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Dennis Oppenheim, (Electric City, Washington, 6 de septiembre de 1938 – Nueva York, 22 de enero de 2011), fue un artista gráfico y escultor estadounidense. Oppenheim nació en Washington (EE. UU.) en 1938 y se formó en la Escuela de Artes y Oficios de California.
- American
- Electric City, Washington, United States
- Childhood
- Education and Early Training
- Mature Period
- Late Period
- The Legacy of Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim was born in Mason City, Washington (later renamed Electric City) which he explained "was really primarily a construction site for the construction of [the Grand Coulee] dam [and] it certainly is not a city. It's not even a town. It's kind of a ghost town without a town. It does not exist." The family lived there while his father wo...
Oppenheim stated, "I didn't leave high school knowing that I was going to become an artist, although it was really something I considered. I was not sure. I experienced a short period of questioning at that time." He spent a year working at his first-ever job (at a shipyard) and feeling "uncomfortable" and "really quite lost", before enrolling in t...
Oppenheim moved to New York in 1966, and in 1967, he moved into the Tribeca loft that served as his home and studio until his death in 2011. (For the last three decades of his life, he also owned a second home in The Springs on Long Island, next door to Jackson Pollock's house, where he liked to simply "go and think".) He taught art at a nursery sc...
In the later years of his career, Oppenheim focused on creating permanent outdoor sculptures that engaged with the surrounding environment in metaphorical ways. At this time, he felt a need to focus on public works in an attempt to "find an alternative to museums and galleries" - although he admitted, "public art has always been a bittersweet and d...
Oppenheim was one of the first to advocate strongly for the use of photography in ephemeral Land and Performance works, stating that the photograph was "necessary as a residue of communication". Oppenheim's early earthworks, such as Annual Rings (1968), which involved modifications to natural substances (such as snow and earth) that would eventuall...
- American
- September 6, 1938
- Electric City, Washington
- January 21, 2011
Fue uno de los artistas contemporáneos de primera magnitud en el panorama internacional. La obra de Oppenheim está presente en más de 70 de los principales museos, colecciones y espacios públicos de todo el mundo.
- Estadounidense
- 21 de enero de 2011, 2011 o 22 de enero de 2011, Nueva York (Estados Unidos)
American conceptual artist associated with body art and early earthworks movement. In the 1980s he created his "machine pieces" and later large-scale public artworks.
Oppenheim's body art grew out of his awareness of his own body when executing earthworks. In these works, the artist's body was both the subject and the object, providing the opportunity to work on a surface not exterior to the self, giving total control over the artwork.
27 de ene. de 2011 · Dennis Oppenheim, a pioneer of earthworks, body art and Conceptual art who later made emphatically tangible installations and public sculptures that veered between the demonically chaotic...
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim (American, Electric City, Washington 1938–2011 New York) Date: 1971. Medium: Red line print. Dimensions: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, 1992. Accession Number: 1992.388.55. Rights and Reproduction: © Dennis Oppenheim, courtesy Dennis Oppenheim Estate.
