Douglas Huebler

Douglas Huebler ( born October 27, 1924 in Ann Arbor, † July 12, 1997 in Truro ) was an American conceptual artist.

Life and work

Huebler studied at the University of Michigan, the " Cleveland School of Art " in Ohio and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He often used photographs he added with descriptive texts in his works. His works often deal with the time and their effects on the objects. One of his better known works, Duration Piece # 31 Boston from 1974, shows the black -and-white photograph of a naked woman who looks friendly and open into the camera and covered himself with a towel. In the accompanying text explains Huebler that this photograph was made with an exposure time of 1/4 second during the New Year 1973/1974, with 1 /8 second exposure took place in 1973 and the last half of exposure fell in the year 1974.

He taught at the California Institute of the Arts where she taught Mike Kelley, Christopher Williams and others. In 1972 he participated in the documenta 5 in Kassel, in 1977 he repeated his participation at Documenta 6

Exhibitions and Collections

In addition to many group exhibitions solo exhibitions various galleries were realized in New York and at the Camden Arts Centre in London.

Works by Douglas Huebler are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, represented in the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts and at the Tate Gallery in London.