Richard Artschwager

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Richard Artschwager

Richard Artschwager

Richard Artschwager Description

Richard Artschwager was born in 1923 in Washington D.C., and died in 2013 in Albany, New York. He studied chemistry, biology, and mathematics at Cornell University, followed by a period of study under Amedée Ozenfant, one of the pioneers of abstraction. In the early 1950s Artschwager became involved in cabinetmaking, producing simple pieces of furniture. After a ruinous workshop fire at the end of the decade, he began making sculpture using leftover industrial materials, then expanded into  painting, drawing, site-specific installation, and photo-based work. His first exhibition took place at the Art Directions Gallery, New York in 1959, followed by the first of many solo exhibitions with Leo Castelli in 1965. Artschwager’s work has been the subject of many important surveys, including a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1988; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Palacio de Valasquez, Madrid; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf); Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2003); and Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2003). His second major retrospective, “Richard Artschwager!” opened in October 2012 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

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