Contemporary Artists

Introduction

The following artists are representative of work currently being done in the United States and abroad. Each entry includes links to samples of their work, and suggested bibliographic references. These are not comprehensive guides.

For all artists be sure to check art reference books such as:

• The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes) R 703 DICTION
• Contemporary Artists (starting with most current volume) R 709.22 CONTEMP

To locate further information, please ask a reference librarian for assistance.

Artists currently included here:

Antoni, Janine Arneson, Robert Beuys, Joseph Bourgeois, Louise Burden, Chris Butterfield, Deborah Calle, Sophie Chia, Sandro Christo Coe, Sue Cohen, Harold Freud, Lucian Gehry, Frank Golub, Leon Hamilton, Ann Holzer, Jenny Horn, Rebecca Kiefer, Anselm

Koons, Jeff Laib, Wolfgang Lang, Gary Lucero, Michael Luna, James Nauman, Bruce Paik, Nam June Pfaff, Judy Rothenberg, Susan Rubens, Nancy Saar, Betye Salle, David Sherman, Cindy Smith, Jaune Quick-To-See Solberg, Ramona Wall, Jeff Viola, Bill Whitehorse, Emmy

If you are looking for information on artists not included here, or would like to suggest one to include, please let us know.

Janine Antoni

"Janine Antoni: Mother's Milk."
Art in America. September 2001, pp 125-129.

"Janin Antoni's Lick and Lather."
Sculpture. May 1994, pp 18-19.

"Interperformance: The Live Tableaux of Suzanne Lacy, Janine Antoni, and Marina Abramovic."
Art Journal. Winter 1997, pp 28-33.

"Janine Antoni at Sandara Gering." (Chocolate Gnaw)
Art in America. Oct. 1992, p 149.

American Visionaries. 709.7307 WHITNEY p. 31, 278

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980.709.04 MODERN Plates 348

Janine Antoni--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01EF5D%2DBBCF%2D11D4%2DA93500D0B7069B40

Janine Antoni
http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/boss/janine.html

Three Works--Janine Antoni
http://www.varoregistry.com/antoni/index.html

Swoon
http://www.camh.org/cam_exhandprograms/cam_archive/outbound/antoni.htm

The Art of Life
http://www.students.rhodes.edu/sw/11~6~96/a&e/moss.html

Robert Arneson

Arneson and the Object. Curated by Leo G. Mazow
730.92 ARNESON (on Reserve - Circulation Desk)

"Robert Arneson: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."
Sculpture. Oct 1997, pp 56-7.

"Robert Arneson: Frumkin/Adams Gallery."
Artforum International. Sept 1995, p 91-2.

"Black: late drawings of Robert Arneson."
American Ceramics. v 12 no1, 1995. p 32-7.

"Davis Funk."
Ceramics Monthly. Dec 1993, p 32-5.

Art in the Eighties. 709.048 LUCIE-S p. 100, illus. p. 100, 102

Edward Lucie-Smith . Artoday 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 390 (p. 354)

Robert Arneson
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/arneson_robert.html

Selections from the Ruttenberg Collection
http://www.vpa.niu.edu/museum/arneson.html

"Flat Face"
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/arneson.htm

Joseph Beuys

"On Beuys."
Art in America. April 1999, pp 115-117.

"German Shepard."
Art News. May 1999, p 128.

"Doppelaggregat."
Art in America. June 1999 pp 6-7.

Breakthroughs: Avant Garde Artists in Europe and America.pp. 101, 136, 148. 1950-1990 709.04 B74

Essential Joseph Beuys. 709.2 beuys borer

Joseph Beuys: the reader. 709.2 beuys

Joseph Beuys: actions, vitrines, environments. 709.2 beuys rosenth

Joseph Beuys--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F0E3%2DBBCF%2D11D4%2DA93500D0B7069B40

Entry from ArtCyclopedia.com
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/beuys_joseph.html

7000 Oaks
http://www.diacenter.org/ltproj/7000/

"Joseph Beuys: Past the Affable"
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/beuys.html#images

Essay, with links to images at the bottom of the page

Joseph Beuys Exhibition
http://www.dmcsoft.com/beuys/beuys.html

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois: turning myths inside out
Sculpture 20(1) Jan/Feb 2001, pp 16-23

Sacred and fatal: the art of Louise Bourgeois: North Carolina Museum of Art: exhibit
Sculpture 17(8) Oct 1998, pp 63-4

Untitled: cloth sculpture of two-headed hermaphroditic body
Flash Artno194 May/June 1997, p 14

Ventouse (Marble, glass and electric light, 1990)
Art in America 84, July 1996, p 7

Louise Bourgeois: Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris; exhibit
Sculpture 15 Feb 1996, pp 61-2

American Visionaries 709.7307 WHITNEY p. 57

Breakthroughs: Avant Garde Artists in Europe and America 1950-1990. 709.04 B74 pp. 99, 102, 106-108, 129.

Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work 730.944 BOURGEO HELFENS

Louise Bourgeois 709.24 bourgeo

Louise Bourgeois the Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine... DVD 1531 Location: Media Office - lower level of Library.

Mirror Images: women, surrealism and self-representation. 704.042 MIRROR Plate 10,11.

Walther (2 volumes). Art of the Twentieth Century. 709.04 ART OF V. 2 p. 605.

Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85. 704.042 M289 p.33-34.

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980. 709.04 MODERN Plates 157,364, 433, 440

Lucie-Smith, Edward. ArToday. 709.045 LUCIE-S plate 515

Louise Bourgeois--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F13E%2DBBCF%2D11D4%2DA93500D0B7069B40

Biography and "the puritan"
http://www.artgallery.sbc.edu/highlights/bourgeois.html

Entry from ArtCyclopedia.com
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bourgeois_louise.html

Drawings
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/bourgeois/

Extensive online exhibit, including a statement from the artist

"Observer"
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Bourgeois_L/SSII.html

Chris Burden

"Wrestling the dragon; Chris Burden."
Art News. Dec 1990, pp 124-9.

"Back at you."
Artforum International. Jan 2002, pp 106-9.

"Medusa's head (Mixed media, 1989-92)."
Sculpture. Dec 1999, p. 32.

"Untitled: model of a bridge."
Artforum International. Feb 1999, p 25.

"L.A: the dark side: LAX: Galerie Krinzinger."
Art in America. March 1993, pp 40-3.

Chris Burden (Book) 700.924 burden

Chris Burden /Cindy Sherman. Places with a past: new site-specific art at Charleston's Spoleto Festival 709.04 Boxes

Breakthroughs Avant Garde Artists in Europe and America 1950-1990. 709.04 B74 p. 192-197

Art of the Twentieth Century. 709.04 ART OF V.2 p. 601.

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980. 709.04 MODERN Plate 378 (p. 343)

Chris Burden
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/burden_chris.html

L.A.P.D. Uniform, 1993
http://www.mca.com.au/images/exhibitions/large/Chris_Burden.450.jpg

Deborah Butterfield

"Equestrian mysteries: Interview with Deborah Butterfield."
Art in America. June 1989, pp 154-7+.

"Sculpting horses."
Southwest Art. July 1997, pp 143-6.

"Vermillion: Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. Fall 1992, p 72-3.

"Advertisement: Horse configured from branch-like elements."
Art in America. Oct 1999, p 23.

"Untitled (#2110.10) (Cast and patinated bronze, 1999)."
Art in America. Apr 1999, p 34.

"Ikezuki."
Art in America. Oct 1994, p 30.

"Ferdinand (Steel, 1990)."
Art in America. v 78 Dec 1990. p. 21.

"Blue jacket."
Artforum International. Nov 1989, p 16.

Deborah Butterfield (Book) 730.92 gordon 2003

Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85. 704.042 M289 p. 107-108

Edward Lucie-Smith. Artoday. 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 341 (p. 314)

Deborah Butterfield
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/butterfield_deborah.html

Deborah Butterfield
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?aid=3413

Deborah Butterfield: Sculpture
http://www.gregkucera.com/butterfield.htm

"Derby Horse"
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Butterfield_D/SSI.html

Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle, m'as-tu vue (Book)
779.092 calle

Sophie Calle: Paula Cooper.
Flash Art May/June 2001, p 149.

