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.
  Audrey Flack uses an airbrush to produce large photorealistic paintings and works from slides for her precision. She selects subjects with great personal significance that also represent fragments of contemporary American life. The three...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
In the 1960s and '70s, Hollis Frampton emerged as one of the most important experimental filmmakers, creating structuralist works such as Zorns Lemma (1970), Poetic Justice (1972), and Nostalgia (1973). In this...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, interview |
Buckminster Fuller was both a pioneer architect of the modern era and a global theorist. Fuller developed a system of geometry that he called “Energetic-Synergetic geometry,” the most famous example of which is the geodesic dome. His many designs...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: architecture, future/technology, interview |
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was a leading American poet who gained notoriety in the 1950s and ’60s through his association with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance. One of the most controversial poets of his time, his book...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Ron Gorchov paints on convex/concave saddle-shape canvases with recurring pairs of symmetrical, oar-like images. These unique frames have become the basis for a wide range of experimentation through the use of color, surface, form, and shape....
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Nancy Graves was a sculptor, painter, and filmmaker who used natural history as a reference for dealing with the relationships between time, space, and form. She lived in New York until her death in 1995. A historical interview...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Nancy Graves was a sculptor, painter, and filmmaker who used natural history as a reference for dealing with the relationships between time, space, and form. In this interview she discusses her transition from a static form (sculpture) to a...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Best known for her carved wooden heads wrapped in black leather affixed with zippers, glass eyes, enamel noses, spikes and straps, Nancy Grossman has a broader body of work accomplished in draftsmanship, assemblage, and relief sculpture in...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Best known for her carved wooden heads wrapped in black leather affixed with zippers, glass eyes, enamel noses, spikes and straps, Nancy Grossman has a broader body of work accomplished in draftsmanship, assemblage, and relief sculpture in...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
