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John Baldessari, artist
American, 1931 -
To Insert: Person and Ladder (red) / Hose / Smoke; Flowers and Plates (Blue Hope), 1991
Color aquatint and photogravure printed on Somerset White paper
70.6 x 48.7 cm (image); 93.8 x 68.7 cm (sheet)
Crown Point Press Archive, gift of Crown Point Press 1993.51.179

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publisher, Crown Point Press, San Francisco~printer, Osterburg, Lothar

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Artist Biography: Known as a conceptual artist, Baldessari's works are concerned with the interplay between verbal and visual ideas. His work from the 1960's has been categorized as Los Angeles pop art, though his word paintings are based more on Duchampian conceptual art than mass media-related imagery conventionally associated with pop art. In the early 1970's he began using photographs sequentially to construct narrative storyboards. In the 1980's he used cropped movie stills.~RESIDENCE: Santa Monica, California~EDUCATION:~1957 MA, 1953 BA, San Diego State College~Also studied at Otis Art Institute, Chouinard Art Institute (both in Los Angeles), UCLA, University of California at Berkeley ~TEACHING POSITIONS:~1953-1971~San Diego Fine Arts School; San Diego city schools; San Diego State College; Southwestern College at Chula Vista, California; University of California at San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; Hunter College.~HONORS AND AWARDS include:~1973-1975 National Endowment for the Arts~ASSOCIATION WITH MAJOR PRINT WORKSHOPS:~-Gemini G.E.L.~-Lithography Workshop of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design~-Crown Point Press~-Cirrus Editions, Los Angleles~ONE-PERSON EXHBITIONS include:~1990-1997~-Sonnabend Gallery, New York (February 1997)~1980-1989~-Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, France~-Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York~-Contempoary Arts Museum, Houston~-Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland~-Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York and Paris (1973-1984)~1970-1979~-Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles~-The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut~-Artists Space, New York~-Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston~-Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands~-Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax~1960-1969~-Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California~-Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles~SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS include:~1990-1997~-Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (June-September, 1997), FAMSF (October 1997-January 1998)~1980-1989~-Pier and Ocean, Hayward Gallery, London~-American Photography in the 70's, The Art Institute of Chicago~-National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum~-Automobile and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles~-Paris Biennial~-Carnegie International~-4th Biennial, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia~-Whitney Biennial (1977, 1979, 1983, 1985)~1970-1979~-Circuit, etc., Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York~-Five-Man Show, Contempoary Arts Museum, Houston~-Venice Biennale~-Contemporanea, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome~-Painting and Schulpture in California, San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA)~-Twelve Man Show, Kuntsmuseum Basel, Switzerland~-Festival d'Automne, Musee Galliera, Paris~1960-1969~-Annuals, San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA)~-Pop Art, Hayward Gallery, London~-Space, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California~-Annuals, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York~~~Reference: Catalogue: Karin Breuer, Ruth E. Fine, Steven A. Nash, Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art (The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, University of California Press, Berkeley 1997). Exhibitions organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.~Dictonary of Contempoary American Artists, fifth edition, Paul Cummings, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988.~Dictonary of Contempoary American Artists, fifth edition, Paul Cummings, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988.~Dictonary of Contempoary American Artists, fifth edition, Paul Cummings, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988.~~Davis, Bruce, Made in L.A. The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles: Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995. ~Various online sources.~~

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