On Art and Artists
The majority of the On Art and Artists collection represents almost 40 years of producing and acquiring interviews with contemporary artists, architects, theorists, and critics. The collection features interviews made by the Video Data Bank and co-founders Lyn Blumenthal & Kate Horsfield, as well as by other individual producers and producing organizations such as Artists Television Network, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University of Colorado visiting artist program. In addition, the collection includes a number of titles relating to the artists' process, including experimental documentaries and profiles.
  During her graduate studies at Hunter College, Alice Aycock began to forge links between personal and more inclusive subject matter and form. In her quest for contemporary monuments, Aycock wrote her Master’s thesis on U.S. highway systems....
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: architecture, installation, interview, sculpture, visual art |
From his photo-text canvases in the 1960s to his video works in the 1970s to his installations in the 1980s, John Baldessari’s varied work has been seminal in the field of conceptual art...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, photography, visual art |
Jennifer Bartlett is a writer and painter who makes large paintings with enamels on fabricated panels. She uses an overall grid structure on which she repeats images in a variety of styles ranging from lyric abstraction to childlike...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews |
Joseph Beuys was born in Kleve, Germany in 1921. After serving as a volunteer in the German military, Beuys attended the Dusseldorf Academy of Art to study sculpture, where in 1959 he became a professor. Much of his artwork reflects his attempt...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, visual art |
Louise Bourgeois has utilized wood, metal, plaster, and bronze in creating her sculptures. Among the many themes in her work are the house (or lair) and the so-called “toi-et-moi” or “you and me.” Both of these subjects derive from a self-defined...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art history, interview, sculpture, visual art |
A major figure among underground filmmakers, Stan Brakhage’s career spanned more than 50 years and 300 films, making him the most prolific American filmmaker at the time of his death in 2003. His personal, independent films range in length from...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking |
Phyllis Bramson is a Chicago painter whose post-imagist style emphasizes content and the deeply personal. Bramson’s paintings are private scenarios that include figures (or performers) who carry out highly charged activities with strong...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, interview, painting |
Joan Brown was born in 1938 in San Francisco, CA. She attended the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and received her BFA in painting. Brown has long been recognized as one of the most important artists to...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
Roger Brown’s quirky, stylized paintings were influenced by such disparate sources as comic strips, hypnotic wallpaper patterns, medieval panel paintings, and early works of Magritte. His work is epitomized by a series of claustrophobic urban...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, interview, painting |
