{"id":3957,"date":"2013-02-09T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2013-02-13T15:06:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:06:58","slug":"richard-artschwager-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/09\/richard-artschwager-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Artschwager Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from GalleristNY<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Richard Artschwager, Whose Multifarious Work Defied Categorization, Dies at\u00a089<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0Andrew Russeth<\/a><\/p>\n

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Richard Artschwager, who crafted a protean and enigmatic body of work over the course of more than half a century, has died. He was 89. David Nolan Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, which both presented his work in New York, confirmed his death.<\/p>\n

Given Mr. Artschwager\u2019s thrillingly diverse output, it\u2019s difficult to pin his fame to any particular series. He made haunting grayscale paintings, often of domestic scenes and architecture, on textured Celotex and sculptures with Formica\u2014\u201cthe great ugly material,\u201d he said of the stuff<\/a>\u2014and wood that often resembled functional objects like pianos, chairs and tables, betraying the artist\u2019s work as a furniture maker in the 1950s. But he also made curious little pieces that he called \u201cblps,\u201d knockwurst-shaped works that he sometimes installed throughout the city. All the while, he handily sidestepped the reigning art movements of the day, indulging elements of Minimalism (in his sculptures) and Pop art (in his paintings) while playfully ignoring their strictures.<\/p>\n

Just a week ago, a major retrospective of his work\u2014titled \u201cRichard Artschwager!\u201d\u2014ended its run at the Whitney Museum. As part of the show, \u201cblps\u201d were installed throughout West Chelsea, where the Whitney will open its new museum in 2015. The show was his second career-spanning show at the museum, and will travel to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles later this year.<\/p>\n

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from GalleristNY Richard Artschwager, Whose Multifarious Work Defied Categorization, Dies at\u00a089 By\u00a0Andrew Russeth Richard Artschwager, who crafted a protean and enigmatic body of work over the course of more than half a century, has died. He was 89. David Nolan Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, which both presented his work in New York, confirmed his death. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}