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| Bruce Nauman. My Last Name Exaggerated Fourteen Times Vertically. 1967. Neon tubing with clear-glass-tubing suspension frame. Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland. © 2018 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
Since the 1960s, Bruce Nauman's radical interdisciplinary approach has challenged conventions while producing new methodologies for creating art and meaning. His rigorous, ascetic engagement with the existential dichotomies of life/death, love/hate, pleasure/pain has embraced performance, video, holography, installation, sculpture, and drawing. From the attitudes and forms of his Post–Minimalist and Conceptual work to his most recent sound installations, persistent themes and ideas appear the use of the body as material; the relationship between image and language, art and viewer; and the generative interaction of positive and negative space.
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| Still from Bruce Nauman, Green Horses, 1988, video installation (color, 59:40 min) with two color video monitors, two DVD players, video projector, and chair, dimensions variable. Copyright 2018 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz. |
Bruce Nauman was born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He received his B.S. in 1964 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his M.F.A. in 1966 from the University of California, Davis. From 1966 to 1968, he taught at San Francisco Art Institute, California, and in 1970 he taught at University of California, Irvine. Nauman currently lives and works in Galisteo, New Mexico.
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| Bruce Nauman. Pay Attention. 1973. Lithograph, edition of 50; each 38 1/4 × 28 1/4″ (97.2 × 71.8 cm). Collection Robin Wright and Ian Reeves. © 2018 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Pay Attention, © 1973 Bruce Nauman and Gemini G.E.L. |
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| Bruce Nauman. Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body Taken at Ten-Inch Intervals. 1966. Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame, 70 × 9 × 6″ (177.8 × 22.9 × 15.2 cm). Philip Johnson Glass House Collection, National Trust for Historic Preservation. © 2018 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Andy Romer Photography, courtesy of the Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation |
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