Blythe beans
Blythe Bohnen (* 1940 in Evanston , Illinois ) is an American painter and photographer .
Life
She studied at Smith College , Boston University, and Hunter College in New York, and made a Master of Fine Arts in 1972 . She was a founding member of the AIR gallery . At the beginning of her career she painted. Her very gestural painting was replaced by photography when she began to photograph her movements in 1974 and to produce series of self-portraits . She produced gelatin silver prints and worked with exposure times between 3 and 4 seconds.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1970 Whitney Museum of American Art
- 1977 Documenta 6 in Kassel
- 2011 The Fleeting Glimpse: Collection of Modern Contemporary Photography at the Virginia Museum, Richmond
- 2013 "Feminist Art Then And Now" Katherine E. Nash Gallery Minneapolis
Web links
- Asheville Art Museum: Blythe Beans , accessed March 14, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meredith Fisher on Blythe Bohnen International Center for Photography , accessed March 14, 2013 (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Beans, Blythe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Illinois |