Character study
Artforum International. Apr 2000, pp 126-31.

Sophie Calle and Paul Auster: watching the detectives.
Creative Camera. Oct/Nov 1998, pp 16-19.

Sophie Calle ; Augmented title: Personal Museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel
Flash Art. Oct 1996, p 105.

Sophie the spy ; Augmented title: Sophie Calle.
Art News. May 1993, pp 100-3.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; exhibit.
Artforum International. May 1993, p 101.

Dislocating the Modern ; Augmented title: Dislocations: Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Art in America 80 Jan 1992, p 107.

Family Plots: Sophia Calle's Les Tombes....
Arts Magazine. Feb.1991, pp 71-74.

Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif; exhibit.
Arts Magazine, Nov 1989, p 97.

Sophie Calle--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F1DB%2DBBCF%2D11D4%2DA93500D0B7069B40

Sophie Calle
http://www.varoregistry.com/calle/

"The Detachment"
http://www.dialnsa.edu/iat97/johannesburg/import/calle.html

"The Birthday Ceremony"
http://www.donaldyoung.com/calle/calle_1.html

Sandro Chia

"Advertisement: Blue and Red Abstract Figures."
Artforum International. September 200, p 85.

"65 Thompson Street Exhibit."
Art in America. Oct. 1994, pp139-140.

"Flying Dealers."
Art in America. March 1991, p 146.

Sandro Chia (Book) 759 chia 2000

Art of the Twentieth Century. 709.04 ART OF V. 1 p. 376-377

Edward Lucie-Smith. Artoday. 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 202 (p. 186, text p. 187)

Sandro Chia: Official Website
http://www.sandrochia.com

A very well done site from the artist himself; requires Flash plug-in, might be slow using dial-up connections.

"Story of All Stories," 1999
http://www.artseensoho.com/Art/SHAFRAZI/chia99/chia1.html

Sandro Chia: "Myths & Legends"
http://www.comune.firenze.it/soggetti/sat/chia/sandro_chia.htm

Good illustrations; text is in Italian

Christo

"Packaging the past: Wrapped Reichstag."
Art in America. Nov 1995, pp 86-9+.

"Over the river: project for the Arkansas River."
Art in America. Mar 2000. pp 6-7.

Per Hovdenakk ; [editor, German translation, Jörg Schellmann]. Christo, complete editions, 1964-1982 : catalogue raisonné and introduction 709.24 H82c

Christo. Christo: the Reichstag and urban projects (Book) 709.2074

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: on the way to The Gates, Central Park, New York (Book) 709.22 fineberg 2004

Christo, Complete editions, 1964-1982 (Book) 709.24 H82c

Christo. Islands [videorecording] Circulating 709.24 ISLANDS

Christo. Running fence [videorecording] MV10696 SFCC Media Office--Library use only

American Visionaries. 709.7307 WHITNEY p. 73

Art of the Twentieth Century 709.04 ART OF V. 1 p. 330, V. 2 519-520, 549-550

Edward Lucie-Smith. Artoday. 709.045 LUCIE-S Text p. 25-27; Plates 129, 130 p. 118

The art of CHRISTO and JEANNE-CLAUDE
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/

The artists' (very nicely done) personal page; available in English and German

Christo
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/christo.html

"Brilliant Careers: Christo," by Charles Taylor
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/04/11/christo/index.html

Lengthy article from Salon [online magazine] includes a portfolio of works; Flash plug-in needed

Sue Coe

"One man's Meat."
Print. Mar/Apr 1992, p 112+.

"War."
Print. Sept/Oct 1991, p. 64.

"Exhibit: Galerie St. Etienne, New York."
Artforum International. v 29 Summer 1991. p. 110-11.

"The Coldest cut: Sue Coe's Porkopolis."
Art in America. Jan 1990, p 126-9.

Bully! Master of the global merry go round (Book) 973.931 coe

Dead Meat (Book) 759.2 coe

Sheep of Fools (Book) 741.5 coe

American Visionaries 709.7307 WHITNEY p. 75

A Different War 704.9499 L644D p. 101, 103

Factory Farming.Com: Sue Coe Inside the Slaughter House
http://www.factoryfarming.com/suecoe/

Graphic Witness Print list
http://www.graphicwitness.org/coe/prntlist.htm

Harold Cohen

The First Articial Intelligence Coloring Book: Art & computers (Book) 760 cohen

"The Robot As Artist"
http://www.scinetphotos.com/aaron.html

There is much more on Cohen's work with "robotic art" at http://crca.ucsd.edu/~hcohen/

Resources on Harold Cohen and AARON
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~brosmait/aaron.html

"Who Is Harold Cohen Anyway?"
http://www.usask.ca/art/digital_culture/wiebe/cohen.html

Aaron the Artist--Harold Cohen
http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3284_cohen.html

Aaron: Art from the machine
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,43685,00.html

Lucian Freud

The Pearce family.
Artforum International. Apr 2000, p 59.

Lucian Freud at Acquavella.
Art in America. Feb 1997, pp 95-6.

Lucian Freud at the Dulwich Picture Gallery: London exhibit.
Art in America. Apr 1995, p 119.

John Craxton (Oil on canvas, 1946).
Architectural Digest. July 1994, p 128.

Flesh for phantasy.
Artforum International. Mar 1994. pp 54-9.

Large head.
Art in America. Dec 1993, p 5.

Lucian Freud (Book) 75932 freud feaver

Freud, Lucian. Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection. 759.2 FREUD Plate276

Lucie-Smith, Edward. ArToday.709.045 LUCIE-S Plate276

Art in the Eighties 709.048 LUCIE-S p. 30, illus. p. 33

Art of the Twentieth Century 709.04 ART OF V. 1 text p. 332, reproduction upper right p. 335

Lucien Freud
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F48C%2DBBCF%2D11D4%2DA93500D0B7069B40

Lucian Freud
http://www.navigo.com/wm/paint/auth/freud/

Images: Lucian Freud
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/F/freud.html

Entry from ArtCyclopedia.com
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/freud_lucian.html

"After Cezanne"
http://www.nga.gov.au/freud/

"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II"
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page892.asp

Frank Gehry

Venturi and Gehry: in the real world.
Art in America. Oct 2001, pp 128-35.

Applause and effect; Wrap session.
Artforum International. Summer 2001, pp 140-9.

Experience Music Project.
Architecture. Aug 2000, pp 80-91.

Frank Gehry.720.92 gehry miller

Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao727.7094 gehry burggen

Symphony: Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall729.29 symphony

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980.709.04 MODERN Plates 162, 163, 187, 341

Frank Gehry--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F4C2%2DBBCF%2D11D4%2DA93500D0B7069B40

Leon Golub

Art Against War.(Book) 704.9499 BRUCKNE p. 116-117

Dog (Book) 824 golub

Don't Tread on Me: Drawings 1947-2004 (Book) 759.13 golub

Leon Golub and Nancy Spero: War and Memory (Book) 709.04 MODERN Plates 162, 163, 187, 341

As Seen By Both Sides. 704.9499 AS SEEN p. 40-41

A Different War. 704.9499 L644D p.43, 46-47

American Visionaries 709.7307 WHITNEY p. 120

Art of the Twentieth Century. 709.04 ART OF V. 1 p. 334

The Decade Show 709.04 DECADE Plate XXVII

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980. 709.04 MODERN Plate 180 (p. 168)

Edward Lucie-Smith. Artoday. 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 219, p. 201

Leon Golub on the Web
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/golub_leon.html

Four Paintings (Univ. of Maine)
http://umma.umecah.maine.edu/more_golub.html

"White Squad V"
http://www.broadartfoundation.org/collection/golub.html

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