Isamu Noguchi

She was born in LA, her father was a Japenese poet. He has traveled back and forth from Japan to the US for years. He is considered a Japanese artist. He also studied in Paris. He wanted to learn a better understanding of the human figure. He then started to do Sculting and was an assistant for an artist. HE then moved to New York. HE then decided to try and sell his art work. HIs sculpting and brush paintings. He then has exhibitions and his work does not sell very much. But in his later years he became more and more successful.

James Turrell

He bagan his carrer in California in the 1960s. He started expierimenting with land and light. His work is in exhibitions around the world. He currently livesin Arizona. He recieved a pilot license at the age of 16 where he would deliver supplies to mine sites. This is where he began photographing. He recieved a degree in psychology and studied many many other things their as well. HE is best known for his work called Roden Crater, which is a volcanic rater and he is turning into an observetory. He is doing this for the viewing of Celestial Phenomena. 



HE has other works of art everywhere one of them is a white room with a blank canvas,  but in reality it is a hole in the wall not a canvas and it is to make you think it is a canvas but its not. It is at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Maurizio Cattelan

 

He is a Contemporary Italian artist. His work is vey interesting.. It is of things i wouldnt think of.. His work really makes a point and i Loved to look at his art online. He is known for his sculptures. HE started by making wooden furniture. He has work in exhibits and it is also published in New York.

Here is his art history.
Cattelan has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including in Manifesta 2, 1998, Luxembourg, Melbourne International Biennial 1999 "Signs of live", 2004 Whitney Biennal [1] in New York, “Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art” at the Royal Academy of Art [2] in London, “Partners” at Haus der Kunst [3] in Munich, “Home is Where the Heart Is” at Museum van Loon [4] in Amsterdam and the 2004 Seville International Biennale [5]. In 2004 Cattelan exhibited the controversial sculpture Untitled featuring 3 hanging kids for the Nicola Trussardi Foundation. He is represented by Emmanuel Perrotin [6] in Paris, Massimo de Carlo [7] in Milan and Marian Goodman Gallery in New York [8].

Ana Mendieta

"I offer these details as a way of condensing information and, more importantly, as a way of breaking art criticism's usual frame of objectivity. Too often, critics conceal their friendships and interrelationships with the artists they are writing about, and the reader is left thinking critics are divorced from social life. Transparency is the best policy. The fact is that I have had thousands of students, but Mendieta stands out. She took the new forms she was exposed to at the University of Iowa and made them her own." Ana Mendieta

She was moved from cuba at the age of 13. Her and her sister were put into several foster cares. She got her BA from theUniversity of Iowa. She also earned an MA in painting. Throughout the course of her career, she created work in Cuba, Mexico, Italy, and the United States of America

Marina Abramovic

Her art started with early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances.Abramović’s work will be included in The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery on the sixth floor of the Museum, revealing different modes of representing, documenting, and exhibiting her ephemeral, time-based, and media-based works. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue that includes an audio recording of the artist’s voice guiding the reader through the publication.

She is a performance artists. She is a very good one and trys to make a point within her performances. She does them in galleries and also does them for other artists like shell do an opening for another artist or shell have other artists at her exhibitions as well. Works in the exhibition are reperformed by: Maria José Arjona, Brittany Bailey, John Bonafede, Lydia Brawner, Rachel Brennecke (aka Bon Jane), Rebecca Brooks, Isabella Bruno, Alfredo Ferran Calle, Hsiao Chen, Rebecca Davis, Angela Freiberger, Kennis Hawkins, Michael Helland, Igor Josifov, Elana Katz, Cynthia Koppe, Heather Kravas, Gary Lai, Abigail Levine, Jacqueline Lounsbury, Isabelle Lumpkin, Elke Luyten, Alexander Lyle, Justine Lynch, Tom McCauley, Nick Morgan, Andrew Ondrejcak, Juri Onuki, Tony Orrico, Will Rawls, Matthew Rogers, George Emilio Sanchez, Ama Saru, Jill Sigman, Maria S. H. M., David Thomson, Layard Thompson, Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, Deborah Wing-Sproul, Yozmit, and Jeramy Zimmerman.

Allan Kaprow 1927-2006

He created something called the happenings which involove participants and an activities. These projects were called anti art. They  were there to see if one can see the abstract meaning in the art. In the late 1970s his art work began to go into museuma and shows. He also has wall size action paintings. “I am convinced that painting is a bore. So is music and literature. What doesn’t bore me is the total destruction of ideas that have any discipline. Instead of painting, move your arms; instead of music, make noise. I’m giving up painting and all the arts by doing everything and anything.” He just wanted to have artists break down barrior to figure out the line between art and non art.

Lauren Bon

Lauren Bon is an artist that is currently doing a project called farmlab in LA county. It is a garden in the middle of LA. It is between the building and it is beautiful. She has a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. She is the president of NOT A CORN FIELD. She has more land projects in U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs.

Here is a list of her solo exhibitions.
Solo Exhibitions
2005
Not A Cornfield – 32-acre living sculpture on plot of land between Chinatown and Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles
2003
Santa Monica Museum of Art, “Project Room: Hand Held Objects”
2001
Robert Berman Gallery, LA, CA, “Invisible and Free: Conjuring Worlds in the Mind’s Eye”
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA, “Invisible and Free, Conjuring Worlds in the Mind’s Eye”
2000
Museum of Modern Art, Belfast, “Releasing Fear Project”
1999
Hereford Salon, Notting Hill, London
1998
Sculpture, Hereford Salon, Noting Hill, London
1997
Freud Museum, London, "From a Distance"
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London "Built on Silence"
1996
Maidestone Library Gallery, Maidestone, Kent, "The Presence of Absence"
1995
Hereford Salon, London "Studies From My Pregnancy
1994
American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA. "Beckett Pieces"
1993
Hereford Salon, London, "Totems"
1991
Forest School, Winnersh, Berkshire, "Artist in Residency Exhibition"