Dave Muller.Growing up in suburban northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern in the '70s was a little like growing up with a blindfold blindfold worn by personification of justice. [Art: Hall, 183] See : Justice to high culture. But Pop gave me permission to engage the culture I grew up with, and that permission came at a crucial point in my development. My departure from Pop came through my subsequent engagement with Conceptual art conceptual art Any of various art forms in which the idea for a work of art is considered more important than the finished product. The theory was explored by Marcel Duchamp from c. 1910, but the term was coined in the late 1950s by Edward Kienholz. , which I interpreted as a license to go wherever I needed to get a piece done. Now I'm more drawn to artists who operated on the fringes of Pop: Vija Celmins Vija Celmins (b. October 25, 1938, Riga, Latvia) is an American artist. Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana. , Daan Van Golden. Ray Johnson, Alex Hay, Oyvind Fahlstrom, or Joe Brainard. A couple of years ago, a collector told me he thought I had no recognizable style. I wish I was faster with the comebacks, but about five minutes after he left, I realized that I do have a recognizable style: a style of thinking.--AS TOLD TO MATTHEW HIGGS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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