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Name
Robert Kushner
Role
Painter
Education
University of California, San Diego
Books
Robert Kushner: On Location, Robert Kushner: Silk Road
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Robert Kushner (; born 1949, Pasadena, CA) is an American contemporary painter who is known especially for his involvement in Pattern and Decoration. He has been called "a founder" of that artistic movement. In addition to painting, Kushner creates installations in a variety of mediums, from large-scale public mosaics to delicate paintings on antique book pages. He is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York.
Kushner draws from a unique range of influences, including Islamic and European textiles, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonnard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuchu, Qi Baishi, and Wu Changshuo. Kushner’s work combines organic representational elements with abstracted geometric forms in a way that is both decorative and modernist. He has said, “I never get tired of pursuing new ideas in the realm of ornamentation. Decoration, an abjectly pejorative dismissal for many, is a very big, somewhat defiant declaration for me. … The eye can wander, the mind think unencumbered through visual realms that are expansively and emotionally rich. Decoration has always had its own agenda, the sincere and unabashed offering of pleasure and solace."
Kushner’s most recent installation, Scriptorium: Devout Exercises of the Heart, is a group of over one thousand drawings of flowers and plants on book pages that date from 1500 to 1920. The pages have been removed from discarded and damaged books of all types from around the globe. In 2010, Scriptorium was exhibited in Desire at The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. It then traveled to the Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark before returning to the U.S. for the inaugural exhibition at DC Moore Gallery’s new Chelsea location in 2011. It will be exhibited at the La Jolla Athenaeum in California in summer 2012.
Murals
Kushner has created large-scale murals for public and private spaces. In 2004, he installed two monumental mosaic murals, 4 Seasons Seasoned, at the 77th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station. He has also completed commissions at Gramercy Tavern and Maialino restaurants in New York City, Union Square in Tokyo, The Ritz Carlton Highlands in Lake Tahoe, CA, and Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. Recently, an eighty-foot-long marble mosaic, Welcome, was installed at the new Raleigh Durham International Airport in North Carolina.
Exhibitions
Kushner's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Japan and has been included in the Whitney Biennial three times and twice at the Venice Biennale in Italy. He was the subject of solo exhibitions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum. A mid-career retrospective of his work was organized by the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.
Other work
In his early career, Kushner participated in solo and group performance art. Many of these performances featured costumes that Kushner created with craft techniques such as sewing and embroidery. His first performance, entitled Costumes for Moving Bodies, occurred in 1971 during the artist's senior exhibition at the University of California San Diego. The following year, Kushner began incorporating food into his clothing-based performances. Kushner created two performances in 1972 that featured food costumes. The first, Costumes Constructed and Eaten, was presented at the Jack Glenn Gallery in Corona del Mar, California, and the second, Robert Kushner and Friends Eat Their Clothes, in New York. Both of these performances ended with the audience eating the garments. According to the artist, the primary artistic elements of such food performances would be the “ephemeral composition of all the costumes together, the observation of their disintegration through the act of eating, and the lingering sense of gustatory titillation.”
He has also published scholarly articles in a variety of publications. Most recently, he edited the publication Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt (2011), a compilation of the art critic Goldin's essays.
Public collections
Kushner's work is represented in numerous important public collections worldwide, including:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Panama
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Galleria degli Ufizzi, Florence, Italy
Gröninger Museum, Gröningen, the Netherlands
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg, Russia
Museum Moderner Kunst - Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Neue-Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
State of Hawaii
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
The Tate Gallery, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Notable solo exhibitions
2011
"Robert Kushner: Wildflower Convocation," February 3 - March 12, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
“Robert Kushner, Flora Dreams: Paintings and Works on Paper,” February 26 – April 9, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
“Robert Kushner: 30 Literary Nudes,” April 16 – May 28, 2011, Luis De Jesus, Santa Monica, CA
2009
“Robert Kushner: Paintings and Works on Paper,” van Straaten Gallery, Denver, CO
“Robert Kushner: Caravansarai,” Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
“Robert Kushner,” Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
“Robert Kushner: Silk Road,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
“Robert Kushner: New Work,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007
“Robert Kushner,” Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
"Robert Kushner: On Location," DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2006
“Robert Kushner: Winter Bouquets,” Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
“Robert Kushner: Red Series,” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan