139. R.H.
QUAYTMAN
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Chapter
12: iamb
2008 Silkscreen, gesso on wood 51 x 51 cm |
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Point de Gaze, Chapter 23, 2011
Silkscreen ink, gesso on
wood
82.2 x 82.2 cm) |
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Point de Gaze, Chapter 23 (Lygia Clark), 2011
Silkscreen ink, gesso on
wood
(50.8 x 82.2 cm) |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
Born as Rebecca Howe Quaytman in 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts
Nowadays:
Lives and works in New York
Studies:
2001
Rome
Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, Rome
1989
Institut
des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris
1984
Post-graduate
Program in Painting, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
1983
Bard
College (BA), Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1982
Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Themes and
style:
Her paintings
are usually on wood panels, using abstract and photographic elements in
site-specific "Chapters", now numbering twenty-five. Each chapter is
guided by architectural, historical and social characteristics of the original
site.
Techniques:
IS
developed in paintings
Exhibitions
In 2001, she was invited to participate in a show at the
Queens Museum of Art.
Beginning in 2008, and accelerating in 2010,
many contemporary art museums have acquired her paintings:
Whitney – 6 pieces
MoMA – 7 pieces
Guggenheim Museum - 3 pieces
SFMOMA – 4 pieces
Tate Modern – 7 pieces
See all at:
Representative
Galleries:
Saatchi
Gladstone
In
her own words:
“I’ve never wanted to
be anything else but an artist, though there was a brief period when I thought
about teaching the blind. When I was young, I loved to draw—I’d get lost in it.
I think that’s how most painters get their start. On weekends, I’d hang out
with my father in his studio, doing projects. We started a print collection,
and did bookbinding. We’d also take long walks on the Lower East Side during
which I became more aware of my Jewish side. Later, when I was going to high
school in Connecticut and trying to fit in—my stepfather David was teaching at
Yale—my father was afraid that I might turn into a WASP.”
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more Information: