Cecile Abish

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Cecile Abish (* 1930 in New York City as Cecile Gelb ) is an American installation and land art artist and photographer .

life and work

Abish studied in 1953 at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) Sculpture, among others, Mark Rothko . During her studies she lived with the Rothko family for six months and looked after the children. Abish participated in a number of exhibitions in the context of feminist and modern photographic art in the 1970s and 1980s . The artist's work consists of objects and interventions that she intends to use outdoors as well as installations for interiors. With her “marble works”, for example, she completely covered the floor of a gallery with marble slabs, giving the impression of a desert. She mounts her photo works, some of which are large-format, on thin metal plates that she fixes on the wall. A work by Abish was acquired from the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona at Tucson (AZ) in 1984 . The cover of Walther Abish's book How German Is It is based on an early photographic work by Cecile Abish.

She is married to the writer Walter Abish and lives and works in New York on the Lower East Side , Manhattan .

Exhibitions

  • 1999: 100 Drawings , PS1 Contemporary Art Center , New York
  • 1984: Land Marks: New Site Proposals by Twenty-Two Original Pioneers of Environmental Art , Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson (NY).
  • 1983: Comment: Cecile Abish, Dara Birnbaum, Victor Burgin, Vernon Fisher, Douglas Huebler, Barbara Kruger, Muntadas. , Group exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach (CA).
  • 1982: Cecile Abish: From the Marble Works, 1974-1979 , The Fine Arts Center Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook (NY).
  • 1980: Deconstruction, Reconstruction: The Transformation of Photographic Information into Metaphor , group exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York.
  • 1978: Firsthand / Cecile Abish , solo exhibition in the Fine Art Gallery of Wright State University , Dayton (OH).
  • 1973: Women Choose Women , a group exhibition by Women in the Arts in collaboration with Fairleigh Dickinson University , New York Cultural Center, New York.
  • 1971: Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists , Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield . (CT).

Awards (selection)

  • 1974: Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
  • 1977: Individual Artist's Fellowship, National 80 Endowment for the Arts

Publications

  • Walter Abish : 99: The New Meaning . Burning Deck Press, Providence (RI) 1990. 5 collage texts with 6 photographs by Cecile Abish. ISBN 0-930901-67-3 (cloth); ISBN 0-930901-66-5 (paper).
    • Walter Abish: 99: The new sense , from the American by Jürg Laederach, photo part by Cecile Abish and Renate von Mangoldt, Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin of the Berlin artist program of the DAAD, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-926178-15-9 .
  • Welfengarten 11/2001: Yearbook for Essayism: Walter Abish, Kokora M Gneba, Joseph Gomsu, Hauke ​​Hückstädt, Alain P Nganang, Wolfgang von Wangenheim, Cecile Abish (photographs), Revonnah, 2001, ISBN 3-934818-41-2
  • Heinz Thiel in: Natur - Kunst , Kunstforum International Vol. 48, 1982 (with four illustrations by Cecile Abish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Name at birth at NNDB
  2. ↑ The Abstract Expressionism Chronology
  3. ↑ James EB Breslin: Mark Rothko: A Biography, p. 291, University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 0-226-07406-4
  4. ↑ Grace Glueck: The Ladies Flex Their Brushes . In: New York Times, May 30, 1971. Article about Lucy Lippard , Abish and other feminist artists who held a famous 1971 demonstration on the (non-) participation of women in the Whitney Biennial in front of the Whitney .
  5. ↑ Cecile Abish: From the Marble Works, 1974–1979, exhibition catalog of The Fine Arts Center Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1982
  6. ↑ Larry McCaffery: Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s, p. 9, University of Illinois Press, 1987, ISBN 0-252-06011-3
  7. ↑ Photograph Collection, A  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 4. In: Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. The work with the format 32.9 × 45.8 cm is entitled Fogg series, # 4 and has the inventory number 84: 078: 001. (Retrieved October 25, 2008.)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.creativephotography.org  
  8. ↑ http://www.amazon.de/gp/reader/0141188065/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link Photo by Cecile Abish
  9. ↑ Land Marks , Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson (New York), September 16 - October 28, 1984. Catalog with the title of the exhibition was published in Annandale-on-Hudson (NY) 1984.
  10. ^ Comment , Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, May 29 - August 14, 1983. Curated by Constance Fitzsimons. Catalog with the title of the exhibition was published in Long Beach (CA) in 1983.
  11. ^ Deconstruction, Reconstruction , New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, July 12 - September 18, 1980. Curated by Shelley Rice. Catalog with the title of the exhibition was published in 1980.
  12. ^ Firsthand , Wright State University's Fine Art Gallery, Dayton (Ohio), March 1978. The catalog of the same name with an essay by Walter Abish was published in 1978 in Dayton.
  13. ↑ Women choose Women , a group exhibition by Women in the Arts ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , New York Cultural Center, New York City. January 12 - February 18, 1973. Catalog with the title of the exhibition was published in 1973. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anny.org
  14. ↑ Lucy Lippard exhibition catalog ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists , Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (CT). 18. April 13th - June 13th 1971  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.antiqbook.com
personal data
SURNAME Abish, Cecile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yellow, Cecile (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City