词条 | William Leavitt (artist) |
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Leavitt received a BFA from University of Colorado, Boulder and a MFA from Claremont Graduate School.[4] Since moving to Los Angeles in 1965 his work evolved, increasingly referencing themes endemic to the city such as the line between reality and fantasy and the nature of illusion.[5] Leavitt is a contemporary to artists like Allen Ruppersberg, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Bas Jan Ader, Guy de Cointet, and William Wegman, a generation that "distinguished their work from most melancholic Minimal/Conceptual art made in New York and Europe by using deadpan humor, slapstick comedy and the cliche as a way to, as Baldessari put it, 'take conceptual art off of its pedestal, so to speak.'"[6] Leavitt was given a significant survey exhibition by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2011, titled Theater Objects. Despite Leavitt's long history of exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and abroad, the Theater Objects retrospective was described as "a revelation" by art critic Christopher Knight.[7] Awards and honorsLeavitt received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for New Genres in 1991, the J. Paul Getty Fellowship in 1993, a Guggenheim Grant in 1998,[8] and a United States Artists fellowship in 2012.[9] among other awards. Personal lifeBorn in Washington, D.C., Leavitt moved to Los Angeles in 1965.[1] He shuns the spotlight. He lives and works with his wife, also a painter, in two small cabins in Silver Lake, in L.A. atop a hill reachable only by foot.[3] Besides painting and photography and building installations, the multi-talented Leavitt also writes plays, builds sets, and handcrafts cellos on which he plays solos and with local groups.[3] References1. ^1 {{cite book|last=Goldstein|first=Ann|title=William Leavitt: Theater Objects|year=2011|publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art|location=Los Angeles, CA|isbn=978-1-933751-18-4|page=144 and 18}} 2. ^{{cite web|last=MOCA, LA|title=William Leavitt: Theater Objects|url=http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=430|publisher=MOCA, LA|accessdate=29 November 2013}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last=Pagel|first=David|title=William Leavitt: Multi-tasker at heart|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/06/entertainment/la-ca-spring-william-leavitt-20110306|accessdate=26 November 2013|newspaper=LA Times|date=March 6, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=William Leavitt C.V.|url=http://www.margoleavingallery.com/assets/uploaded/pdf/leavitt_biography.pdf|publisher=Margo Leavin Gallery|accessdate=13 July 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|last=Griffin|first=Jonathan|title=California Dreaming (Art Monograph)|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/california-dreaming/|publisher=Frieze magazine|accessdate=8 September 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web|last=Klonarides|first=Carole Ann|title=William Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg, and Mungo Thomson|url=http://x-traonline.org/issues/volume-10/number-3/william-leavitt-allen-ruppersberg-and-mungo-thomson/|publisher=X-Tra|accessdate=13 July 2013}} 7. ^{{cite news|last=Knight|first=Christopher|title=Art review: 'William Leavitt: Theater Objects' at the Museum of Contemporary Art |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/03/art-review-william-leavitt-theater-objects-at-the-museum-of-contemporary-art.html|accessdate=8 September 2013|newspaper=LA Times|date=March 16, 2011}} 8. ^{{cite news|last=MOCA|first=L.A.|title=Previewing William Leavitt: Theater Objects|url=http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2011/02/01/previewing-william-leavitt-theater-objects/|accessdate=30 November 2013|newspaper=The Curve|date=February 1, 2011}} 9. ^{{cite news|last=Finkel|first=Jori|title=Artists Alison Saar, Kerry Tribe, William Leavitt are USA fellows|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/02/entertainment/la-et-cm-usa-fellows-20121203|accessdate=13 July 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=2 December 2012}} External links
8 : 1941 births|Living people|Artists from Washington, D.C.|Artists from Los Angeles|University of Colorado Boulder alumni|Claremont Graduate University alumni|Performance art in Los Angeles|American conceptual artists |
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