Artist Feature
Lawrence Weiner: 2017 Aspen Award for Art Honoree
The AAM is pleased to announce that the iconic American artist Lawrence Weiner will be the 2017 Aspen Award for Art honoree. The award presentation is a major highlight of the main ArtCrush event—the thirteenth annual celebration of which will be held this year on Friday, August 4.
Born in 1942 in New York, Weiner is internationally recognized as one of the originators and leading practitioners of Conceptual Art beginning in the 1960s. Over the span of a nearly sixty-year-career, his artistic output has taken on many aspects, including large-scale, text-based works that spur viewers to contemplate their relationship to their surroundings in light of a particular written observation. His instructions for “removals” of portions of gallery and museum walls are now legendary—36 x 36 removal to the lathing or support wall of a plaster or wallboard from a wall (1968) was part of the AAM’s 2008 group exhibition Now You See It, which featured works that encourage us to re-examine basic assumptions about how we interpret an artwork’s essence beyond its material composition.
Past AAM Aspen Award for Art honorees include Gabriel Orozco (2016), Lorna Simpson (2015), Ernesto Neto (2014), Teresita Fernández (2013), Tom Sachs (2012), Roni Horn (2011), Marilyn Minter (2010), Fred Tomaselli (2009), Ed Ruscha (2008), Jim Hodges (2007), Tony Feher (2006), and Richard Tuttle (2005).
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