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John Currin (born 1962) is an American painter based in New York City. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner.[1] His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and contemporary fashion models.[2] He often distorts or exaggerates the erotic forms of the female body,[3] and has stressed that his characters are reflections of himself rather than inspired by real people.[4]

John Currin
The Veil, oil on canvas by John Currin
Born1962
Boulder, Colorado
NationalityAmerican
EducationCarnegie Mellon University (BFA)
Yale University (MFA)
Known forPainting

Early life


Currin was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in Connecticut, the son of a physics professor and a piano teacher from Oklahoma. In Connecticut as a teenager he studied painting privately with a renowned and traditionally trained Russian artist from Odessa, Ukraine, Lev Meshberg.[5] He went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he obtained a BFA in 1984, and received a MFA from Yale University in 1986.


Career


At White Columns in New York City in 1989 he exhibited a series of portraits of young girls derived from the photographs in a high school yearbook, and initiated his efforts to distill art from traditionally clichéd subjects. In the 1990s, when political themed art works were favored, Currin brazenly used bold depictions of busty young women, mustachioed men and asexual divorcés, setting him apart from the rest. He used magazines like Cosmopolitan along with old issues of Playboy for inspiration for his paintings. In 1992 Currin moved to the Andrea Rosen Gallery, focusing, less sympathetically, on well-to-do middle-aged women.[5] Nonetheless, by the late 1990s Currin's ability to paint subjects of kitsch with technical facility met with critical and financial success, and by 2003 his paintings were selling "for prices in the high six figures" after he moved to the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, New York.[5]: 63 [6] More recently, he has undertaken a series of figure paintings dealing with unabashedly pornographic themes, saying "One motive of mine is to see if I could make this clearly debased and unbeautiful thing become beautiful in a painting".[5]

He has had retrospective exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago[1] and is represented in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden[7] and the Tate Gallery.[8] Currin's Whitney retrospective of 2004 showcased the development of his career through over 40 of his displayed paintings.[4]

In 1994 Currin met artist Rachel Feinstein at a gallery in which she was living in a self-made gingerbread house as a performance piece. However, Feinstein specializes in sculptural work. They were engaged two weeks later at Currin's show in Paris, and married three years later on Valentine's Day.[9][10] They have two sons and a daughter.[9] She has been described as his muse,[10] which he says is "kinda corny". However, he has stated "[W]hen I met Rachel I felt that I could connect with some principles that moved my art along, that I had some freedom from the petty things in my own personality." Feinstein has appeared in many of Currin's paintings, both as a recognizable face and as a body model.[11] In 2002 Feinstein and Currin published a 24-page book of their works at the Hydra Workshop in Hydra, Greece which they titled The Honeymooners, John Currin and Rachel Feinstein. It includes an interview conducted by Sadie Coles.[12] In 2011 the New York Times described them as "the ruling power couple in today’s art world.[9]

In a 2011 interview, Currin described his relationship to his work as, "...a completely ambisexual atmosphere. I think you're right if there's a reverse logic to my work It's that the pictures of men are about men and the pictures of women are about me.[13] He has scrutinised and emulated 16th century Northern European paintings. His inspirations come from Old Master portraits and pin-ups, nymphs, and ethereal feminine prototypes, as well as his muse and wife, Feinstein. His paintings hold conversation between the grotesque and the beautiful, and range inspiration from classical artists such as Fragonard and Bouchard to Rockwell and Crumb [14]

Currin's painting, Bea Arthur Naked, sold at Christie's on May 15, 2013 for US$1,900,000.[15]


Source materials


Currin has cited Danish pornography "pulled... off the Internet" as source material for his work.[16] Specific images published by Color Climax Corporation have been identified as sources for Currin's more pornographic paintings, including compositions and small details.[17][18]


Exhibitions



Solo exhibits



Group exhibits (selected)



References


  1. Kimmelman, Michael (21 November 2003). "ART REVIEW; With Barbed Wit Aforethought". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. "Park City Grill — Collections — Walker Art Center". collections.walkerart.org.
  3. Holzwarth 2009, pp. 114–121.
  4. "photography". www.stephaniebuhmann.com.
  5. Tomkins, Calvin (January 28, 2008). "Lifting the Veil: Old Masters, pornography, and the work of John Currin". The New Yorker.
  6. "John Currin - Artist - Andrea Rosen Gallery". www.andrearosengallery.com.
  7. John Currin work, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collections page.
  8. Tate Gallery website's John Currin page
  9. David Coleman (11 March 2011). "Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Their Own Best Creations". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  10. Glen O'Brien, Interview with Rachel Feinstein, Interview magazine, December 2011.
  11. Jessica Berens,We are not a muse: Jessica Berens talks to John Currin and Rachel Feinstein, The Observer, August 31, 2003.
  12. WorldCat listing of The Honeymooners, John Currin and Rachel Feinstein.
  13. Holmes, A.M. (September 2011). "V.F. Portrait: John Currin". Vanity Fair.
  14. "John Currin at Gagosian - Gagosian". www.gagosian.com. 12 April 2018.
  15. O'Neill, Natalie (17 May 2013). "Naked Bea Arthur painting by John Currin sells for $2m at Christie's". Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  16. "Influences: John Currin". New York.
  17. "John Currin Revisited". NYC Art.
  18. LA STUCKIST GROUP (February 16, 2007). "The Pornographer John Currin". Stuck in LA.

Works cited





На других языках

[de] John Currin

John Currin (* 19. September 1962 in Boulder, Colorado) ist ein US-amerikanischer Maler. Er besuchte die Carnegie Mellon University sowie die Yale University.
- [en] John Currin

[fr] John Currin

John Currin, né le 19 septembre 1962 à Boulder (Colorado), est un peintre américain.

[it] John Currin

John Currin (Boulder, 1962) è un pittore statunitense che vive e lavora a New York. È noto per i suoi dipinti satirici figurativi provocatori che trattano di tematiche sessuali e sociali.[1] Nelle sue opere sono presenti influenze che vanno dall'arte del Rinascimento, la pittura fiamminga, alle riviste patinate e alla pubblicità degli anni cinquanta.[2] È nella sua cifra stilistica l'alterare o enfatizzare pesantemente le linee del corpo femminile[3][4].

[ru] Каррен, Джон

Джон Каррен (англ. John Currin; род. 1962, Боулдер, штат Колорадо) — современный американский художник.


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