Joan Logue

Joan Logue (* 1942 in McKeesport , Pennsylvania ) is an American pioneer of video art .

life and work

Logue was born in McKeesport in 1942 and grew up in Southern California . She started making videos shortly after the first Portapak video cameras hit the American market. In 1970 she graduated from Mount St. Mary's University (Los Angeles) with a master's degree in painting and photography. She worked with the American Film Institute , taught at the California Institute of the Arts from 1972 to 1974 and at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 1977 . Then Joan Logue moved to New York City . Joan Logue was visiting professor at the École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy (1991), Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg (1992), the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux (1993) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996) .

Since 1971, Joan Logue has recorded hundreds of portraits on video, which she presented as video installations “video portrait galleries”. In 1979, Logue began taking a second type of portrait called “30 Second Portraits”, also known as “ Commercials for Artists”. Her best-known videos are those of artists , writers , poets , philosophers and composers . Those portrayed include: Nam June Paik , Jasper Johns , David Hockney , Willem de Kooning , Laurie Anderson , Robert Rauschenberg , Meredith Monk , Roy Lichtenstein , Ellsworth Kelly , John Cage , Richard Diebenkorn , Joan Mitchell , Spalding Gray , Vija Celmins , Judy Chicago , Anna Halprin , Lucinda Childs , Julia Kristeva , Jacques Derrida , Maryanne Amacher , Steve Reich , Pierre Boulez , Rosa Parks , and César Chávez , to name a few.

Exhibitions (selection)

Joan Logue has exhibited internationally: Museum of Modern Art , New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington, DC; International Center of Photography , New York; Center Georges Pompidou , Paris; Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam; Videonale , Bonn; documenta 8 , Kassel; Second Bank of the United States (Portrait Gallery), Philadelphia.

Awards

• 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1989: National Endowment for the Arts
• 1983, 1985, 1991, 1992: Ministry of Culture and Communication
• 1984: CAPP Street Project
• 1985, 1988: Massachusetts Council on the Arts
• 1982, 1989: York State Council on the Arts
• 1978, 1982: New York Cultural Assistance Program (CAP)
• 1986: German Academic Exchange Service
• 1999: The Pew Charitable Trusts
• 1998: Guggenheim grant

Web links

• Joan Logue in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 318; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
2. ↑ BAM / PFA, Constance Lewallen Joan Logue / MATRIX 81 , accessed on April 14, 2015 (English).
3. ↑ Joan Logue Video Portraits , accessed April 14, 2015.
4. ↑ Electronic arts intermix Joan Logue ( Memento of the original from April 15, 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 April 14, 2015 
5. ↑ Joan Logue Video Portraits , accessed April 14, 2015.