Frank Gillette
Frank Gillette (* 1941 in Jersey City New Jersey ) is an American video artist.
life and work
Frank Gillette studied painting at the Pratt Institute , New York, from 1959 to 1962 . He had seminars with Marshall McLuhan and in 1968 he began to take pictures in the streets of New York with a borrowed Portapak camera. In 1969 he was the founder and member of the Raindance Corporation (with Louis Jaffe, Marco Vassi, Judi Vassi, Judi Bosches, Michael Shamberg ), which later published the video magazine Radical Software in collaboration with Beryl Korot , John Reilly and others .
In 1968 Gilette got to know Ira Schneider and realized with him the video installation “Wipe Cycle” consisting of nine monitors . In 1969 "Wipe Cycle" was exhibited in the Howard Wise Gallery in New York as one of the first closed-circuit works.
“In the exhibition“ TV as a Creative Medium ”the installation was set up opposite the elevator. Each visitor first faced his or her own image, but the screens also showed two video tapes and a television program. This installation, which made the visitor part of the information, was switched in a complicated manner: the images moved from one monitor to the other in four cycles and were delayed by eight or sixteen seconds, with a gray light pulse (›wipe‹ [ English for aperture, red.]) Counterclockwise wiped out all images. "
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
- Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington DC
- Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
- Long Beach Museum of Art, California
- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- Whitney Museum of American Art , New York
Group exhibitions
- Project '74 - Aspects of international art at the beginning of the 1970s Kunsthalle Köln , Cologne
- 1977 The “Maui” tapes documenta 6 , Kassel
- Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- Museum of Modern Art , New York
- Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco
- New Berlin Art Association , Berlin
Awards
Frank Gillette has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation , prizes from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome from 1984 to 1985 .
literature
- Between paradigms, The mood and its purpose (Social change series) by Frank Gillette, Gordon and Breach, 1973 ISBN 978-0-67715-0-604
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 2: Photography, film and video; Kassel, page 342, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- ↑ Radical Software A Brief History of RainDance by Davidson Gigliotti accessed on January 25, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Medienkunstnetz Gillette, Frank; Schneider, Ira, “Wipe Cycle,” accessed January 25, 2015.
- ↑ Electronic arts intermix The Maui Cycle accessed on January 25, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Electronic arts intermix Frank Gillette ( Memento of the original from January 28, 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. accessed on January 25, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gillette, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jersey City , United States |