|
Tom Nussbaum (born August 12, 1953, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist known for a variety of work including sculpture,〔() Art about artists making art, NJ.com〕 drawings, paper cuts, prints, children’s books, animations,〔() Computer-generated works fill the big -- and tiny -- screen, NJ.com〕 functional design objects, public art, and site-specific commissions.〔() Park Place Magazine〕 ==Early Life and Career== Nussbaum was raised in Minneapolis, where he studied at the University of Minnesota. In 1980 he moved to New York City where he worked as a studio assistant to the artists Mimi Gross, Red Grooms and Suzan Pitt. In 1982 he started making art full-time. Nussbaum's work has been exhibited at numerous galleries including the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York, NY and Chicago, IL, the Delahunty and Barry Whistler galleries in Dallas, TX, the Robischon Gallery in Denver, CO, and the Metaphor Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. His sculpture has been included in museum exhibitions at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, the Laforet Museum, Tokyo, Japan, the Nicolayson Art Museum Casper, WY, the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ,〔() Outdoor sculptures on view at Montclair Art Museum,NJ.Com〕 the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, The Contemporary Austin (Laguna Gloria Art Museum), Austin, Texas and the Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin. In 2003 the Montclair Art Museum commissioned Nussbaum to create "Home Sweet Home",〔() The Montclair Art Museum: Tom Nussbaum: Home Sweet Home and Twenty Small Sculptures〕 a site-specific mural of abstracted geometric and folkloric motifs. Home Sweet Home was accompanied by a display of twenty of the artist's enigmatic, allegorical figures. Nussbaum is also known for his design objects. In 1985 he began The Acme Robot Company, producing night-lights and light figures of his design. In 1988 he founded Atomic Iron Works, designing and producing iron hat and coat racks and other useful items, sold in museum shops such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 1992, Children's Universe/Rizzoli published his activity book, My World is Not Flat." 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「Tom Nussbaum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|