Lee Lozano

Lee Lonzano (born November 5, 1930 in Newark as Leonore Knaster , † October 2, 1999 in Dallas ) was an American painter, concept and performance artist. After she turned away from the art world in 1971, her work was only rediscovered by a wider art audience after her death.

Life

Lozano was born as Leonore Knaster. She studied philosophy and natural sciences at the University of Chicago from 1948 , and graduated there in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts . In 1956 she married the architect Adrian Lozano, whose name she took on. She studied fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago , where she received a Master of Fine Arts in 1960 . The following year she moved to New York City , where she quickly made contact with the art scene.

In her work, she dealt with topics such as cultural identity, especially the construction of femininity, as well as with the art business itself. As a painter, she worked both figuratively (but also with text passages) and conceptually-abstractly, in her most famous work, the eleven large-format paintings from the Wave Series (1967–1970).

Lozano had success in the art world: she participated in group shows at Dick Bellamy's Green Gallery in 1964 and 1965 , her first solo show at the Bianchini Gallery in 1966, followed by group shows at the Dwan Gallery ( Language III ) and at Paula Cooper ( Number 7 ) in 1969 and in 1970 a solo exhibition at the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art when the artist was 40 years old. Nevertheless, like conceptual art in general, it was radically opposed to the practices of the art world. She also questioned her own position in the art scene just as radically. One of her best known works is the conceptual artwork General Strike Piece :

"GENERALLY BUT DETERMINEDLY AVOID BEING PRESENT AT OFFICIAL OR" UPTOWN "FUNCTIONS OR GATHERINGS RELATED TO THE" ART WORLD "IN ORDER TO PURSUE INVESTIGATIONS OF TOTAL PERSONAL AND PUBLIC REVOLUTION. EXHIBIT IN PUBLIC ONLY PIECES WHICH FURTHER SHARING OF IDEAS & INFORMATION RELATED TO TOTAL PERSONAL & PUBLIC REVOLUTION. "

- Lee Lozano : General Strike Piece (February 8, 1969)

It is widely believed that she moved to Dallas around 1972 after staying and exhibiting in London (1971). According to her cousin, however, she did not appear in Texas until 1982 . Her connection to the New York art world broke off in the early 1970s, her action BOYCOTT WOMEN (1971) was a final step. Lozano died of cancer in Dallas in 1999 at the age of 68. After a solo exhibition at PS1 in 2004, Lozano was rediscovered in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2007: Lee Lozano - No Title, 1969 . Hauser & Wirth Gallery , London.
• 2006: Lee Lozano - WIN FIRST DONT LAST / WIN LAST DONT CARE . Kunsthalle Basel , then also shown in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
• 2004: Lee Lozano, Drawn from Life: 1961-1971 . PS1 Contemporary Art Center , Long Island.
• 1998: Matrix 135 . Wadsworth Atheneum , Hartford, Connecticut
• 1970: Whitney Museum of American Art , New York.
• 1969: Galerie Ricke , Cologne.
• 1966: The New Gallery, Bennington College , Bennington VT
• 1966: Bianchini Gallery, New York.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

• 2020: I'm not a nice girl! Eleanor Antin , Lee Lozano, Adrian Piper , Mierle Laderman Ukeles , K21 in the Ständehaus , Düsseldorf
• 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel.
• 2007: WACK! - Art and the Feminist Revolution. Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles.
• 2007: What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection . Museum of Modern Art , New York.
• 2007: STUFF - International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron . Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
• 2007: Capital, Part One - Blue Chips & Masterpieces . Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt / Main.
• 2006: Seek the Extremes ... - Dorothy Iannone / Lee Lozano . Kunsthalle Vienna .
• 2006: Into me / Out of me . PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, then also shown in the Kunst-Werken Berlin.
• 2004: short careers . Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation , Vienna.
• 2004: Collection (or How I Spent a Year) . PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island.
• 2000: Afterimage - Drawing Through Process . Contemporary Arts Museum Houston , Texas.

