John Baldessari

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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.

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