The Whitney Museum of American Art. (Newswire).The Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). has announced the 113 artists and collaborative teams to be exhibited at the 2002 Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of recent American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1918. , It thereby promises to be the largest since 1982. The chief curator of the 2002 Biennial is Lawrence Rinder Lawrence R. Rinder is the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Previously, he was the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he organized exhibitions including “The , who developed the exhibition along with three of his Whitney colleagues. Rinder notes that the exhibition not only aims to cover artists exploring the freedoms provided by new technologies, but that it also looks to those expressing a resurgent re·sur·gent adj. 1. Experiencing or tending to bring about renewal or revival. 2. Sweeping or surging back again. Adj. 1. interest in traditional media. Artists to be included among those that work in photography, film, video or new media configurations of these categories, are: filmmaker Ken Jacobs; photographer Vera Lutter; sound and image artist Christian Marclay Christian Marclay (born 1955) is a visual artist and composer based in New York. Marclay is a former lecturer of video collage and sound at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducted a summer workshop. ; photographer Collier Schorr; photographer, filmmaker and video artist Lorna Simpson; and video artist Christian Jankowski. Aided by a partnership with the Public Art Fund, the Biennial will also move outdoors to Central Park and feature five major artist's projects covering sculptural a nd performance-related work. |
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