Gary Kuehn

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Gary Kuehn in his studio with Mattress Piece , 1969

Gary Kuehn (* 1939 in Plainfield , New Jersey ) is an American graphic artist and sculptor .

life and work

Gary Kuehn was born into a working class family in 1939. In the 1950s and 1960s, Kuehn was a steel worker and roofer . He received his bachelor's degree from Drew University in 1962 and graduated with a master's degree from Rutgers University in 1964 . Kuehn was a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick (New Jersey) .

Kuehn's work cannot be clearly assigned to an art movement; it is often brought closer to process art and minimalism . Kuehn was the first artist to be invited to Kassel by gallery owner Rolf Ricke in 1967 and supplied with materials to create works on site. Thus he was involved in the creation of the producer gallery type.

"In the final analysis it's just a question of sex and geometry."

- Gary Kuehn

Exhibitions (selection)

In 1966 Kuehn took part in the exhibition Eccentric Abstraction (curator Lucy Lippard ), in 1969 in When Attitude Becomes Form (curator Harald Szeemann ) and in 1977 in documenta 6 (curator Manfred Schneckenburger ). His work has recently been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art , the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art , the Museum Object-Free Art , Otterndorf , the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (from the Ricke collection ), and the Fondazione Prada in Venice.

Awards (selection)

  • 1992: Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award

literature

  • Gary Kuehn, Five Decades , text by Dorothea Zwirner (German, English), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-77573-6-459 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 3: hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel, page 64, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  2. ↑ Gary Kuehn CV Gary Kuehn accessed on January 11, 2015 (English)
  3. ^ Trinity University Renowned Sculptor to Reflect on 40-Year Career ( Memento from January 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Alfred Nemeczek: “I want to show that art is actually very simple” . Rolf Ricke in conversation with Alfred Nemeczek. In: Marianne Stockebrand (Ed.): Rolf Ricke . Texts by artists, critics, collectors, friends and colleagues written for Rolf Ricke on the occasion of his 25th anniversary in the gallery. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-88375-133-4  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 11-36 .
  5. ^ Udo Kittelmann, Friedemann Malsch, Roland Wäspe: Foreword . In: Christiane Meyer-Stoll (Ed.): Rolf Ricke Collection, Rolf Ricke Collection. A document of the times . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2035-9 , p. 6-7 .
  6. ↑ Gary Kuehn Biography Gary Kuehn accessed on January 11, 2015 (English)
  7. ↑ Galerie Michael Haas ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2013 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 11, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galeriemichaelhaas.de
  8. ↑ Past Award Winners + Presenters ( Memento of the original from February 1, 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 11, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artomi.org
personal data
SURNAME Kuehn, Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American printmaker and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Plainfield , New Jersey