Lee Lozano

Lee Lonzano ( born November 5, 1930 in Newark, † October 2, 1999 in Dallas ) was an American painter, conceptual and performance artist. After they had turned away in 1971 by the art world, her work was only rediscovered after her death from a wider art audience.

Life

Lozano was born as Leonore Knaster. She studied from 1948 Philosophy and Natural Sciences at the University of Chicago, and graduated there in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts. She married in 1956 the architect Adrian Lozano, whose name she took. She studied fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, where in 1960 the Master of Fine Arts received. The following year she moved to New York City, where she found quite fast connection to the art scene.

She busied herself in her work with issues such as cultural identity, in particular the construction of femininity, as well as themselves with the art world She worked as a painter, both figuratively ( but even with text passages), as well as conceptual and abstract, in her most famous work, the eleven large-scale paintings of the Wave Series ( 1967-1970 ).

Lozano had success in the art world: they took in 1964 and 1965 in group exhibitions in Dick Bellamy's Green Gallery in part, her first solo exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery in 1966 followed in 1969 group exhibitions at the Dwan Gallery ( Language III) and at Paula Cooper ( Number 7 ) and 1970 a solo exhibition at the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art, when the artist was 40 years old. Nevertheless, it was how the concept art in general, radically opposed to the practices of the art world. She put beyond their own position in the art world as radically into question. One of her most famous works is the concept artwork General Strike Piece:

" BUT GENERALLY AVOID BEING PRESENT AT OFFICIAL determinedly OR" UPTOWN " FUNCTIONS OR GATHERINGS RELATED TO THE " ART WORLD "IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATIONS OF TOTAL STAFF Pursue AND PUBLIC REVOLUTION. EXHIBIT IN PUBLIC ONLY PIECES WHICH FURTHER SHARING OF IDEAS AND INFORMATION RELATED TO TOTAL PERSONAL & PUBLIC REVOLUTION. "

It is generally believed that she moved to Dallas in 1972, after a stay and an exhibition in London ( 1971). But according to her cousin, she appeared only in 1982 in Texas. Your connection to the New York art world fell from the early 1970s, their action BOYCOTT WOMEN (1971 ) was a last step. Lozano died in 1999 in Dallas at the age of 68 years to cancer. After a solo exhibition at PS1 in 2004 was the rediscovery Lozano in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2006: Lee Lozano - WIN FIRST DONT LAST / LAST WIN DONT CARE. Kunsthalle Basel, later also shown at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
  • 2004: Lee Lozano, Drawn from Life: 1961-1971 PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Iceland. .
  • 1998: Matrix 135 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
  • 1970: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 1969: Galerie Ricke, Cologne.
  • 1966: The New Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington VT
  • 1966 Bianchini Gallery, New York.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany.
  • 2007: WACK! - Art and the Feminist Revolution. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  • 2007: What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • 2007: STUFF - International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
  • 2007: The capital, first part - Blue Chips & Masterpieces. Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt / Main.
  • 2006: Seek the Extremes ... - Dorothy Iannone / Lee Lozano. Kunsthalle Wien.
  • 2006: Into me / Out of me. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Iceland, then also shown in the Kunst-Werke Berlin.
  • 2004: short careers. Museum of Modern Art Ludwig, Vienna. Stiftung
  • 2004: Collection ( or How I Spent a Year ). P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Iceland.
  • 2000: After Image - Drawing Through Process. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas.
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