On the occasion of her Guild Hall show in East Hampton and the unveiling of her work on the site of the Whitney Museum’s new construction site, the New York Times gives us a brief bio of Barbara Kruger’s work:
Barbara Kruger (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times )
Born in 1945 in Newark, Ms. Kruger studied with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel, a former art director for Harper’s Bazaar, before she began working as a page designer at Mademoiselle in 1966. In 1969 she made her first artworks, crocheted and sewn wall hangings, and began to write poetry and organize shows.
Coming of age in New York alongside friends like Richard Prince, Sarah Charlesworth, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Ross Bleckner and Julian Schnabel, she said, “none of us ever thought we’d sell our work — ever!”Continue Reading
