RH Quaytman

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RH Quaytman (* 1961 in Boston , Massachusetts , actually Rebecca Howe Quaytman ) is a painter and installation artist .

life and work

RH Quaytman is the daughter of the writer Susan Howe and the abstract painter Harvey Quaytman . The family moved to SoHo in 1963 . From the age of four, her mother lived with the painter David von Schlegell , whom she later married. The author Mark von Schlegell is her half-brother. She traces her artistic roots back to her father and stepfather. In 1995 she married the filmmaker Jeff Preiss .

Quaytman studied until 1983 ( BA ) at Bard College . She then studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and at the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques (with Daniel Buren and Pontus Hultén ) in Paris until 1984 . In the mid-1990s she worked as an assistant to Dan Graham .

In 2001 Quaytman began to lay out all of her paintings according to a certain system. She calls the resulting series chapters . She often paints these series on modular wooden panels. These are mostly presented on shelves and function as chapters in a running book.

Quaytman exhibits nationally and internationally. Mention should be made of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Art Institute of Chicago , the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, as well as at the Biennale di Venezia in 2011 and at documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens in 2017 .

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gladstone gallery RH Quaytman biography , accessed on July 13, 2019. (English)
  2. ↑ Frieze Past Present , accessed on July 13, 2019. (English)
  3. ↑ Guggenheim RH Quaytman , accessed July 13, 2019. (English)
  4. ↑ Art in America RH Quaytman , accessed July 13, 2019. (English)
  5. ↑ artnet RH Quaytman , accessed July 13, 2019. (English)
  6. ↑ documenta 14, daybook RH Quaytman , accessed on July 13, 2019. (English)
personal data
SURNAME Quaytman, RH
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quaytman, Rebecca Howe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts