For Immediate Release:
Barbara Kruger
Early Works
November 10, 2003 – December 20, 2003
Skarstedt Fine Art is pleased to present the exhibition Early Works by Barbara Kruger, from November 10, 2003 through December 20, 2003. The exhibition will consist of iconic works from the 1980s whose subject matter are business and money. The appropriated photographs coupled with provocative text have a very graphic nature, which has stylistic characteristics of dada collage and photomontage. With their highly charged visual language, the works address the cultural representations of power, identity and sexuality, and challenge the spectacles of stereotypes and cliches.
Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, NJ in 1945 and currently lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. She studied at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 1965 and Parsons School of Design, New York, 1966. Kruger has had extensive gallery and museum exhibitions since 1980. Kruger was included the 1983, 1985 and 1987 Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Documenta 7 in 1982 and Documenta 8 in1987, Kassel, West Germany. Ann Goldstein organized a retrospective for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 17 October 1999 – 13 October 2000 that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 13 July – 22 October 2000.
For further information, please contact +1 212 737 2060 or info@skarstedt.com
Barbara Kruger
Early Works
November 10, 2003 – December 20, 2003
Skarstedt Fine Art is pleased to present the exhibition Early Works by Barbara Kruger, from November 10, 2003 through December 20, 2003. The exhibition will consist of iconic works from the 1980s whose subject matter are business and money. The appropriated photographs coupled with provocative text have a very graphic nature, which has stylistic characteristics of dada collage and photomontage. With their highly charged visual language, the works address the cultural representations of power, identity and sexuality, and challenge the spectacles of stereotypes and cliches.
Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, NJ in 1945 and currently lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. She studied at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 1965 and Parsons School of Design, New York, 1966. Kruger has had extensive gallery and museum exhibitions since 1980. Kruger was included the 1983, 1985 and 1987 Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Documenta 7 in 1982 and Documenta 8 in1987, Kassel, West Germany. Ann Goldstein organized a retrospective for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 17 October 1999 – 13 October 2000 that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 13 July – 22 October 2000.
For further information, please contact +1 212 737 2060 or info@skarstedt.com