOGRAPHY
Allora & Calzadilla 1990s 2000s Artists at Work			Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla approach visual art as a set of experiments. Believing that art can function as a catalyst for social change, the artists solicit active participation and critical responses from their viewers. The artists’ emphasis on cooperation and activism have led them to develop hybrid art forms- sculptures presented solely through video documentation, digitally manipulated photographs, and public artworks generated by pedestrians. BIOGRAPHY
Laurie Anderson 1970s 1980s Artist at Work			The New York art scene of the early 1970s fostered an experimental attitude that attracted Laurie Anderson, and some of her earliest performances took place on the city street. Since that time, Anderson has gone on to create large-scale theatrical works which combine a variety of media- music, video, storytelling, projected imagery, and sculpture. BIOGRAPHY
Eleanor Antin 1970s 1980s 2000s Artist at Work			An influential performance artist, filmmaker, photographer,and installation artist, Eleanor Antin delves into history- whether of ancient Rome, the Crimean War, the salons of nineteenth-century Europe, or her own Jewish heritage and Yiddish culture- as a way to explore the present. Antin is a cultural chameleon, masquerading in theatrical or stage roles to expose her many selves. BIOGRAPHY
Janine Antoni 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Janine Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Antoni transforms everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, such as painting and sculpting. Themes in her work include mortality, desire and the body.BIOGRAPHY
Ida Applebroog Artist at Work 1980s 1990s 2000s			Ida Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into the realm of installation by arranging and stacking canvases in space, exploding the frame-by-frame logic of comic-book and film narrative into three-dimensional environments. Strong themes in her work include gender and sexual identity, power struggles, and the pernicious role of mass media in desensitizing the public to violence. BIOGRAPHY
Charles Atlas 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s			Charles Atlas is a pioneer in the development of media-dance, a genre in which original performance work is created directly for the camera. Many of the his works have been collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and performers, including Yvonne Rainer, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Diamanda Galas, John Kelly, and Leigh Bowery. BIOGRAPHY
Matthew Barney 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Matthew Barney is best known as the producer and creator of the "CREMASTER" films. The title of the films refers to the muscle that raises and lowers the male reproductive system according to temperature, external stimulation, or fear. The films themselves are a grand mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology- a universe in which symbols are densely layered and interconnected. BIOGRAPHY
Louise Bourgeois 1950s 1980s 1990s Artist at Work			Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s Louise Bourgeois had turned her attention to sculptural work for which she is now recognized as a twentieth-century leader. By the 1960s she began to execute her work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became more referential to themes of family, home and childhood. BIOGRAPHY
Mark Bradford 2000s Artist at Work			Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks- underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space- that emerge within a city. Bradford’s work is as informed by his personal background as a third-generation merchant in Los Angeles as it is by the tradition of abstract painting developed worldwide in the twentieth century. BIOGRAPHY
Vija Celmins 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Vija Celmins received attention early on for her renditions of natural scenes- often copied from photographs that lack a point of reference, horizon, or discernable depth of field. Armed with a nuanced palette of blacks and grays, Celmins renders these limitless space- seascapes, night skies, and the barren desert floor- with an uncanny accuracy, working for months on a single image. BIOGRAPHY
Michael Ray Charles 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Michael Ray Charles’ paintings investigate stereotypes drawn from the history of American advertising, product packaging, billboards, and commercials. Charles draws comparisons between Sambo, Mammy, and minstrel images of an earlier era and contemporary portrayals of black youths, celebrities, and athletes- images he sees as a constant in the American subconscious. BIOGRAPHY
Mel Chin 1990s Artist at Work			Mel Chin’s art is analytical and poetic. Alchemy, botany, and ecology are but a few of the disciplines that intersect in his work. Chin and his collaborators insinuate art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. BIOGRAPHY
Mark Dion 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Appropriating archeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates artworks that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’, (‘irrational’) influences. BIOGRAPHY
