Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American experimental artist and colllagist.

In black-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text, the majority of her artwork consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions.

"You," "your," "I," "we," and "they" are often included in her works' titles, addressing societal norms of power, culture, and sexuality.

Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.

Personal life

Kruger lives in Los Angeles' Beachwood Canyon neighborhood.

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Early life and career

In Newark, New Jersey, Kruger was born into a working-class family. Her father worked as a Shell Oil chemist, while her mother was a legal secretary.

Kruger graduated from Weequahic High School. She attended Syracuse University but had to leave after one year due to her father's death. She went on to Parsons School of Design in New York for a semester after her time at Syracuse University in 1965. Kruger began designing book jackets in the next ten years, but not necessarily pursuing graphic design for magazines and freelance picture editing. Kruger became interested in poetry in the late 1960s and began attending poetry readings as well as writing her own poetry. Kruger studied art and design with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel while attending Parsons School of Design, then moved to Condé Nast Publications. Kruger was given the job of head designer for the following year just over a year ago. She began as a designer at Mademoiselle and then moved to work as a picture editor for House and Garden, Aperture, and other publications. At the behest of her friend Ingrid Sischy, she also wrote film, television, and music columns for Artforum and REALLIFE Magazine.

Kruger's earliest works date back to 1969, when she began making large wall hangings from thread, beads, sequins, feathers, and ribbons. These works represented craft's feminist resurrection at the time. Kruger crocheted, sewed, and painted vibrantly hued and erotically suggestive objects, some of which were included by curator Marcia Tucker in the 1973 Whitney Biennial. Magdalena Abakanowicz's exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art inspired these works. Although some of these pieces were included in the Whitney Biennial, Kruger became dissatisfied with her work output. She took a break from creating more abstract pieces in 1976, feeling that her job had become meaningless and mindless. She then moved to Berkeley, California, where she studied at the University of California and was inspired by Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes' writings. She returned to art in 1977, illustrating her own architectural photographs and releasing a book called Picture/Readings. She was inspired by her family's tradition of touring "model homes they could never afford."

Kruger reportedly felt threatened by entering New York galleries due to the current culture of the art scene, which, to her, does not welcome "particularly non-masochistic women." However, she received early support for her art ventures from organizations such as the Public Art Fund, which encouraged her to keep painting. In the early 1980s, she switched to collage, which was then a new thing.

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