John Baldessari
John Baldessari was born in National City, California, United States on June 17th, 1931 and is the Conceptual Artist. At the age of 88, John Baldessari biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Born June 17, 1931) is an American experimental artist best known for his drawings of found photography and appropriated photographs.
He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Baldessari, a painter, first began to incorporate texts and photographs into his canvases in the mid-1960s.
He began working in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture, and photography in 1970.
Thousands of works by Robert Smith show — and in some cases combine—the narrative strength of images and the associative power of words within the limits of art.
His artwork has been seen in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe.
Cindy Sherman, David Salle, Annette Lemieux, and Barbara Kruger, among others, were all inspired by his work.
Personal life
Baldessari was married to Montessorian instructor Carol Ann Wixom between 1960 and 1984; they had two children.
Baldessari bought a bungalow in Santa Monica's coastal Ocean Park neighborhood in 1990 and enlisted architects Ron Godfredsen and Danna Sigal for a makeover. In Venice, he owned a Frank Gehry-designed holiday home. With Richard Diebenkorn and James Turrell, he and James Turrell owned a studio on Main Street in Santa Monica.
Early life and career
Baldessari was born in National City, California, to Hedvig Marie Jensen (1896-1950), a Danish nurse, and Antonio Baldessari (1877-1976), an Italian salvage dealer. Baldessari and his older sister were born in Southern California. He attended Sweetwater High School and San Diego State College. During the Great Depression, Baldessari grew up in relative anonymity.
Baldessari began teaching art in the San Diego school system in 1959. He taught in schools, junior colleges, and community colleges, eventually at the university level. Baldessari was the youngest faculty member of the University of California when it opened a campus in San Diego, according to Paul Brach, the current head of the Visual Art Department. David Antin and I shared an office at UCSD. Baldessari moved to Santa Monica, where he worked with many artists and writers, and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. David Salle, Jack Goldstein, Mike Kelley, Ken Feingold, Tony Oursler, James Welling, Barbara Bloom, Matt Mullican, and Troy Brauntuch were among his first classes. Baldessari taught "the infamous Post Studio class" at CalArts, which he intended to "indict people not daubing away at canvases or chipping away at a slab, implying that there could be some other kind of class problem." The class, which operated outside of medium-specificity, was influential in setting the tone for discussing a student's art study at CalArts and establishing a tradition of critical criticism at CalArts that was carried on by artists such as Michael Asher. He began teaching at CalArts in 1986 and went on to teach at UCLA, which he continued until 2008. Elliott Hundley and Analia Saban were among his UCLA students.