Willie Doherty (b. 1959)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Willie Doherty (Irish, b. 1959) studied at Ulster Polytechnic in Belfast. For three decades, his films and photographs have explored aspects of landscape, trauma, and political turmoil in his native city of Derry, Northern Ireland.
Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Dutch landscape painter and printmaker Johan Barthold Jongkind was born in Lattrop in 1819. He studied at The Hague under Romantic painter Andreas Schelfhout and in 1846 was given a grant to study in Paris with Eugène Isabey. While in Paris he also studied the figure at the studio of F.E.
Ashcan School
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Ashcan School was an early 20th century movement of urban-realist painters. The group was not representative of an institution, but were affiliated for the purpose of exhibitions.
Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Edouard Vuillard was born in 1868 at Cuiseaux, Saone-et-Loire. He was dissuaded from attending a military school by his friend Ker-Xavier Roussel. At Roussel's instigation, he began art studies at the École des Beaux Arts in 1886 when Jean-Léon Gérôme was the principle teacher.
Koki Tanaka (b. 1975)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Koki Tanaka was born in Tochigi, Japan in 1975, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated with an MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan in 2005 and has participated in residency programs at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005-2006) and Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Switzerland (2007). His work takes shape primarily as video and installation that explores the relationship between objects and actions.
Atsuko Tanaka (1932-2005)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in Osaka, Atsuko Tanaka attended both the Art Institute of Osaka Municipal Museum of Art and Kyoto Municipal College of Art, where she studied Western painting and worked in a primarily figurative manner.
Anri Sala (b. 1974)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Anri Sala creates richly layered videos, films, and photographs that explore memory, history, and identity within the continuous interplay of the personal and the public. Sala studied at the Academie Nationale des Arts, Tirania, Albania, the Ecole National Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, and the Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France. Born in Albania in 1974, he currently lives and works in Paris.
Bruce Nauman (b. 1941)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Bruce Nauman has consistently produced art that eliminates borders between art and life. In his process and conceptually-based art, he employs traditional materials such as plaster and wax, and nontraditional materials such as fiberglass and latex, neon, holography, and video.
Tatsuo Miyajima (b. 1957)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Tatsuo Miyajima was born in Tokyo in 1957 and received two degrees from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1984 and 1986. His sculpture deals with the metaphysics of light, numbers, electricity, and space.
Bruce Conner (1933-2008)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Bruce Conner was born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, and passed away in San Francisco in 2008. He attended the University of Nebraska where he studied painting.