Christine Kozlov: Difference between revisions
| Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
Kozlov was a key figure in the New York Conceptual art scene centering around the Lannis Gallery located at 315 E 12th St near 2nd Ave in New York's East Village. She participated in a number of exhibitions in the sixties and early 1970s before falling away. He work has seen a bit of revival since her death in 2005. |
Kozlov was a key figure in the New York Conceptual art scene centering around the Lannis Gallery located at 315 E 12th St near 2nd Ave in New York's East Village. She participated in a number of exhibitions in the sixties and early 1970s before falling away. He work has seen a bit of revival since her death in 2005. |
||
Her first pieces responded to questions of sound, memory and information. "Information, No Theory" consisted of a reel-to-reel recorder with an infinite tape loop and a microphone recording ambient noise from the room. It would record and then erase the traces of what was just recorded. It was recently restaged http://vimeo.com/80166473 |
Her first pieces responded to questions of sound, memory and information. "Information, No Theory" consisted of a reel-to-reel recorder with an infinite tape loop and a microphone recording ambient noise from the room. It would record and then erase the traces of what was just recorded. It was recently restaged [here | http://vimeo.com/80166473] |
||
She and [[Joseph Kosuth]] started the Museum of Normal Art out of the Lannis Gallery. For a brief moment it featured many of the artists associated with Conceptualism |
She and [[Joseph Kosuth]] started the Museum of Normal Art out of the Lannis Gallery. For a brief moment it featured many of the artists associated with Conceptualism |
||
| Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
She was a member of the [[Art and Language]] Group starting in 1971 |
She was a member of the [[Art and Language]] Group starting in 1971 |
||
"Kozlov was a member of Provisional Art and Language, worked in 1974 on the Corrected Slogans (Art and Language and the Red Crayola LP), on Zoran Popovic’s A Struggle in New York in 1976 and on the Music-Language video in the same year. What back then was perceived as egalitarian in the joint, collective ambitions of the group seems today to be to the disadvantage of the women, whose share in the work barely received critical notice. For example, to take just one instance, the three women involved in A Struggle in New York, Paula Ramsden, Kathryn Bigelow and Christine Kozlov, are given only a marginal mention in Charles Harrison’s Essays on Art and Language." |
"Kozlov was a member of Provisional Art and Language, worked in 1974 on the Corrected Slogans (Art and Language and the Red Crayola LP), on Zoran Popovic’s A Struggle in New York in 1976 and on the Music-Language video in the same year. What back then was perceived as egalitarian in the joint, collective ambitions of the group seems today to be to the disadvantage of the women, whose share in the work barely received critical notice. For example, to take just one instance, the three women involved in A Struggle in New York, Paula Ramsden, Kathryn Bigelow and Christine Kozlov, are given only a marginal mention in Charles Harrison’s Essays on Art and Language." <ref>http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=1768&lang=en </ref> |
||
==Exhibitions== |
==Exhibitions== |
||
Revision as of 21:36, 24 May 2014
 | This article, Christine Kozlov, has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
Christine Kozlov | |
|---|---|
| Born | Christine Kozlov 1945 |
| Died | 2005 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | School of Visual Arts, New York City |
| Known for | Conceptual art |
Christine Kozlov (born New York, NY, 1945-died London, United Kingdom, 2005 ), was an American conceptual artist.
career
She attended the School of Visual Arts in NYC until 1967. She met Joseph Kosuth when they were both students there.
Work
Kozlov was a key figure in the New York Conceptual art scene centering around the Lannis Gallery located at 315 E 12th St near 2nd Ave in New York's East Village. She participated in a number of exhibitions in the sixties and early 1970s before falling away. He work has seen a bit of revival since her death in 2005.
Her first pieces responded to questions of sound, memory and information. "Information, No Theory" consisted of a reel-to-reel recorder with an infinite tape loop and a microphone recording ambient noise from the room. It would record and then erase the traces of what was just recorded. It was recently restaged [here | http://vimeo.com/80166473]
She and Joseph Kosuth started the Museum of Normal Art out of the Lannis Gallery. For a brief moment it featured many of the artists associated with Conceptualism
She was a member of the Art and Language Group starting in 1971
"Kozlov was a member of Provisional Art and Language, worked in 1974 on the Corrected Slogans (Art and Language and the Red Crayola LP), on Zoran Popovic’s A Struggle in New York in 1976 and on the Music-Language video in the same year. What back then was perceived as egalitarian in the joint, collective ambitions of the group seems today to be to the disadvantage of the women, whose share in the work barely received critical notice. For example, to take just one instance, the three women involved in A Struggle in New York, Paula Ramsden, Kathryn Bigelow and Christine Kozlov, are given only a marginal mention in Charles Harrison’s Essays on Art and Language." [1]
Exhibitions
In the sixties, Christine Kozlov regularly took part in group exhibitions
Non-Anthropomorphic Art by Four Young Artists 1967
Also in In 1967 she and Joseph Kosuth founded the Museum of Normal Art, New York.
She was the only woman participant in 'Fifteen People Present Their Favorite Book', a show mounted at Lannis Gallery, New York, in 1967, curated by Joseph Kosuth who assembled fellow artists Robert Morris, Ad Reinhardt, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Carl Andre, Robert Ryman, among others.
She was a participant in Lucy Lippard's Numbers" Shows 557,087« and »955,000« and also her Twenty-Six Contemporary Artists.
In 1970 Information at the Museum of Modern Art curated by Kennison McShine.
One Month March 1969 Seth Siegelaub 1969 557,087 Seattle 1969 995,000 Vancouver 1970 Conceptual Art Conceptual Aspects The New York Cultural Center 1970
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s Queens Museum of Art 1999
Information Museum of Modern Art, New York 1970
Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists [Lucy Lippard] The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art 1971
Arte de Sistemas Museo De Arte Moderno / CAYC - Centro de Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires 1971
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into The Mainstream 1970-85 Cincinatti Museum of Art 1993
Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1995
Conception, Conceptual Documents 1960-1990 Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, U.K. 2001
Short Careers Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna 2004
Book Mentions
Changing: Essays in Art Criticism [Lucy Lippard] E. P. Dutton & Co. 1971
Conceptual Art Dutton 1972
Conceptual Art Phaidon 1998
Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology MIT Press 1999
From the Center: feminist essays on women's art Dutton 1976
Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change [Lucy Lippard] E.P. Dutton 1984
Idea Art: A Critical Anthology Dutton 1973
New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality Thames and Hudson 2001
Rewriting Conceptual Art Reaktion Books [Critical Views], London 1999
Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object.... Praeger 1973
The Everyday [Documents of Contemporary Art] MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery 2008
The Fox # 3 Art and Language 1976
References and notes
- Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, MIT Press, 1999, pxl. ISBN 0-262-51117-7
- http://www.leftmatrix.com/kozlovlist.html
- Susanne Neuburger »… with their own intrinsic logic« obituary for Christine Kozlov
- Peter Eleey "Art on Call: Christine Kozlov, Information: No Theory" [1]
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
| Other | |
