George Woodman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For".

George Edgar Woodman (April 27, 1932 – March 23, 2017) was an American ceramicist, painter, and photographer.[1][2][3]

Biography

Woodman went to Harvard University and married Betty Woodman (née Elizabeth Abrahams) in 1953.[4][5]

After earning a master's degree in painting at the University of New Mexico, he taught painting and art criticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder until 1996.[3][4] The Woodmans moved to New York in 1980 and had a second home in Italy, where they spent their summers.[4][6][7]

The Woodmans' son, Charles, was born in 1955 and became Associate Professor of Electronic Art at the University of Cincinnati.[8][9]

Their daughter was photographer Francesca Woodman; she was born in 1958 and died by suicide in 1981. Woodman selected some of his daughter's journal entries for publication in the book Francesca Woodman edited by Chris Townsend (Phaidon, 2006).[10][11]

Death

George Woodman died in his home in New York on March 23, 2017, aged 84.[12]

Ceramics

Until the early 1970s, George Woodman painted the ceramic work of Betty Woodman.[4][6] His own ceramic art includes a 1984 tile mural at Delavan/Canisius University station on the Buffalo Metro Rail[13] a 1991 tile mural Ode to the West Wind in the Temple Buell Theater in Denver, Colorado[4][14][15][16] and a 2004 tile mural Path Games at the Detroit People Mover's Renaissance Center Station.[17][18]

Path Games was a replacement for Dreamers and Voyagers Come to Detroit, a similar tile mural also created by Woodman in 1987 for the original Renaissance Center Station, which was demolished in 2002 to allow removal of the concrete berms in front of the building.[19]

Painting

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Woodman's artistic output consisted largely of colorful oil paintings on canvas.[3][20] His earliest paintings in the 1950s to the early 1960s were landscapes.[3][21]

In the early 1960s, he painted abstract works "with heavy, painterly brush strokes," but by the mid-1960s "the paint was applied thinly and evenly" in his abstracts.[3] In the 1970s, as a mentor of the Colorado Criss-Cross artists' cooperative, Woodman was associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement.[3][5][15][22][23][24] His paintings have been exhibited in at least two solo shows: "Sensuality in a World of Reason" in 1998[3][15] and "George Woodman: Paintings 1960-2000” in 2007.[21][25]

Photography

Since the early 1980s, Woodman has concentrated on black-and-white photography.[2][3][20] The photographs in a 1991 New York exhibition were described as having an "antique, romantic air", with a "reliance on images from art history."[1] In 1998, the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy, displayed 78 of Woodman's "highly constructed" photographs that were "based on its own collection."[2]

The 1998 exhibition "Sensuality in a World of Reason" included multiple-exposure photographs with overlapping human figures, buildings, and sculptures.[3][15] A 2002 exhibition in Chennai, India, which was entitled "Truths and Fictions," included Woodman's photographs of photographs.[26][27][28] His large-format, black-and-white, still life camera obscura photographs were exhibited in 2004; they involved techniques such as collage-like arrangements, long exposures with movement of objects, and combinations of positive and negative images.[22]

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. ↑ a b Hagen, Charles. Art in review, The New York Times, December 27, 1991; accessed 2007-08-19.
  2. ↑ a b c Budney, Jen. George Woodman at Palazzo Pitti. Art in America, February 1998. Accessed 2007-08-19.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Paglia, Michael. Patterns that connect, Denver Westword, April 23, 1998.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Chandler, Mary Voelz. Met exhibit honors artist's feats of clay: Betty Woodman taught in Boulder Template:Webarchive, Rocky Mountain News, April 22, 2006; accessed 2007-08-19.
  5. ↑ a b Duncan, Michael. Woodman's decorative impulse: shown in a recent retrospective at the Metropolitan, Betty Woodman's spirited ceramic works embrace theatricality and modernist fragmentation. Art in America, November 2006. Accessed 2007-08-19.
  6. ↑ a b Schjeldahl, Peter. Decoration myths: Betty Woodman’s ceramics. New Yorker, May 15, 2006. Accessed 2007-08-19.
  7. ↑ Perreault, John. Betty Woodman: The Joys of Negative Space (review), Plexus.org, January 1997; accessed 2007-08-19.
  8. ↑ Video works Charles Woodman, photographs Francesca Woodman, May 6 - June 16, 2005. Template:Webarchive Notes for an exhibition at Shirley-Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Accessed 2007-08-19.
  9. ↑ Charles Woodman page at University of Cincinnati; accessed 2007-08-19.
  10. ↑ Publisher's page for book Francesca Woodman. Template:Webarchive Phaidon.com, Accessed 2007-08-19.
  11. ↑ Fredrickson, Lori. Book review: Francesca Woodman Template:Webarchive Popular Photography, January 2007; accessed 2007-08-19.
  12. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  13. ↑ George Woodman Selected Public Commissions, The Woodman Family Foundation
  14. ↑ Rosen, Steven. Buell Theatre artist guilty of 'padding.' Denver Post, October 27, 1991.
  15. ↑ a b c d Chandler, Mary Voelz. Work that fits a timeless pattern. Rocky Mountain News, March 15, 1998.
  16. ↑ Denver Office of Cultural Affairs - Public art guide to downtown Denver Template:Webarchive; accessed 2007-08-19.
  17. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  18. ↑ Final People Mover link opens Monday Template:Webarchive, WDIV Detroit, November 20, 2004; accessed 2007-08-19.
  19. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Detroit Free Press, November 17, 2004; accessed January 3, 2018.
  20. ↑ a b McGraw, Hesse. Obscura lessons: Woodman's large-scale photographs teach plenty old, but not much new. Kansas City Star, May 7, 2004.
  21. ↑ a b Krainak, Michael Joe. 'Visual Legacy': Bemis Center retrospect celebrates 40 years of Woodman paintings Template:Webarchive Omaha City Weekly, March 7, 2007; accessed August 19, 2007.
  22. ↑ a b Princenthal, Nancy. George Woodman: the camera obscura photographs, March 26 - May 8, 2004 Template:Webarchive Notes for an exhibition at Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri; accessed 2007-08-19.
  23. ↑ Miles, Christopher. Tracking patterns: a recent septet of pattern and decoration exhibitions at Bergamot Station prompts a reconsideration of that once burgeoning but lately little discussed movement, Art in America, February 2004; accessed 2007-08-19.
  24. ↑ Glueck, Grace. Betty Woodman, turning the humble vase into high art, New York Times, April 28, 2006; accessed 2007-08-19 (registration required).
  25. ↑ Gallery Talk: George Woodman, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, March 3, 2007; accessed 2007-08-19.
  26. ↑ Sathish, Swapna. Play of images, The Hindu, January 31, 2002; accessed 2007-08-19.
  27. ↑ Natarajan, Shankar. Aura of photography. The Hindu, May 12, 2002; accessed 2007-08-19.
  28. ↑ Raman, Aparna. "Schizophreniart", The Hindu, November 23, 2003; accessed 2007-08-19.

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

External links

Template:Authority control

Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=George_Woodman&oldid=5309358"