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Blake, Nayland  

American, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1 February 1960, in New York.

Sculptor, assemblage artist, graphic artist.

Nayland Blake studied at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, receiving his BFA there. In 1984 he obtained a MFA from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia, CA. Blake is a conceptual artist, concentrating primarily on themes of racial, sexual and personal identities, with emphasis on the threat of AIDS and the gay identity. His early works, such as ...

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Flack, Audrey  

American, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 30 May 1931, in New York.

Painter, sculptor, graphic artist, printmaker, lithographer. Still-lifes, figures.

Audrey Flack studied at the Cooper Union, New York (1948-1951); Yale University, New Haven (BFA, 1952) with Jossef Albers; the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1953); and the Art Students League, New York, under Robert Beverly Hale. She has taught in New York at the Pratt Institute and New York University (1960-1968); the Riverside Museum Master Institute (1966-1967); the School of Visual Arts (1970-1974); and the National Academy of Design (from 1987). Flack has been Albert Dorne Professor at University of Bridgeport, CT (1975); Mellon Professor at the Cooper Union, New York (1982); C. & R. Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor, George Washington University (1992); and Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1994). She has served on the boards of directors of the College Art Association of America (1989-1994), the Wonder Woman Foundation, and Interns for Peace....

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Jiménez, Luis  

American, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 30 July 1940, in El Paso (Texas); died 13 June 2006, in Hondo, in a studio accident.

Sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist. Figures.

As a child, Luis Jiménez learned welding and spray-painting in his father's sign shop. He studied at the University of Texas in Austin, obtaining a BS in art and architecture in ...

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Morla, Jennifer  

Amy Fox

(b New York, 1955).

American graphic designer, sculptor, and painter. Growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Morla was introduced to the rich culture of New York City at an early age, seeing the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, visiting many museums, and drawing from her own Spanish heritage, quickly gaining an appreciation for culture and the arts. Morla enjoyed drawing and went on to study art at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, in the early 1970s, at the height of the conceptual art movement. Morla learnt the tenets of conceptual art at Hartford, and while this did not give her the opportunity to improve her drawing skills as she expected, it taught her to illustrate concept without image. Sensing that her skills lay in the field of graphic design, she transferred to Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, where she obtained a BFA in Graphic Design. After graduation she accepted a job in the late 1970s as senior designer for KQED, San Francisco’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Station; a job that taught her to work with sound and motion and to stay within a limited budget. She left KQED to work as an art director at Levi-Strauss & Company, where she learnt the art of communicating the design process to co-workers who did not necessarily understand design or the design process. It was a skill Morla found useful when she began working with clients in her own company....

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Mullican, Matt  

American, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in New York City.

Born 18 September 1951, in Santa Monica (California).

Sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, poster artist.

Computer Art (Virtual Art).

Matt Mullican attended the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, where he studied with the conceptual artist John Baldessari, obtaining a BFA in ...

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Pierson, Jack  

American, 20th–21st century, male.

Born 24 September 1960, in Provincetown (Massachusetts).

Painter, sculptor, photographer, installation artist, graphic artist. Figures, letters, flowers, landscapes, found objects.

Boston School.

Jack Pierson studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, obtaining a BFA in 1984. He is known as a member of the Boston School, which was a group of photographers including artists like Nan Goldin and David Armstrong. The group were based in Boston in the early 1980s and their photography focused on their mutual friends in intimate or casual settings. Pierson lives and works in New York City and in southern California, but travels frequently to Las Vegas and Provincetown, Massachusetts. He has worked as a photographer for Vogue magazine and has also photographed notable models and celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Brad Pitt, Naomi Campbell, and Michael Bergin.

His work demonstrates a shift away from Pop, impersonal appropriation, and anonymous imagery, to a more intimate expression of self and the evocation of emotional response from his viewers. His work is varied, ranging from photographic portraits, ‘word pieces’, neon sculptures, and installations, to books, drawings, and collage. In his photography, he often used over-exposure and colour saturation, particularly in his early works. His art tells stories of everyday life, with common themes of loneliness, social and urban isolation, male intimacy, gender ambiguity, eroticism of desire, and transience....

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Simmons, Gary  

American, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1964, in New York.

Draughtsman, sculptor. Scenes with figures.

Gary Simmons obtained a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and illustration from the School for Visual Arts, New York, in 1988, and a master's degree in fine art from the California Institute of Arts in ...

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Smith, Kiki  

American, 20th–21st century, female.

Born 18 January 1954, in Nuremberg, Germany.

Sculptor (mixed media), graphic artist.

Kiki Smith was born in Germany, but grew up in New Jersey. Her father was the sculptor Tony Smith, and as a child she helped him make cardboard models for his geometric models, thereby learning about Formalism and Minimalism. She studied at Hartford Art School (1974–1976), and has also trained in industrial baking and as an Emergency Medical Technician. She has lived in New York since 1976 and was associated with Collaborative Projects Inc. there through the early 1980s. Influences on her work include Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois and Lee Bontecou....