Albers, KateOverview
Most widely held works by
Kate Albers
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
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3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is a multimedia artist born in Cuba, now living in the U.S. Her works have themes of exile, immigration, identity, separation/connection, women's issues, and Latin American family histories. Academically trained as a painter, her installations now include clay, glass, fabric, polaroid photography and video footage.
Robert Irwin
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2 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide Robert Irwin explains his philosophy of modern art as a piece of the history of modern thought. Phenomenology requires a direct personal involvement, and challenges the structure of museums. His merging of architecture and landscape, use of energy, light, and space are seen in various pieces of public art, including the monumental garden at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Emily Jacir
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide Emily Jacir is a Palestinian multi-media artist whose family is from Bethlehem and who grew up in Saudi Arabia, went to school in Rome, and received university degrees in America. She works with photography, paintings, sculpture, and text, and includes sound and video when that best supports her message. Her works focus on the Arab diaspora in the Middle East, and of individuals unable to return to their homes. In some paintings she has incorporated letters from family. She has created a memorial of a family refugee tent and invited Arabs in the US to embroider the names of their villages destroyed in the 1948 war. A series of Christmas cards include political messages showing Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the contemporary world.
Nina Katchadourian
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide Nina Katchadourian talks about her interest in nature and the focus of place in her art. She explores relationship and dialogue with animals, especially in her pieces "mended spiderwebs" and "animal crossdressing". Other works emphasize communication, such as car alarms based on bird songs, a popcorn machine that talks through morse code, and sound bites from the first moon landing.
Zineb Sedira
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2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Zineb Sedira was born in Paris of Algerian parents. She uses video and photography to explore making one's own identity. She talks about women as storytellers and bearers of history in Arabic cultures. Her work "Mother Tongue" has videos of her mother and daughter who communicate mostly with looks and touch. Design in mosaics, wallpaper, and fabric, is important in her work.
Barbara Takenaga
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2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Barbara Takenaga explains her series of "night paintings" as based on a childhood dream in which a small shape is waiting to be absorbed by a large cluster. Many of her works feature enlarging spheres with inward/outward radial symmetry. There are bright colors and a strong feeling of energetic movement. Other works and installations are two-dimensional and have narrative and objects telling a story of her Japanese family and heritage.
William Pope.L
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide William Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. One idea that continually intrigues Pope.L is the use of physical vulnerability to unmask the public face worn by African-American men.
Eddie Dominguez
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Eddie Dominguez talks about his years in Tucumcari, New Mexico, and feels all his work deals with nostalgia and memories. He embraces traditional crafts into the art scene with a specific point of view. Trained as a ceramic artists, his works feature collages in frames, window boxes, nicknack shelves, dinnerware sets, and domestic interiors as houses of art.
Mel Chin
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Mel Chin explains his philosophy of art as a relationship with the world we live in. He collaborates with scientists, technologists, television producers and urban planners, and does research of his own for his diversified works. His "Revival field" sculpted gardens with plants that can draw off heavy metal contamination from landfills is an example. He believes that art can create conversation that will help ideas survive and promote greater social and political awareness and responsibility.
Diego Romero
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Diego Romero, a Cochiti potter from New Mexico, talks of his search for self and identity in the use of traditional Mimbres motifs combined with pop art such as comic strip figures in his contemporary pottery.
Interview with] Kate Albers [Part 1/2
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2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
James Rouvelle
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 1 library worldwide James Rouvelle is an interdisciplinary artist who uses visual art, music, and sound. His work is experimental, using electronics, mechanics, computers, and robotics.
Jim Stone
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Jim Stone teaches photography and is exploring the potential of digital technology. In documentary images, he uses realistic detail for context to create an experience for the viewer. In more abstract works he uses satire and irony. An example is his "Historiostomy" series which parodies some of the classic photographic images.
Betsy Damon
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Betsy Damon, a conceptual humanist artist, talks about the central metaphor in her work: water. Since 1991 Betsy has been working on Living Water Gardens, the first of which was built in Chengdu, China.
Kim Abeles
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Kim Abeles' art has a social context, often illustrating environmental concerns or activism such as AIDS causes. She examines assumptions about historical "truth" through an autobiographical Encyclopedia Persona and a "World Book Encyclopedia" with charts, photos, maps, and illustrations. Combining theory, narrative and research with fabricated and found materials, her work emits emotive force and communicative power.
Walter McConnell
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Walter McConnell is primarily a ceramic artist, but points out that there are now no sanctioned materials, any material is art. Some of his newer work uses unfired wet clay and earth surrounded by glass, which suggests the cycle of life and decay.
Joanna Osburn-Bigfeather
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Peter Frank
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Peter Frank, a mixed media artist and contributor to the LA Weekly, defines intermedia art as practices that combine traditional artistic disciplines seamlessly to form new genres such as visual poetry, performance art, and artists' books. As technology develops, artists begin to work with the new media in different ways. Computers serve as replacement for the darkroom in photography, a monitor can serve as a canvas and live stage and be used as an editing tool. Poetry, writing, and all arts are evolving and technology will augment rather than replace traditional forms.
Charleen Touchette
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 1 library worldwide As an instructor at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, Charleen Touchette is actively involved with Native American society. Through her paintings, she investigates issues of healing, transformation, and her own genetic link to Native American culture. While her primary medium is painting, she has also written a book which deals with family, culture, and healing, and has written about Native American artists. She also writes as art critic and has served as curator of art exhibits.
Judy Moonelis
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Judy Moonelis describes her purpose and technique in sculpting the human figure. Her portraits may be more resemblance than actual likeness, but she strives for a life quality and may incorporate text of direct quotes from the model. Many pieces explore the subject of memory and the relationship of touch and hearing to memory. Some works are groupings of fragments of images rather than a complete body form. more
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African Americans Algeria Art Art, Modern Artists' books Art--Philosophy Asian American women artists Assemblage (Art) Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena,--1959- Ceramic sculpture, American Chin, Mel,--1951- Conceptual art Cuba Cuban American art Dreams Environment (Art) Germany Identity (Psychology) Indian art Indian pottery Indian women artists Installations (Art) Interviews Irwin, Robert,--1928- Israel Jacir, Emily,--1970- Katchadourian, Nina Middle East--Palestine Mixed media painting Multimedia (Art) Nature Painting, American Palestinian Arabs Performance art Photographers Photography Photography, Artistic Potters Public art Pueblo pottery Refugees, Arab Romero, Diego,--1964- Sedira, Zineb Social conflict Stereotypes (Social psychology) United States Video art Women artists Women photographers Women sculptors
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