Deborah kass biography
- Deborah Kass (born 1952) is an American artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history, and the construction of self.
- Deborah Kass (American, b.
- Deborah Kass is an American artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history, and the construction of self.
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Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After
Deborah Kass:Before and Happily Ever After is a major mid-career retrospective of paintings, photographs and sculpture by New York artist Deborah Kass.
The exhibition, featuring approximately 75 works, showcases Kass’ achievements over the course of her three-decade career. After a successful decade of showing landscapes and abstract paintings during the 1980s, Kass startled the art world by appropriating the work of Andy Warhol. Beginning in 1992, Kass presented this grouping of Warhol’s well-known celebrity paintings for a contingent of her own heroes, among them Gertrude Stein, Sandy Koufax, and Barbra Streisand (the subject of The Jewish Jackie series). Kass’ Warholesque paintings of Streisand in Yeshiva drag from the film Yentl, titled My Elvis, are an example of the artist’s genre-and gender-bending sensibility. This retrospective features Kass’ early landscapes, as well as her geometric abstractions. The Art History Paintings series presents playful quips on iconic artworks and pop culture. The exhibition con
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Deborah Kass
American painter
Deborah Kass (born 1952[1]) is an American artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history, and the construction of self. Deborah Kass works in mixed media, and is most recognized for her paintings, prints, photography, sculptures and neon lighting installations. Kass's early work mimics and reworks signature styles of iconic male artists of the 20th century including Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Ed Ruscha.[2] Kass's technique of appropriation is a critical commentary on the intersection of social power relations, identity politics, and the historically dominant position of male artists in the art world.[3]
Early life
Deborah Kass was born in 1952 in San Antonio, Texas.[1] Her grandparents were from Belarus and Ukraine, first generation Jewish immigrants to New York. Kass's parents were from the Bronx and Queens, New York. Her father did two years in the U.S. Air Force on base in San Antonio until the family returned to the suburbs of Long Island, New Yo
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DEBORAH KASS
Born 1952 San Antonio, TX
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Board of Directors Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Board Member
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Doctor Of Arts, Honoris Causa
EDUCATION
1974 BFA, Painting, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1972 Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, New York, NY
1968-70 Art Students League, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Painting and Sculpture” Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
“S, M, L” Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
“OY/YO” Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (permanent)
2019 “OY/YO,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (permanent)
“OY/YO,” Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University
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