Turner Prize 2013 - Shortlisted Artists

David Shrigley, I'm Dead (2010)

 David Shrigley, Untitled (2012)

 

Shrigley has been shortlisted for his 2012 Hayward Gallery show in London, Brain Activity  

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Liberation Two-Piece (2013)

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Midnight, Cadiz (2013). 

Yiadom-Boakye has been nominated for her 2012 Chisenhale Gallery show in London, Extracts and Verses, a selection of oil portraits of fictitious black figures  

  Laure Prouvost, installation view of Max Mara Prize for Women at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013)

Laure Prouvost, Wantee (2013). 

Prouvost has been nominated for two separate installations: a film and collage diorama at Whitechapel Gallery in London, and for this surreal tea-party setup that forms part of the Schwitters in Britain show at Tate Britain   

Link to the work of Laure Prouvost: http://www.we-find-wildness.com/2013/04/laure-prouvost/ 

  Tino Sehgal and participants of These Associations at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, an interactive performance with the public in which Sehgal's band of participants gave gallery-goers intimate, uplifting experiences. Sehgal has been shortlisted for this and for his 2012 Documenta show in Germany 

Joan Snyder Review by Bascove at Three Tomatoes

 In Bloom 2012

http://www.thethreetomatoes.com/bascove.html

Spring Cycle 1 for Molly  2011

Break in Two  My Heart  2011

: http://watch.njtvonline.org/video/2198010983/

Take five, goodbye and thank you, Dave Brubeck

 Take Five:

 The Dave Brubeck site:
 http://www.davebrubeck.com/live/

From the Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-dave-brubeck-dead-20121205,0,7126256.column

RIP

Elizabeth Price Wins The Turner Prize 2012

Still from film

" Turner prize 2012: Elizabeth Price is a worthy winner in a vintage year. In a strong field, the artist's video dealing with a terrible 1979 fire in Manchester stood out as a painful, complex and honest work"

 The Guardian December 3. 2012
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/dec/03/turner-prize-elizabeth-price-winner 

"Former 1980s pop musician Elizabeth Price was tonight awarded the Turner Prize for her “seductive and immersive” video trilogy, the first video artist to win for over a decade."

The Independent December 3, 2012 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/elizabeth-price-takes-turner-prize-2012-for-seductive-video-trilogy-8376229.html 

Gerhardt Richter Abstraktes Bild (809-4) Makes Record Sale for a Living Artist

Described as 'a masterpiece of calculated chaos' the painting sold for $34.2 million after 5 minutes of bidding by an anonymous buyer.

See full story UK Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/13/gerhard-richter-painting-record-price

Katherine Bradford: New Work

Dropping Canonballs

Currently showing at Edward Thorp Gallery, 

Katherine Bradford: New Work
April 19 - May 26, 2012

http://edwardthorpgallery.com/exhibitions/exhibitions.html

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Article by John Yau courtesy Hyperallergic: No More Garden Variety Avant-Garde Has-Beens

http://hyperallergic.com/50322/kathy-bradford-edward-thorp-gallery/

"With her first show at Edward Thorp in 2007 (this is her second), Kathy Bradford joined a generation of women painters who have come into their own after they turned fifty and, in some cases sixty (Suzan Frecon, Judith Linhares and Joyce Pensato are three others who come to mind). Their presence argues for a thorough reevaluation of the canonical thinking that has prevailed in America since the early days of Pop Art. That bankrupt narrative, based on the rather flimsy, narcissistic assumption that the art world got it right the first time, with its own obsession with surface and spectacle, leaves little room for the quiet adventurousness and formal variety of these artists’ explorations."

 

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Elizabeth Catlett 1919 - 2012

 "The pioneering sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett died yesterday just two weeks shy of her 97th birthday, the Web site Black Art in America reported. She died at her home in Cuernavaca, 40 miles south of Mexico City, where she had lived since using a Rosenwald Fund Fellowship to travel to Mexico in 1946."  Benjamin Sutton

Courtesy artinfo:

http://artinfo.com/news/story/797596/elizabeth-catlett-african-american-printmaker-and-sculptor-dead-at-96

 "Acclaimed printer maker and sculptor Elizabeth Catlett was born on April 15, 1915 in Washington, D.C. Growing up with grandparents who had been slaves, she was very aware of the injustices against black women. She attended Lucretia Mott Elementary School, Dunbar High School and then Howard University School of Art where she graduated cum laude in 1936. She was denied admittance to the Carnegie Institute because she was African American. After she became the first student to earn an MFA degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940, she studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and later in New York, she studied lithography at the Art Students League. She also spent 1943 studying with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York"

Courtesy: http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1162

 

Obituary courtesy New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/arts/design/elizabeth-catlett-sculptor-with-eye-on-social-issues-dies-at-96.html?_r=1