Famous Artist #28

Barbara Kruger

Born 1945 ( 75 years old

American conceptual artist and collagist. She is known for her BW photos with red and white letters. Addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality

She went to Syracuse but left due to her dads death and then went to Parson’s School of Design

During the 10 years after she did some freelance work editing photos and designing book jackets.

In the 60’s she began attending poetry reading and writing.

She worked at  Condé Nast Publications and after a while she got the head designer job. she also worked at  Mademoiselle and later moved on to work part-time as a picture editor at House and Garden, Aperture, and other publications. She also wrote film, television, and music columns for Artforum and Real Life Magazine.

Her early work was large wall hangings made out of different materials such as yarn, beads, sequins, feathers and ribbons also crocheted, sewed and painted bright-hued and erotically suggestive objects. This work was at the 1973 Whitney Biennial.

1976 she took a break from making what had become more abstract works, feeling that her work had become meaningless and mindless.

She taught at the University of California and became inspired by the writings. 1977 she returned to artmaking, working with her own architectural photographs

Kruger has often been grouped with such feminist postmodern artists.

She works with found photographs and mixes in text to challenge the viewer

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Famous Artist #27

Joseph Kosuth

Born 1945 and is 75 years old

He is an American conceptual artist.

Attended at Toledo Museum School of Design as well as studied under Line Bloom Draper privately. Enrolled at Cleveland Institute of Art on a scholarship. 1967 attended SVA in NYC. Also while in NY he studied anthropology and philosophy at New School of Social Research.

While at SVA he made a big impact and his reputation grew he was removed as a student and became a teacher.

He founded the Museum of Normal Art.

Helped coin the conceptual art movement.

art, as he put it, "was not a question of forms and colors but one of the production of meaning.

He has been a teacher at schools but is Currently he is Professor at the Kunstakademie Munich and at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura.

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Famous Artist #26

Sol LeWitt

Born 1928 and died 2007 (78 years old

American artist whos work is conceptual as well as minimal. He is well known for his wall murals. He did also did drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation.

He got a BFA from Syracuse university in 1949.

Served in the Korean War.

1953 set up a studio in the Lower East Side (NYC)

Studied at School of Visual Arts in NYC while also diving into his interest of design at seventeen magazine.

Around 1955 he worked as a graphic designer and discovered the work of a photographer ( Eadweard Muybridge), He also worked at night at the MOMA those were some of his influences.

Like other famous artists he became a teacher for several schools.

With his most famous works being the wall murals, he would first have guidelines and simple diagrams of what the wall would look like. He would have other people take his drawings/ideas and and put them on the wall. Even today his work is being made on walls.

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Famous Artist #25

Shepard Fairey

Born 1970 (50 years old)

Contemporary street artist, graphic design, illustrator, founder, activist.

Started making art in 1984 with skate culture.

He went to Rhode Island School of Deign in 1992. where he got a Bachelor degree in Illustration.

OBEY/Andre the Giant was his first big design and one of the things he is known for as well as the founder of the clothing brand.

After graduating he started working for a small print shop doing graphics, tshirts, silk screen.

Him and 2 other people came up with a design studio called BLK/MRKT Inc where they did  guerrilla marketing. They worked with Pepsi,Hasbro, Netscape

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