Lee Lozano
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Lozano in 1971
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Lenore Knaster November 5, 1930 Newark, New Jersey |
| Died | October 2, 1999 (aged 68) Dallas, Texas |
Lee Lozano (November 5, 1930 – October 2, 1999) was an American painter, and visual and conceptual artist.
Born Lenore Knaster in Newark, New Jersey, she started to use the name "Lee" at the age of fourteen, often preferring to go by the simpler, if more enigmatic "E." She attended the University of Chicago as an undergraduate from 1948 to 1951. She studied philosophy and natural sciences; received B.A. In 1956 she married Adrian Lozano, a Mexican-born architect. The marriage ended in divorce four years later. During this time (1956–1960), she earned a B.F.A. from The Art Institute of Chicago.
After traveling in Europe for a year, Lozano moved to New York City to pursue her career as an artist. She had her first exhibition in 1966, at the Bianchini Gallery in New York. Many of her early paintings and drawings were done in a raw expressionistic style. Her so-called "comix" often featured hand-held tools embellished to resemble genitalia or positioned in a suggestive manner. These images were sometimes accompanied by provocative texts and sexual innuendos. Lozano's art of this period is often compared to early works by Claes Oldenburg and late works by Philip Guston. In the late 1960s she experimented with a more Minimalist aesthetic, creating monochromatic Wave paintings based on the physics of light.
Like many of her contemporaries, including Adrian Piper and Vito Acconci, Lozano began to pursue Conceptual projects starting in the mid-1960s. In February 1969 she commenced her General Strike Piece, in which she withdrew from the New York art world. Her instructions to herself were as follows: GRADUALLY BUT DETERMINEDLY AVOID BEING PRESENT AT OFFICIAL OR PUBLIC "UPTOWN" FUNCTIONS OR GATHERINGS RELATED TO THE "ART WORLD" IN ORDER TO PURSUE INVESTIGATIONS OF TOTAL PERSONAL AND PUBLIC REVOLUTION. EXHIBIT IN PUBLIC ONLY PIECES WHICH FURTHER SHARING OF IDEAS & INFORMATION RELATED TO TOTAL PERSONAL AND PUBLIC REVOLUTION.
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