John Feodorov 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			John Feodorov’s work critiques stereotypes present in American culture, where Native Americans are idealized as the living embodiment of spirituality by New Age consumerists. Fedorov addresses clichés through a humorous interjection of "sacred" items into recognizable consumer products, investing installations and sculptural objects with whimsy and fantasy. BIOGRAPHY
Walton Ford 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Blending depictions of natural history with political commentary, Walton Ford’s meticulous watercolors satirize the history of colonialism and political oppression in the social landscape of today. Each painting is as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth-century industrialists and the foibles of contemporary consumers. BIOGRAPHY
Ellen Gallagher Artist at Work 2000s			Repetition and revision are central to Ellen Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements appropriated from popular magazines. Although her work has often been interpreted as an examination of race, Gallagher also suggests a more formal reading- from afar the work appears abstract and minimal, and employs grids as both structure and metaphors for experience. BIOGRAPHY
Cai Guo-Qiang Artist at Work 1990s 2000s			Cai Guo-Qiang’s fireworks explosions- poetic and ambitious at their core- aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe. For his work, Cai draws on a wide variety of materials, symbols and traditions including elements of feng shui, Chinese medicine, gunpowder, as well as images of dragons and tigers, cars and boats, mushroom clouds and I Ching. BIOGRAPHY
Ann Hamilton 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Ann Hamilton’s work is a unique blend of performance, photography, video, textiles, and sculpture. Best known for her sensual, environmental installations, Hamilton’s work often combine sensory elements of sound, taste, smell and touch. She is as interested in verbal and written language as she is in the visual, and sees the two as related and mutable elements. BIOGRAPHY
Trenton Doyle Hancock 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Trenton Doyle Hancock’s works tell the story of the Mounds- a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of an unfolding epic. Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions- such as the use of color, language, and pattern- into opportunities to convey narratives. BIOGRAPHY
Tim Hawkinson 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Tim Hawkinson is known for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. Inspiration for many of Hawkinson’s pieces has been the re-imagining of his own body and what it means to make a self-portrait of this new or fictionalized body. Sculptures are often re-purposed out of materials which then artist then mechanizes through hand-crafted electrical circuitry. BIOGRAPHY
Arturo Herrera Artist at Work 1990s 2000s			Arturo Herrera’s work includes collage, work on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall-hangings. Rooted in the history of abstraction, Herrera’s playful work taps into the viewer’’s unconscious, often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with cut-out shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection. BIOGRAPHY
Oliver Herring Artist at Work 1990s 2000s			Among Oliver Herring’s earliest works were his woven sculptures and performance pieces in which he knitted Mylar, a transparent and reflective material, into human figures, clothing and furniture. Since 1998, Herring has created stop-motion videos, photo-collaged sculptures, and impromtu participatory performances with ‘off-the-street’ strangers, embracing chance and chance-encounters in his work. BIOGRAPHY
Jenny Holzer 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Whether questioning consumerist impulses, coldly describing torture, or lamenting death and disease, Jenny Holzer’s use of language provokes a critical response in the viewer. While her subversive work often blends in among advertisements in public space, its arresting content violates expectations. Holzer’s texts have appeared on posters, as electronic L.E.D. signs, and as projections of xenon light. BIOGRAPHY
Roni Horn Artist at Work 1980s 1990s 2000s			Roni Horn explores the mutable nature of art through sculptures, works on paper, photography, and books. Horn describes drawing as the key activity in all her work because drawing is about composing relationships. Horn crafts complex relationships between the viewer and her work by installing a single piece on opposing walls or in adjoining rooms. BIOGRAPHY
Hubbard / Birchler 2000s			Artistic collaborators Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler make short films and photographs about the construction of narrative time and space without the context of a traditional story line. Their open-ended, enigmatic narratives elicit multiple readings and reveal a strong sense of carefully constructed mise-en-scène that owes as much to natural history-museum dioramas as to cinematic directorial techniques. BIOGRAPHY
Pierre Huyghe 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Pierre Huyghe’s films, installations, and public events range from a small-town parade to a puppet theater, from a model amusement park to a wildlife expedition in Antarctica. Revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life, Huyghe’s playful work often addresses complex social topics such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the capacity of cinema to shape memory. BIOGRAPHY
