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.
  This video features California artists: drawer and painter Deanne Belinoff, sculptor and poet Sana Krusoe, wood relief carver and painter Palema Holmes, and New York-based video artist Shirley Clark. The Artists: Part 1 was...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: art history, documentation, film or videomaking, interview, painting, portrait, sculpture, visual art |
This video profiles the work and insight of California artists: sculptor, painter, and installation artist Laddie John Dill and painter and sculptor Clark Walding. It also includes a mini-documentary on Tony Delap’s The Big Wave, a...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, interview, painting, sculpture, visual art |
Part 3 profiles three California women artists: sculptor and lint and installation artist Slater Baron, mixed media installation artist Beverly Nadius, and book artist Sue Ann Robinson.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, feminism, interview, visual art |
This tape compiles three profiles of performance artists: A Creative Synthesis: George Coates Performance Works (10:00), The Performance World of Rachel Rosenthal (16:00), and Paul Dresher Ensemble (08:00).
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, interview, performance |
Part of the Long Beach Museum of Art’s Institute for Art and Urban Resources' Collectors of the Seventies series, this video focuses on the Betty Asher’s acquisitions. "I started collecting in 1939. I didn’t really start collecting per...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: art collectors, interview |
Contemporary American composer and performance artist Robert Ashley has been a pioneer in the development of large-scale, collaborative performance works and new uses of language in operas and recordings. His landmark project, Perfect Lives...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, music, performance |
Julie Ault is an artist, curator, and founding member of the artist collective Group Material, which has organized exhibitions on themes such as the U.S.’s involvement in Central America, AIDS, education, and mass consumerism. Her exhibitions...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art collective, art criticism, interview |
Luis Cruz Azaceta’s paintings and mixed media works use the recurring theme of the displaced individual. Marked by his own exile from Cuba—he was born there in 1942 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1960, in the wake of Castro’s take-over—the artist...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, latino/chicano, mixed media, painting |
Feminist artist Lynda Benglis is known for her sculptures, video performances, paintings, and photography. Her work in the 1970s was controversial, delving into issues of gender roles...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, performance |
