Richard Dean Tuttle (born 12 July 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington DC. Shaped canvases are Paintings that depart from the normal flat rectangular configuration Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Rahway (ˈrɔweɪ is a city in southern Union County, New Jersey, United States. Postminimalism is a term utilized in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by or attempts to develop and go beyond the aesthetic of Minimalism. His art deals with issues of scale and the classic problems of line.
Tuttle studied at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and after moving to New York in 1963 he spent a semester at the Cooper Union and worked at the Betty Parsons Gallery. Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford Connecticut. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (commonly referred to simply as The Cooper Union or Cooper Union) is a privately-funded college in Betty Parsons (1900 - 1982 was an American artist and legendary art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. One year after taking a job as an assistant at Betty Parsons, she gave him his first show.
Tuttle's reputation as a master was secure in Europe from early on, though acceptance of his work in his home country was slower. His works on paper are considered seminal works in American art. Tuttle had a survey exhibition in 1975 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney" harbors one of the most important collections of 20th century American art The exhibit was controversial and the show's curator Marcia Tucker lost her job as a result, after a scathing review by Hilton Kramer. Marcia Tucker (April 11 1940 to October 17 2006 was the founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art from 1977 to 1999 a museum located in New York City dedicated Hilton Kramer (born 1928 Gloucester Massachusetts) is a US Art critic and Cultural commentator. [1] Kramer, then art critic for The New York Times wrote, referring to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's dictum "less is more", "in Mr. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (ˈlʊdvɪç miːs faːn dɛʀ ˈʀoːɐ born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies ( March 27, 1886 &ndash August 17, 1969 Tuttle's work, less is unmistakably less. . . One is tempted to say, art is concerned, less has never been as less than this. " Tuttle's work, however, is in the collection of the Whitney today.
Tuttle is often referred to as an "artist's artist" and, as such, his work has been influential to a generation of contemporary artists such as Kiki Smith, Jim Hodges, David Hammons, Michael Oman-Reagan, Tom Friedman and Jessica Stockholder. Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954, in Nuremberg, Germany) is an American artist classified as a Feminist artist a Jim Hodges (born 1957 in Spokane Washington) is a New York -based Artist. David Hammons (born 1943 is an African-American artist mostly known for his works in and around New York City during the 1970s and 1980s Michael Paul Oman-Reagan (born 1976) is an American Post-minimal Conceptual artist and Curator Tom Friedman may refer to Tom Friedman (artist, American sculptor Thomas Friedman, journalist and author See He was a very close friend of minimalist painter Agnes Martin until her death in 2004. Agnes Martin ( March 22, 1912 &ndash December 16, 2004) was a Canadian - American painter, often referred to as
In 2005, Tuttle had a major retrospective spanning his 40 year career at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( SFMOMA) is a major Modern art Museum and San Francisco Landmark. The exhibit traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art in November, 2005. The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney" harbors one of the most important collections of 20th century American art He is represented by Sperone Westwater in New York City and by Galerie Schmela in Dusseldorf and by Annemarie Verna Galerie in Zurich . He lives and works in New York City and New Mexico. He is married to the poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is a contemporary poet Winner of two American Book Awards her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New
He has been the recipient of many awards for his work including the 74th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Biennial Prize, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, New York, and the Aachen Art Prize, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Germany. The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier Fine art museums Skowhegan (skaʊˈhiɡn̨is a town in and County seat of Somerset County, Maine, in the United States. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe.
References
- ^ Julie Ault, Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985: A Cultural Politics Book for the Social Text Collective, University of Minnesota Press, 2002, p205. ISBN 0816637946
External links
- Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 3 (2005). The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the
- SFMOMA: The Art of Richard Tuttle
- Current exhibitions on Artfacts.Net
- Richard Tuttle represented by Sperone Westwater
- Living Latin, Dying English a compact "video-gram" between Tuttle and the American poet Charles Bernstein
- Close Listening Tuttle reading from selected pieces and in conversation with Charles Bernstein: this is a re-play of a radio program "Close Listening", from WPS1 Radio, NYC (recorded December 4, 2006)
- Artist's bio at Crown Point Press
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