GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Paul Sietsema was born in Los Angeles, California, where he lives and works. He received his MFA from University of California in 1999. Sietsema was a studio assistant to his teacher Charles Ray (2001.264.A-E). His meticulous renderings of reality and his poetic turning of a three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional filmic presentation represents an innovative response to and extension of his teacher's aesthetic; with his investigation of sculpture creating an enriching dialogue with minimalist and post-minimalist sculpture. Sietsema films his own drawings, intricately crafted sculpture and architectural models in a hazy evocation of subjective symbols and cultural memory. In one of his most striking sequences, Sietsema, perhaps to examine the residual power of modernism's once-dominant position, recreates the American critic Clement Greenberg's apartment and examples of modernist painting that one hung there.
Adapted from
- Charles Wylie, "From Object to Image: Sculpture, Installation, Media," in Fast forward: contemporary collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, eds. María de Corral and John R. Lane (Dallas Museum of Art ; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), 223-227.
- Suzanne Weaver, DMA unpublished material, 2002.
NOTES
HAB marked this draft on 11/6/18 because it appears mostly complete
DMA unpublished material = Suzanne Weaver, Acquisition Proposal, December, 2002. In Collections Records object file (2002.56.A-B).
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- Issue Magazine~Read a conversation between Raymond Pettibon and Paul Sietsema.
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General Description
Paul Sietsema was born in Los Angeles, California, where he lives and works. He received his MFA from University of California in 1999. Sietsema was a studio assistant to his teacher Charles Ray (2001.264.A-E). His meticulous renderings of reality and his poetic turning of a three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional filmic presentation represents an innovative response to and extension of his teacher's aesthetic; with his investigation of sculpture creating an enriching dialogue with minimalist and post-minimalist sculpture. Sietsema films his own drawings, intricately crafted sculpture and architectural models in a hazy evocation of subjective symbols and cultural memory. In one of his most striking sequences, Sietsema, perhaps to examine the residual power of modernism's once-dominant position, recreates the American critic Clement Greenberg's apartment and examples of modernist painting that one hung there.
Adapted from
- Charles Wylie, "From Object to Image: Sculpture, Installation, Media," in Fast forward: contemporary collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, eds. María de Corral and John R. Lane (Dallas Museum of Art ; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), 223-227.
- Suzanne Weaver, DMA unpublished material, 2002.
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Web Resources
- Issue Magazine~Read a conversation between Raymond Pettibon and Paul Sietsema.
Notes
HAB marked this draft on 11/6/18 because it appears mostly complete
DMA unpublished material = Suzanne Weaver, Acquisition Proposal, December, 2002. In Collections Records object file (2002.56.A-B).
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