Ross Bleckner
Ross Bleckner (born May 12, 1949 in New York City ) is an American painter and printmaker .
life and work
Bleckner grew up in Hewlett , Long Island . From 1971 to 1973 he studied with Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close at New York University and at the California Institute of the Arts , Valencia, with a Masters degree. There he befriended Peter Salle . In 1975 the Mary Boone Gallery showed a first exhibition of his work. With his large-format "stripe pictures" he took up subjects of Op Art in the 1980s . The geometrical rigor of the motifs is broken up by blurring of the lines and horizontal stripes of color, which leads to flickering of the image.
The artist lives and works in New York and Sagaponack ( Hamptons ).
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1975: Whitney Biennial (also 1987 and 1989)
- 1988: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Biennale of Sydney
- 1989: Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 1995: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- 1997: Bawag Collection, Vienna
- 2018: W&K - Wienerroither & Kohlbacher
- 2019/20: New Museum Nuremberg
Works (selection)
- The Arrangement of Things , 1982–85, oil on canvas, 244 × 412 cm ( Museum of Fine Arts , Boston )
literature
- Karl Ruhrberg u. a .: Art of the 20th Century , Taschen, 2000, ISBN 3-8228-5907-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Ross Bleckner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works on the artist's website
- Biography at Guggenheim Collection
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Ruhrberg u. a .: Art of the 20th Century , Taschen, 2000, p. 394
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bleckner, Ross |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , USA |