Alfredo Jaar 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Through installations, photographs, and community-based projects, Alfredo Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations, often taking the form of an extended meditation or elegy. BIOGRAPHY
Mike Kelley Artist at Work 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s			Mike Kelley’s multi-media work questions the legitimacy of ‘normative’ values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education. Kelley’s work undermines the legitimacy of trauma culture, which posits that almost all behavior results from some form of repressed abuse. BIOGRAPHY
Margaret Kilgallen 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Margaret Kilgallen’s work reflects her encyclopedic knowledge of signs drawn from American folk tradition, printmaking, and letterpress. Kilgallen has a love of "things that show the evidence of the human hand." Painting directly on the wall, Kilgallen creates room-size murals that recall a time when personal craft and handmade signs were the dominant aesthetic. BIOGRAPHY
Beryl Korot 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s			An early video-art pioneer, Beryl Korot’s mult-channel video installations, paintings, and collaborative operas with Steve Reich explore themes of technology, language, spirituality, and history. Weaving is a metaphor for her work, be it the process of video editing or the combination of projected image with music, sculpture and text. BIOGRAPHY
Barbara Kruger 1980s 1990s			Barbara Kruger’s background in design is evident in work which layers found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that implicate the viewer in struggles for power and control. With a trademark palette of red, black and white, Kruger’s work questions feminism, class, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire. BIOGRAPHY
An-My Lê 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			An-My Lê's photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war, framing a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields. Suspended between the formal traditions of documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness. BIOGRAPHY
Maya Lin 1980s 1990s Artist at Work			Maya Lin catapulted into the public eye when she submitted the winning design in the national competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Trained as an artist and architect, her sculptures, parks, monuments, and architectural projects are linked by a desire to make a place for individuals within the landscape. BIOGRAPHY
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s technologically sophisticated works use natural forms such as clouds, icebergs, and DNA as metaphors for understanding social issues such as immigration, gun violence, and human cloning. The artist’s strategy of representing nature through information leads to an investigation of the underlying forces that shape the planet as well as points of human interaction and interference with the environment. BIOGRAPHY
Sally Mann 1980s 1990s Artist at Work			Sally Mann’s early "Immediate Family" photographs were of her three children and husband. In her more recent series of landscapes of the deep South, Mann uses damaged lenses to make images marked by the scratches, light leaks, and shifts in focus that were part of the photographic process as it developed during the 19th century. BIOGRAPHY
Kerry James Marshall 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			The subject matter of Kerry James Marshall’s paintings, installations, and public projects is often drawn from African-American popular culture. A striking aspect of his paintings is the emphatically black skin tone of his figures, a comment on the invisibility of blacks in America and the unnecessarily negative connotations associated with darkness. BIOGRAPHY
Josiah McElheny Artist at Work 1990s 2000s			Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny’s work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny’s work often takes the form of historical fictions. BIOGRAPHY
Barry McGee 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			A cult figure amongst skaters and graffiti artists, Barry McGee’s drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray-paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal. McGee is also a graffiti artist, known by the tag "Twist." BIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Murray 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Elizabeth Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray’s paintings and watercolors playfully blur the line between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects. BIOGRAPHY
Bruce Nauman 1980s Artist at Work			Bruce Nauman finds inspiration in the activities, speech, and materials of everyday life. Working in the diverse mediums of sculpture, video, film, printmaking, performance, and installation, Nauman concentrates less on the development of a characteristic style and more on the way in which a process or activity can transform or become a work of art. BIOGRAPHY
Gabriel Orozco 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Gabriel Orozco uses the urban landscape and everyday objects to twist conventional notions of reality. He considers philosophical problems, such as the concept of infinity, and evokes them in humble moments. Matching his passion for political engagement with poetry, Orozco’s works propose a distinctive model for the ways in which artists can affect the world with their work. BIOGRAPHY
