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In Memoriam is revealed each Wednesday afternoon and honors these we lately misplaced within the artwork world.
Alison Knowles (1933–2025)The primary girl of Fluxus
Alison Knowles at residence in New York in 2014 (photograph by and courtesy Jason Bergman for Fortunate Peach)
She labored not solely between disciplines however between media, seemingly exploding the boundaries of each type she inhabited. Throughout a six-decade profession, she was a pioneering pressure in process- and computer-based artwork, relational aesthetics, and extra, incorporating each probability and sound whereas drawing upon the political resonances of on a regular basis objects. “People don’t touch art,” she stated in a 2010 oral historical past with the Archives of American Artwork. “That’s one of the problems.”
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Jackie Ferrara (1929–2025)Sculptor who contained chaos in geometric kinds
Jackie Ferrara in New York on February 13, 2025 (photograph by Jason Schmidt, courtesy the Jackie Ferrara Basis)
A fixture of New York’s downtown artwork scene, she found her visible language of sleek wood buildings and architectural environments whereas renovating her Soho loft. She noticed her artwork as puzzles to be solved, and her public sculptures dot midwestern cities. “Ferrara might have sought to contain the chaos of her life in precise, geometric forms,” Zoë Lescaze writes, “but their subtle unpredictability reflects her own.”
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John Adams Griefen (1942–2025)Summary painter and Coloration Subject pioneer
John Adams Griefen in his studio in Tribeca, New York (c. 1979) (photograph by John King, courtesy the Property of John Adams Griefen)
He made vital contributions to summary artwork in the USA and Europe along with his monumental acrylic-on-canvas work. His works are held by the Whitney Museum of American Artwork in New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Backyard in Washington, DC; the Boston Museum of Positive Artwork, and extra.
Mitchell D. Kahan (1951–2025)Former director of the Akron Artwork Museum
Mitchell D. Kahan in a gallery on the Akron Artwork Museum (photograph courtesy Akron Artwork Museum)
He was among the many longest-serving artwork museum leaders in the USA as CEO and director of the Akron Artwork Museum between 1985 and 2013. “He combined deep knowledge of the Museum’s history with genuine care for its future,” Jon Fiume, present director and CEO of the Akron Artwork Museum, informed Hyperallergic.
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