Painter and musician Alex Brown engaged the viewer with everyday images that emerge out of abstraction. The illusion is essential in his artwork; he took a completely recognizable object and challenged the viewer to see it anew. Often found photographs were used from postcards, travel brochures, and the Internet. Then a series of geometric transformations on that material was imposed …
James Turrell is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. Turrell is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, where he is turning a natural cinder volcanic crater into a massive naked-eye observatory. Since the …
Maya Lin studied at Yale University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1981 and a Masters of Architecture in 1986. She has also been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University, Harvard University, Williams College, and Smith College. She was among the youngest to have received such a distinction from Yale University, when she was given the award in 1987. In …
Born in Rochester, New York, Sarah Grant grew up in Ames, Iowa. Schooled for three years at Colorado State University, she went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drawing and intaglio printmaking in 1976, a Master of Arts degree in intaglio printmaking in 1978, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1980, all …
Tony Cragg is known for his broad use of materials including plastic, wood, stone, metal and industrial objects such as glass bottles. His expressions of form range from abstraction to figuration. Cragg trained as a biologist, and much of his work is based on organic, biomorphic shapes similar to cellular life seen under a microscope. Cragg has created many sculptures …