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Bickerton, Ashley  

American, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1959, in Barbados.

Sculptor, installation artist.

Neo-Conceptual Art (Neo-Geo), Appropriation Art, Neo-Pop Art.

Ashley Bickerton lives and works in Los Angeles. He arrived on the American art scene in the mid-1980s. With Peter Halley, Jeff Koons and Meyer Vaisman, Bickerton, he belongs to the group of artists known as the ...

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Halley, Peter  

American, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 24 September 1953, in New York.

Painter, sculptor.

Neo-Conceptual Art (Neo-Geo), Appropriation Art (Simulationism).

Peter Halley studied at Yale University, receiving a BA in 1975, and at the University of New Orleans, where he obtained an MFA in 1978...

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Longo, Robert  

American, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1953, in Brooklyn (New York), United States.

Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, performance artist. Scenes with figures. Multimedia.

Neo-Conceptual Art, Appropriation Art (Simulationism).

Robert Longo served an apprenticeship in the restoration of paintings in Italy, and studied the history of art at the Accademia in Florence. He subsequently visited the art galleries of Europe, in particular the Musée Rodin in Paris. He took part in the foundation of the alternative space Hallwalls in Buffalo, where he was a student at the State University College. He moved to New York in 1977.

Influenced by John Baldessari (1931–), he has made works with images taken from magazines and the cinema. His smooth, academic style – with ‘real life’ images of stars from films or rock concerts – was a reaction against geometric and minimalist abstraction and was regarded at the time as characteristic of ‘Bad Painting’. Taking an image from a film by Werner Fassbinder, ...