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Artist Birthday: Nancy Rubins

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

Through sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...

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Artist Birthday: Roberto González Goyri

Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Karl Cole

Sculptor Roberto González Goyri is one of the artists who exemplifies the electric spirit of development of modernism in Central and South American countries during the middle of the 1900s. ...

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Artist Birthday: Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friday, November 7, 2025 | Karl Cole

Vordemberge-Gildewart was a major figure in the Concrete Art that developed in Europe in many countries as a form of pure abstraction. It encompassed many individual movements, including Construct ...

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Artist Birthday: James Siena

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

James Siena is renowned for his intricate, circuit board-like geometric abstractions. Like many contemporary abstractionists, Siena follows a highly personal process in his colorful abstractions. ...

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Artist Birthday: Larry Walker

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Larry Walker was born in Georgia but raised from one year of age in Harlem, New York, in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. A consummate abstractionist, he also devoted his life to art edu ...

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Artist Birthday: Shirley Jaffe

Thursday, October 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

Shirley Jaffe is a fascinating American abstractionist who briefly flirted with Abstract Expressionism, early on (1950s) believed it had become formulaic, and pioneered her own unique abstract vis ...

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Artist Birthday: Moe Brooker

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

Moe Brooker was one of several African American artists who championed a spiritual type of abstraction as an important contribution to contemporary African American and American art. ...

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Artist Birthday: Alvin Loving, Jr

Friday, September 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

Alvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...

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Artist Birthday: Albert Oehlen

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

Albert Oehlen was part of a German artistic movement Junge Wilde (Young Wild ones) in the 1980s, the rebelled against the conformity of “modernism” in such movements as Minimalism, Con ...

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Artist Birthday: Richard Hunt

Friday, September 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Born in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...

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Canadian Modernist Paul-Émile Borduas

Monday, September 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

In the past few years, I have become very fond of Canadian modernism, particularly from the early to mid-1900s. Paul-Émile Borduas was a pivotal figure in Canadian art. He bridged modernist ten ...

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Another Beauty Attack: Rogier Bissière

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

I have what I like to call episodes of “Beauty Attack” on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis when I’m struck by the awesomeness of an artist’s work that I never stopped to contem ...

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Artist Birthday: Sarai Sherman

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

Painter, interior designer, and ceramic artist Sarai Sherman was a Jewish American whose paintings were a combination of reality and reminiscences, producing a unique form of abstraction. ...

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Artist Birthday: Hananiah Harari

Friday, August 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

Hananiah Harari was both an abstract painter and a commercial artist who designed advertising campaigns and magazine covers. Never a doctrinaire abstractionist, his work went freely between geometric ...

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Artist Birthday: Jacques Lipchitz

Friday, August 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jacques Lipchitz was an extraordinary early modernist sculptor who worked in the Cubist idiom longer than most other artists associated with the style. Eventually his style incorporated the monume ...

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Artist Birthday: Christian Schad

Thursday, August 21, 2025 | Karl Cole

Christian Schad was of the generation of artists whose reaction against World War I engendered the Dada movement in art. Dada introduced the reinterpretation of what constituted fine art based on a re ...

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