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Ross Bleckner (born May 12, 1949) is an American artist.
Life and work
Ross Bleckner was born in New York City. Bleckner grew up in Hewlett, New York and graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1967. He has a B.A. from New York University (1971)[1] and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts (1973).[2]
He is the youngest gay artist ever to have a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.[citation needed]
His exhibition of stripe paintings in 1981 at Mary Boone's gallery was unfavourably received,[3][1] and Bleckner has expressed disappointment at the response.[4] His reputation was revived when a single work was included in an exhibition at the Nature Morte gallery in 1984.[1] This exhibition put him into a new appropriationist neo-geo context,[5] whereas in 1981 his abstract paintings were seen as being out of step with the expressionist figuration of artists such as Julian Schnabel and David Salle.[4]
Bleckner's first museum solo show was held at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1988.[1]
In 1995 a mid-career retrospective of his work was exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.[6] His works are held in the collections of the Tate[7] and the Guggenheim.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Guggenheim collection website
- ^ Shaw, Dan. "Bachelor of Arts", The New York Times, August 29, 1993. Accessed September 15, 2008. "'I always absolutely thought there was a difference between being a young artist and an important young artist,' said Mr. Bleckner, who grew up in Hewlett, L.I., graduated in 1971 from New York University and earned an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1973."
- ^ Jonathon Napack, The Man Who Wanted to be Loved, New York Magazine, Feb 20, 1995.
- ^ a b Ross Bleckner talks to Dan Cameron - '80s Then - Interview, ArtForum, March 2003.
- ^ David Rimanelli, Time capsules: 1980-1985 - Calendar, ArtForum, March 2003.
- ^ David Rimanelli, Ross Bleckner and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Frieze, May 1995.
- ^ tate.org.uk
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