John Baldessari
1931, National City, CA (VS) - 2020, Venice, CA (VS)
John Baldessari has been an innovative force in contemporary art redefining its parameters to include its role as a visual evocation of language, and leading the way in bringing photography to the forefront of contemporary art. Over five decades of conceptual practice he has embraced painting, photography, film, video, books, prints, objects and installation.
His use of appropriation, alteration, and montage to disrupt a narrative or to construct an entirely new meaning out of recombined fragments has been utilized in disparate ways in different bodies of works spanning his career, from early text paintings, to conceptual works and found pictures; from erased identity works of the 1980s and 90s to more recent series in the past five years in which he investigates new issues of painting.
(Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery)
John Baldessari – Commissioned Painting- A Painting by William Bowne, 1969
John Baldessari – Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), 1973
John Baldessari – Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), 1973 (detail)
John Baldessari – I Am Making Art, 1971
John Baldessari – Christmas (With Double Boy on Crutches), 1991
Baldessari’s artwork has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions and in over 1000 group exhibitions across the world. Recent solo exhibitions include Sprüth Magers Gallery, Los Angeles; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; Marian Goodman Gallery, London; Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia) a traveling retrospective that went to Tate Modern, London; MACBA, Barcelona; LACMA, Los Angeles; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
John Baldessari is represented by the following galleries;
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Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris / London
Sprüth Magers Gallery, Berlin / London / Los Angeles
You can also see more of John Baldessari’s work in his own website.
John Baldessari – Raised Eyebrows:Furrowed Foreheads exhibition view at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York in 2008
John Baldessari – Raised Eyebrows:Furrowed Foreheads exhibition view at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York in 2008
John Baldessari – exhibition view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm in 2020
John Baldessari – Palm tree: Seascape, 2010
