Beryl Korot
Beryl Korot (born September 17, 1945 in New York City ) is an American painter and video artist .
life and work
Korot was born in New York in 1945. In 1976 she married Steve Reich and had a son. She lives in Vermont and New York City.
As a video artist, she exhibited installations made up of several CRT monitors in the early 1970s . Often several screens were put together to form one area. Her early work includes Dachau (1974) and Text and Commentary (1977).
In the 80s she focused on her painting based on an invented language. Weaving and video are related techniques for her and most of the paintings from this period are done on hand-woven linen or traditional linen as a painting base .
With the composer Steve Reich she has realized two video operas "The Cave" (1993) and "Three Tales" (2002), which were performed in Bonn (1997), Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin, Wuppertal (2016) and London were.
Exhibitions
- 2011 The Aldrich Contemporary Art
- 2009 Museum for New Art (Karlsruhe) , Karlsruhe
- 2006 Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid
- 2002 Whitney Museum of American Art , New York
- 1990 Carnegie Museum of Art , Pennsylvania
- 1977 Documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1976 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
Awards
- 2008 Anonymous Was A Woman award winner
- 1975, 1977 + 1979 National Endowment for the Arts
- 1973–74, 1978 New York State Council on the Arts
- 1972, 1975 1978 Creative Artists Public Service Fund
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Andy Warhol Foundation
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
Web links
- Carlene Meeker: Jewish women´s archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sacrum + profanum 2013 Accessed March 24, 2013
- ↑ via Beryl Korot from http://blog.art21.org Retrieved March 24, 2013
- ↑ By Chance, a video show . Retrieved March 24, 2013
- ↑ Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut Museum ( May 19, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 24, 2013
- ^ ZKM Museum for New Art Medium Religion Accessed on March 24, 2013
- ↑ Anonymous Was A Woman. Retrieved March 24, 2013
- ↑ Dartmouth News 2010 Composer Steve Reich and video artist Beryl Korot visit Dartmouth as Montgomery Fellows ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 24, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korot, Beryl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Korot, Beril |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |