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Lita Albuquerque is an American installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She is on the core faculty of the Fine Art Graduate Program at Art Center College of Design.〔http://18thstreet.org/residence-program/local-artists-in-residence/lita-albuquerque〕 ==Life== She was born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Tunisia, North Africa and Paris, France. At the age of eleven she settled with her family in the U.S. She graduated with a BFA from University of California, Los Angeles, and studied at the Otis College of Art and Design, from 1971 to 1972.〔http://artweek.la/issue/june-20-2011/article/lita-albuquerque-emergence〕 In the 1970s, Albuquerque emerged on the California art scene as part of the Light and Space movement〔Butterfield, Jan The Art of Light and Space〕 and won acclaim for her epic and poetic ephemeral pigment pieces created for desert sites. She gained national attention in the late 1970s with her ephemeral pigment installations pertaining to mapping, identity and the cosmos, executed in the natural landscape. In 1980, Albuquerque garnered international acclaim for her pivotal installation, The Washington Monument Project,〔Bijovet, Marga,(1983) In Search of Self Through Nature, (Arts and Architecture Magazine )〕 as featured in the International Sculptural Conference. The recognition this work gained, led to awards and commissions at major sites around the world, including the Great Pyramids, where she represented the United States at the International Cairo Biennale with her installation and exhibition ''Sol Star''〔Chattopadhyay, Collette (Winter 1997) ''Of Sands, Stars, and Desert'', World Sculpture News〕 which won the prestigious Cairo Biennale Prize. In 2006 Albuquerque was awarded a National Science Foundation Grant and lead a team of artists and scientists on a journey to Antarctica〔Cheng, Scarlet. (11 Sept. 2006) “Fleeting Albuquerque heaven in Antarctica” Los Angeles Times〕 where she created a large scale ephemeral artwork on the continent entitled Stellar Axis: Antarctica.〔Fox, William (March/April 2008), (Celestial Spheres ) , Orion Magazine〕 Albuquerque has created numerous site specific installations in the past two decades including works in the South Dakota Badlands, Death Valley and the Mojave desert. Her paintings are a materialization of the ideas about color, light and perception first created in her ephemeral works. Through her use of pure pigments, gold leaf and copper, she engages perceptual and alchemical shifts〔Campbell, Clayton. “Lita Albuquerque.” Art Gallery International 1990.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lita Albuquerque」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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