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Birth
1941 (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Death
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New Mexico
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abstraction, graffiti, multimedia sculpture
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Bruce Nauman was born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. From 1960
until 1964 he attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, first as
a mathematics major, then studying art under Italo Scanga. He
received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California
at Davis in 1966. He worked in fiberglass sculpture and making
films and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1968 he
received a grant from the National Exdowment of the Arts in make
videotapes. He taught sculpture at the University of California
at Irvine; he continues to make sculptures and works extensively in
films.
He married artist Susan Rothenberg; they settled on a
ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico. He became a premier conceptual artist,
combining industrial materials with Dadaist irony and a sense that an
artist does not always fully control his art. His art is never
tame or polite. Sometimes he works with neon, sometimes with
video installations, and occasionally he paints.
Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Sources include:
Drawing Now by Bernice Rose, Museum Of Modern Art
From the internet, AskART.com and Artnet.com
"The Funny Side of the Abyss" by Francine Prose in ARTnews, December 1999
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  With an ability to render form in a wide variety of materials including
sculpture, videotape, installations, drawings, prints and performances,
Bruce Nauman has had enormous impact on succeeding generations of
American artists. His themes primarily have to do with language and
miscommunication and the shrinking lines between what is private and
what is public.
He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and studied
at the University of Wisconsin with Italo Scanga and then at the
University of California at Davis with Robert Arneson and William
Wiley. He settled on a ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico with his artist
wife, Susan Rothenberg.
From there, he became a premier
conceptual artist, combining industrial materials with Dadaist irony
and a sense that an artist does not always fully control his art. He
transforms ideas through non-artistic mediums such as commercial signs
into humorous works of art.
In May, 1999, ARTNews magazine
editors featured him as one of the top twenty-five most influential
artists in the western world and credited him with making us realize
"that disturbing and complex ideas are often best communicated in
unorthodox and improbable media."
Source:
May, 1999, "ARTNews"
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