Pepón Osorio 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Pepón Osorio’s sculptures and large-scale installations are influenced by his experience as a social worker and often evolve from interactions with neighborhoods. "My principal commitment as an artist is to return art to the community," says Osorio, who has worked in neighborhoods from Puerto Rico to Philadelpia to the Bronx. BIOGRAPHY
Raymond Pettibon 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			A cult figure associated with the Los Angeles punk rock scene, Raymond Pettibon has acquired a reputation as one of the foremost artists working with drawing, text, and artist’s books. Pettibon is as likely to explore the subject of surfing as he is typography; themes from art history and nineteenth-century literature appear in the same breath with the American politics from the 1960s. BIOGRAPHY
Judy Pfaff 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, Judy Pfaff creates exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, and synthetic color into a tense yet organic whole. A pioneer of installation art in the 1970s, Pfaff synthesizes sculpture, painting, and architecture into dynamic environments in which space seems to expand and collapse, fluctuating between two and three dimensions. BIOGRAPHY
Paul Pfeiffer 2000s Artist at Work			Paul Pfeiffer’s groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. Pfeiffer’s intimate and idealized video works are often presented on small LCD screens and loop infinitely- meditations on faith, desire, and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity. BIOGRAPHY
Lari Pittman 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman’s meticulously layered paintings transform pattern and signage into luxurious scenes. Meditations on romantic love, violence, and mortality, his work demonstrates the complementary nature of beauty and suffering, pain and pleasure. In a manner both visually gripping and psychologically strange, Pittman’s hallucinatory works reference myriad aesthetic styles, from Victorian silhouettes to social realist murals to Southwestern kitsch. BIOGRAPHY
Martin Puryear 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Martin Puryear’s sculptures- in wood, stone, tar, wire, and various metals- are a marriage of Minimalist logic with traditional ways of making. Puryear’s exploration in abstract forms retain vestigial elements of utility from everyday objects found in the world. A form that reoccurs in Puryear’s work is the hollow mass, a solid shape with qualities of uncertainty and emptiness. BIOGRAPHY
Matthew Ritchie Artist at Work 2000s			Matthew Ritchie’s work describes the formation of the universe and deals explicitly with the idea of information being "on the surface." Although often described as a painter, Ritchie creates works on paper, lenticular prints, large-scale installations, freestanding sculpture, web sites, and short stories which tie his sprawling works together into a narrative structure. BIOGRAPHY
Susan Rothenberg Artist at Work 1970s 1990s 2000s			Susan Rothenberg’s early images of horses served as formal elements for investigating the mechanics of meaning, composition and color. Rothenberg’s paintings since the 1990s reflect her move from New York to New Mexico, her adoption of oil painting, and her new-found interest in using the memory of observed and experienced events as an armature for painting. BIOGRAPHY
Robert Ryman 1950s 1960s 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Robert Ryman’s work explodes the classical distinctions between art as object and art as surface, sculpture and painting, structure and ornament- emphasizing instead the role that perception and context play in creating an aesthetic experience. Ryman isolates the most basic of components- material, scale, and support- enforcing limitations that allow the viewer to focus on the physical presence of the work in space. BIOGRAPHY
Collier Schorr 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Collier Schorr’s photographs examine the way nationality, gender and sexuality influence an individual’s identity. Known for her portraits of adolescents, Schorr’s pictures often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction. Schorr trains her camera on tribes of young men whose bodies and athletic training homogenize personal differences, including soldiers and wrestlers. BIOGRAPHY
Richard Serra 1960s 1990s Artist at Work			Richard Serra’s work since the 1960s has focused on the industrial materials that he had worked with as a youth in West Coast steel mills and shipyards: steel and lead. Serra’s work is known for it’s immense physicality, compounded by the breathtaking bends and curves of steel plates that carve private moment out of public spaces. BIOGRAPHY
Shahzia Sikander 2000s Artist at Work			Shahzia Sikander specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting, a traditional style that is both highly stylized and disciplined. Her work blends the Eastern focus on precision and methodology with a Western emphasis on creative, subjective expression. Sikander juxtaposes Hindu, Muslim, and Western iconography, entangling histories, meanings, and beliefs. BIOGRAPHY
Laurie Simmons 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as ‘living objects’, animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult’s memories, longings, and regrets. Her work blends psychological, political and conceptual approaches to art making, transforming photography’s propensity to objectify people, especially women, into a sustained critique of the medium. BIOGRAPHY
