Rosemarie Castoro (born in Brooklyn, New York, United States; 1939 – 2015) was an American artist associated with the New York Minimalists. She worked in drawing, painting, sculpture, and other media.[1] She was associated with Minimalism, Conceptual art, and concrete poetry.[1] Castoro was a practitioner of monochrome painting and abstraction. Movement of the human body through physical space was a recurring theme in her work.

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Rosemarie Castoro
Born	1939 (1939) New York, New York
Died	2015 (aged 75–76)
Nationality	American
Education	Pratt Institute
Movement	Minimalism
Website	rosemariecastoro.com

Life and work

Castoro graduated from Pratt Art Institute in 1963.[2]

In the 1960s, she participated in several performances with Minimal Dance pioneer Yvonne Rainer and became involved with the study of choreography at the Pratt Institute.[1] Castoro graduated from the Pratt Institute, cum laude, with a BFA in 1963. She was involved with the Art Workers Coalition which met in her studio at 151 Spring Street.[3] In the 1970s, Castoro developed a strong focus on sculpture. In 1971, she created a series of giant minimal sculptures called Free Standing Wall Pieces which encouraged performative interaction. The surfaces of the panels are treated with graphite, gesso and marble dust, thickly applied creating massive rough brush strokes.[1] According to a statement made by her gallery representative, “she was acutely aware that women artists working in a formalist style milieu were not spared the gender-based dismissal of the time,” even while she remained “strictly dedicated to her non-representational abstract style of work.”[4]

Rosemarie Castoro at Artpark

Castoro's work, Flashers, is featured in the 1979 poster of Artpark under the title, "Public Sculpture for the Post-Heroic Age".[5] Artpark features sculptural, performance art, and public art. Castoro made these sculptures— seven-foot-tall figurative black forms of galvanized sheet metal—for Artpark.[6] In this exhibition, on view in New York from May 13–November 13, 1983, Castoro provided a voice for figurative art and a medium for its exploration.[6]

Collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York[7]
• Newark Museum, New Jersey
• Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida
• University Art Museum, Berkeley
• Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris
• Collection U.S. Embassy[8]
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.[9]

Grants

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1971
• New York State Council on the Arts 1972, 1973
• National Endowment for the Arts, 1975, 1985
• Tiffany Foundation, 1977
• Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 1989, 1998[8]

References

External links

• "Rosemarie Castoro". Art Forum. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

На других языках

[fr] Rosemarie Castoro