Gerald Ferguson
Gerald Ferguson (born January 29, 1937 in Cincinnati , Ohio , USA ; † October 8, 2009 in Halifax , Canada ) was an American-Canadian painter, conceptual artist and university teacher .
Life
Ferguson attended Wilmington College in Wilmington , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962 . In 1966 he graduated from Ohio University in Athens as a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). He worked at Wilmington College from 1965 to 1967 before teaching at the Kansas City Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri , in 1967 and 1968 . In 1968 he was offered a position at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax in Nova Scotia , Canada , where he worked until his retirement in 2006.
During the time at NSCAD, the college developed as an important center of conceptual art, as described by the American art historian Lucy Lippard in her work Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1977 from 1973.
From 1972 to 1973 Ferguson was visiting professor at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia .
Awards
- 1996: Molson Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts for 1995.
Works in public collections
- Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Art Gallery of Ontario , Toronto
- Vancouver Art Gallery , Vancouver , British Columbia
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg , Saskatchewan , Canada
- National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa , Canada
- Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Manhattan , New York City
- Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi , Łódź , Poland
literature
- with Susan Gibson Garvey: Gerald Ferguson: Frottage Works 1994 to 2006 and Ash Can Paintings 2006 , Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-0-7703-2749-1 .
- Lucy R. Lippard: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art from 1966 to 1972 , new edition: University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA 1997, ISBN 978-0-520-21013-4 .
- Diana Nemiroff: Gerald Ferguson: Recent Paintings , Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2002, ISBN 0-889152128 .
- Dennis Young: Gerald Ferguson, Paintings , Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 1977.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferguson, Gerald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Canadian painter, conceptual artist, and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 2009 |
| Place of death | Halifax , Nova Scotia |