Kiki Smith 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Kiki Smith’s work explores the body as a receptacle for knowledge, belief, and storytelling. Smith turned the figurative tradition inside out by creating objects and drawings based on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system. This body of work evolved to incorporate animals, domestic objects, and narrative tropes from classical mythology and folk tales. BIOGRAPHY
Nancy Spero 1960s 1970s 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			A pioneer of feminist art, Nancy Spero’s work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War. BIOGRAPHY
Jessica Stockholder Artist at Work 1980s 1990s 2000s			A pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, Jessica Stockholder’s site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as "paintings in space." Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but closer observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control. BIOGRAPHY
Hiroshi Sugimoto Artist at Work 1980s 1990s 2000s			Central to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s work is the idea that photography is a time machine, a method of preserving and picturing memory and time. Sugimoto sees with the eye of the sculptor, painter, architect, and philosopher. He creates images that seem to convey his subjects’ essence, whether architectural, sculptural, painterly, or of the natural world. BIOGRAPHY
Do-Ho Suh 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Known for sculptures and installations that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Do-Ho Suh’s work draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. Exploring the fine line between strength in numbers and homogeneity, Suh’s works question the identity of the individual in today’s increasingly transnational, global society. BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Sullivan 2000s Artist at Work			Catherine Sullivan’s anxiety-inducing films and live performances reveal the degree to which everyday gestures and emotional states are scripted and performed, probing the border between innate and learned behavior. Sullivan’s appropriation of classic Hollywood filming styles, period costumes, and contemporary spaces such as corporate offices draws the viewer’s attention away from traditional narratives and towards an examination of performance itself. BIOGRAPHY
James Turrell 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			James Turrell’s explorations in light and space impact the eye, body and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening. Informed by his studies in perceptual psychology and optical illusions, Turrell’s work allows us to see ourselves "seeing." "Roden Crater," an extinct volcano the artist has transformed into a celestial observatory, brings the heavens down to earth. BIOGRAPHY
Richard Tuttle Artist at Work 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s			Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his work. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials. Influences on his work include calligraphy, architecture, and poetry. BIOGRAPHY
Ursula von Rydingsvard 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and sensuous, puzzle-like surfaces. While abstract at its core, Von Rydingsvard’s work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects- such as the artist’s collection of household vessels- and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man-made meets nature. BIOGRAPHY
Kara Walker 1990s 2000s Artist at Work			Kara Walker’s work explores the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through iconic, silhouetted figures. Walker unleashes the traditionally Victorian medium of the silhouette directly onto the walls of the gallery. In recent works, the Walker uses overhead projectors to throw light onto the walls and floor of the exhibition space, implicating the audience through their own shadows. BIOGRAPHY
William Wegman 1990s 2000s			William Wegman is best known for his photographic series in which he poses Weimaraner dogs in a variety of scenes, situations and costumes that evoke multiple and shifting identities. A pioneer in conceptual art and photography of the 1970s, Wegman’s work also includes videos and paintings characterized by the artist’s dead-pan humor and word play. BIOGRAPHY
Fred Wilson Artist at Work 1990s 2000s			Appropriating curatorial methods and strategies, Fred Wilson creates new contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections, along with wall labels, sound, lighting, and non-traditional pairings of objects. His sculptures and installations lead viewers to recognize that changes in context create changes in meaning, and thereby shape interpretations of historical truth and artistic value. BIOGRAPHY
Krzysztof Wodiczko Artist at Work 1980s 1990s 2000s			Krzysztof Wodiczko creates large-scale slide and video projections of politically-charged images on architectural façades and monuments worldwide. By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Zittel 1990s Artist at Work			Andrea Zittel’s sculptures and installations transform everything necessary for life- such as eating, sleeping, bathing and socializing- into artful experiments in living. Zittel’s "A-Z Administrative Services" develops furniture, homes, vehicles, and utlitarian objects for contemporary consumers. BIOGRAPHY