American, 20th century, male.
Born 6 December 1939, in Chicago.
Painter (mixed media), sculptor, designer (furniture).
Finish Fetish, Light and Space.
Larry Bell grew up in San Fernando Valley. In 1957 he joined the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles with the intention of becoming a draughtsman at Disney. However, inspired by the teaching of Robert Irwin and his peers, he resolved to become a painter and left the school before graduating in ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 6 November 1932, in Emporia (Kansas).
Assemblage artist, painter, furniture designer.
Wendell Castle studied at the University of Kansas, receiving a BFA in sculpture in 1958 and an MFA in industrial design in 1961. He has taught at the University of Kansas (...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1969.
Sculptor of assemblages.
Vincent Fecteau's sculptures have similarities with baroque furniture. He has been exhibiting regularly in the USA since the early 1990s, particularly at Feature Inc. in New York. He has participated in various collective exhibitions, including: ...
German, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1956.
Installation artist, sculptor. Animals.
In the 1980s Grünfeld created rigorously constructed installations portraying bourgeois furniture. These installations integrated composite items of furniture within the gallery space, which were seemingly usable but dangerously unstable; they were designed to be seen and not used, such as wooden frames with the picture missing, instead filled with padding and supported by coloured leather. Similarly, borrowing from animal sculpture, in the 1990s he created the ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1930, in Bellingham (Washington State).
Engraver, lithographer, installation artist, sculptor.
Conceptual Art.
David Ireland studied industrial design and printmaking at the Californian College of Arts and Crafts, graduating in 1953. He worked as an architectural draughtsman, a carpenter and an African safari guide before returning to art education in the 1970s. In ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1955, in Kenosha (Wisconsin).
Installation artist. Furniture.
Jim Isermann lives and works in Palm Springs, California. In his furniture pieces and wall coverings he attempts to broach the middle ground between high art and design. In 1950s America, industrial designers sought to imbue utilitarian objects with utopian ideals borrowed from the visual arts. In turn, artists with Pop, Op Art or Minimalist agendas looked to domestic products for inspiration, recognising their role as mass-produced icons of a new found capitalist optimism. This dialogue between ornamentation, materiality and iconography provides the basis for Isermann's work. In ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 4 November 1952, in Casablanca.
Sculptor (including bronze), assemblage artist, designer. Furniture.
Using a variety of objects and materials, Michel Kiriliuk creates what he calls furniture - tables, consoles and standard lamps - the extremely Baroque nature of which renders their use problematic. He has exhibited at various Salons in Paris, including the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and the Salon d'Automne....
Hungarian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1959, in Mako.
Painter (mixed media).
Tamas Kotai trained as an industrial designer. He won the Derkovits study prize. Somewhat abstract, his painting style encourages the viewer to establish links between different feelings. In 1986, he became a member of the ...
German, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1962, in Munich.
Painter, installation artist, photographer. Wall decorations, furniture.
Regina Möller lives and works in Berlin. Using installations or photographs, she tackles the subject of traditional representations of women in daily life, at home or at work, putting herself in the situation. Since ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1955, in Rheims.
Painter, installation artist.
The starting point of Jean-Luc Moulene's work is advertising and its styles of expression - logos, brands and packaging - but he also uses artistic references in their generic forms (nudes, portraits, still-lifes, landscapes). His impressive silkscreen prints and posters raise questions about the way art is produced, distributed and retailed....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1927, of Polish origin; died 1989.
Painter, assemblage artist, draughtsman. Figures. Furniture.
Art Brut.
Jean Smilowski lived and worked in Lille at his cabin 'le Ranch', located on the Vaubon fortifications. He filled it with his creations. In 2001 he was represented in the group exhibition ...
Estonian, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 8 October 1949, in Tallinn.
Assemblage artist, collage artist, painter, performance artist.
Hyperrealism.
Soup ’69.
Andres Tolts studied industrial design at the Tallinn Art Institute from 1968 to 1973. Instructor Mare Vint introduced Tolts and his friends to Tõnis Vint and other members of the ANK group, which organised unofficial lectures on subjects such as Pop Art, surrealism, and semiotics....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1941, in Marseilles.
Assemblage artist.
Pascal Verbena is self-taught, and works with pieces of driftwood recovered from the beach. He uses these to make small pieces of furniture resembling altarpieces, which open up to reveal figures made of wood.
He has shown at group exhibitions, including: Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, ...
French, 20th century, male.
Active in Germany.
Born 1943, in Carcassonne.
Painter, collage artist, assemblage artist. Figures.
Gérard Walther was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon from 1961 to 1963, then studied commercial art in Hamburg, where he lives and works. His collages and mixed media come close to abstraction. The material he uses, the colours applied with a knife, the relief effects, the scratches and the trails of paint sometimes threaten to overwhelm the large, anonymous and blurred figures, which can get lost in the canvas. In the same spirit, but in a Surrealist vein, he 'booby-traps' his objects....
