Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Passaic
- Educated at
- Art Students League of New York
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition , rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. So…"
"Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around."
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Timeline
1938
Born
Birth1973
Died
Death
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