‘Don’t look at things — look in between things.’ JohnBaldessari
and installation. In doing so, Baldessari started on a path of experimentation that, by the time of his death, would see him garlanded as one of the most influential contemporary American artists and educators of the late-20th century – and, along withBaldessari and Ed Ruscha, pictured at Ruscha’s studio in Culver City.Baldessari was born on 17 June 1931 in National City, California. His parents, Antonio and Hedvig Baldessari, had met after arriving on the West Coast from Austria and Denmark.
In 1957, a studio class pushed Baldessari away from education and more towards introspective creation. By the time he visited the Duchamp retrospective in 1963, he had earned a spot studying at the prestigious Otis Art College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Once ensconced in his CalArts post-studio, Baldessari became part of a movement of artists who placed more emphasis on the ideas an artwork expressed over aesthetic concerns regarding composition or draftsmanship.
and Roy Lichtenstein, Baldessari’s practice centred largely on doctoring and manipulating photographic ephemera taken images from news, stills from Hollywood movies, or advertising campaigns, many of which were bought for 10 cents apiece from a trinket store in Burbank, LA County. He would often obscure the faces visible in his found photographs, directing the viewer to focus on accidental elements of the composition.
Baldessari remained at CalArts, teaching and working in his post-studio, until 1988. From 1996 to 2005, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. His departure from university teaching coincided with a lifetime achievement award from the Americans for the Arts. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008; awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2009; and received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2014.
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