literature

• Lee Lozano: Notebooks 1967-1970 . Primary Information, 2010
• Todd Alden and Adam Szymczyk (Editors): Lee Lozano; Win first dont last, win last dont care - catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Basel and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2006. ISBN 3-7965-2243-2 .
• Sabine Folie (Ed.): Seek the Extremes ... - Dorothy Iannone / Lee Lozano . Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Wien. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006. ISBN 3-938821-53-1 .
• Hans-Jürgen Hafner: Portrait: Lee Lozano . In “spike Art Quarterly”, No. 02/2004.
• Bruce Hainley: On 'E' In: Frieze Magazine , No. 102, Oct. 2006, pp. 242-247.
• James Kalm: Brooklyn Dispatches: Resurrection of a Bad-Ass Girl, Part 1 . In: The Brooklyn Rail , November 2008.
• James Kalm: Brooklyn Dispatches: Resurrection of a Bad-Ass Girl, Part 2 . In: The Brooklyn Rail , March 2009.
• Helen Molesworth: Tune in, Turn on, Drop out: The Rejection of Lee Lozano . In: “Art Journal”, Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 64–71. Winter 2002.
• John Perreault: Lee Lozano at PS 1 , John Perrault's art diary blog for Arts Journal , Artopia , March 21, 2004; (English)
• David Reed: Making Waves: David Reed on the Legacy of Artist Lee Lozano . Interview . In: Artforum , October 2001, pp. 120-128.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lee Lozano in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Lee Lozano  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Lee Lozano in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Materials by and about Lee Lozano in the documenta archive
• Lee Lozano on kunstaspekte.de
• The artistic estate of Lee Lozano at Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
• "The Estate of Lee Lozano" , New York

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Translation: Avoid being 'occasions or receptions present, which with the art world' in general and determined at official or upscale have to do, and doing the complete personal and public revolution ahead instead investigations. Only publicly display works that encourage the exchange of ideas & information on the full personal & public revolution.
2. ^ Roberta Smith : Lee Lozano, 68, Conceptual Artist Who Boycotted Women for Years . In: New York Times, Obituaries, October 18, 1999. Available online (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
3. ↑ Lee Lozano: No Title, 1969 . Hauser & Wirth Gallery, London. March 30th - May 5th 2007. Available online  ( 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. (Accessed April 7, 2008)  
4. ↑ Lee Lozano: WIN FIRST DONT LAST, WIN LAST DONT CARE . June 15 - August 27, 2006 in the Kunsthalle Basel. Catalog published in 2006 by Schwabe Verlag, Basel. Available online ( memento of the original dated June 11, 2008 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 April 7, 2008) 
5. ↑ Lee Lozano: WIN FIRST DONT LAST, WIN LAST DONT CARE . October 7, 2006 - January 7, 2007 in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Available online ( Memento of the original from May 19, 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. (Accessed April 7, 2008) 
6. ↑ Lee Lozano: Drawn from Life: 1961-1971 . January 22nd - September 6th, 2004 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island. Available online (accessed April 7, 2008)
7. ^ Documenta 12, Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. About the works by Lee Lozano shown on the official documenta blog: Available online ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 April 7, 2008) 
8. ↑ Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution . The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The MIT Press, Cambridge 2007.
9. ↑ WACK! - Art and the Feminist Revolution. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. March 4 - July 16, 2007. The exhibition was later shown at PS1. Available online ( memento of the original dated November 1, 2012 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 April 8, 2008) 
10. ↑ What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection . July 7 - September 17, 2007, In: MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Available online ( memento of the original from April 14, 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. (Accessed April 7, 2008) 
11. ↑ STUFF - International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron . May 12 - July 29, 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Available online ( memento of the original from May 17, 2008 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 April 7, 2008) 
12. ↑ Capital - a selection from the Rolf Ricke collection . April 21 - August 26, 2007. MMK, Frankfurt am Main. Available online ( memento of the original from June 10, 2007 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 April 7, 2008) 
13. ↑ Dorothy Iannone and Lee Lozano: Seek the Extremes ... . Kunsthalle Wien, July 7th - October 15th, 2006. Available online ( Memento of the original from November 27th, 2006 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. (Accessed April 7, 2008) 
14. ^ Into me / Out of me . June 25 - September 25, 2006 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island. Available online (accessed April 7, 2008)
15. ^ Into me / Out of me . Curated by Klaus Biesenbach. KW Artworks Berlin, November 26, 2006 - March 4, 2007. Available online  ( 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. (Accessed April 7, 2008)  
16. ↑ Short careers . Curated by Susanne Neuburger and Hedwig Saxenhuber . May 20 to August 1, 2004, MuMok Factory, Vienna. With Stephen Kaltenbach, Christine Kozlov, Lee Lozano, Konrad Lueg, Karel Miller, Jan Mlcoch, Hilka Nordhausen, OHO, Verena Pfisterer, Charlotte Posenenske, Petr Štembera, Goran Trbuljak. Catalog published by Koenig 2004, ISBN 3-88375-855-8
17. ^ Afterimage: Drawing Through Process . Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, May 13 - July 16, 2000. Shown artists: William Anastasi, Mel Bochner, Agnes Denes, Nancy Grossman, Robert Grosvenor, Marcia Hafif, Eva Hesse, Nancy Holt , Barry LaVa, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Gordan Matta-Clark, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Overby, Yvonne Rainer, Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Saret, Joel Shapiro, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart , Richard Tuttle and Jack Whitten. Available online ( Memento of the original from July 4, 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. (Accessed April 7, 2008)