Yale Architecture & Visual Art
Graham Arader (BA Economics 1972) rare map & print dealer.
Theophilus Brown; painter.
Norman Carlberg; sculptor, director of the Rinehart School of Sculptor.
Brian D'Amato (BA 1984) novelist & sculptor.
Edward D. Dart (BA 1949) architect.
Rackstraw Downes (BFA 1963; MFA 1964) painter.
Paul Fontaine (BFA 1935) painter.
Ann Gale (MFA 1991) painter; professor at the University of Washington School of Art.
John Graham Jr.
Dan Friedman; graphic designer.
John Graham Jr. (BA 1931) architect; designer of the Space Needle in the Seattle, Washington.
Amin Gulgee (BA 1987) Pakistani metal sculptor, jewelry designer; son of famed artist, Gulgee.
William Harlan Hale (BA 1931) writer, journalist, editor.
Erwin Hauer; sculptor.
Barkley Hendricks (BFA 1970, MFA 1972) painter.
Sujata Keshavan (MFA 1987) graphic designer.
Jack Lembeck (MFA 1970) painter & sculptor.
Joshua Meyer (BA 1996) painter.
Hally Pancer (MFA 1998) photographer.
Joshua Prince Ramus (BA 1991) architect.
Leo Rubinfien (MFA 1976) photographer.
Michael T. Williams (MFA 1968) artist; first African American included in the H.W. Janson History of Art.
Carlos Zedillo Velasco (BA 2008) Architect, vice president of Infonavti Mexico.
Theophilus Brown; painter.
Norman Carlberg; sculptor, director of the Rinehart School of Sculptor.
Brian D'Amato (BA 1984) novelist & sculptor.
Edward D. Dart (BA 1949) architect.
Rackstraw Downes (BFA 1963; MFA 1964) painter.
Paul Fontaine (BFA 1935) painter.
Ann Gale (MFA 1991) painter; professor at the University of Washington School of Art.
John Graham Jr.
Dan Friedman; graphic designer.
John Graham Jr. (BA 1931) architect; designer of the Space Needle in the Seattle, Washington.
Amin Gulgee (BA 1987) Pakistani metal sculptor, jewelry designer; son of famed artist, Gulgee.
William Harlan Hale (BA 1931) writer, journalist, editor.
Erwin Hauer; sculptor.
Barkley Hendricks (BFA 1970, MFA 1972) painter.
Sujata Keshavan (MFA 1987) graphic designer.
Jack Lembeck (MFA 1970) painter & sculptor.
Joshua Meyer (BA 1996) painter.
Hally Pancer (MFA 1998) photographer.
Joshua Prince Ramus (BA 1991) architect.
Leo Rubinfien (MFA 1976) photographer.
Michael T. Williams (MFA 1968) artist; first African American included in the H.W. Janson History of Art.
Carlos Zedillo Velasco (BA 2008) Architect, vice president of Infonavti Mexico.
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- Josef Albers was born on 19 March 1888 in Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was married to Annie Albers. He died on 25 March 1976 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.pianist
- Richard Anuszkiewicz was born on 23 May 1930 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Sally (Elizabeth) Feeney. He died on 19 May 2020 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.painter of the Op-Art movement.
- Matthew Barney is known for Art Safari (2003).BA 1989, video & installation artist.
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Jennifer Bartlett was born on 14 March 1941 in Long Beach, California, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Another Son of Sam (1977) and Ball of Wax (2003). She was married to Edward Bartlett. She died on 25 July 2022 in Amagansett, New York, USA.MFA painter- Director
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Jonathan Borofsky was born on 24 December 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Prisoners (1985), The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (1986) and Art/New York (1979).artist- Producer
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Steven Brill was born on 22 August 1950 in Queens, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Court TV News (1991), Trial Story (1991) and America's Most Admired Lawbreaker.BA 1972; JD 1975; founder of Court TV and The American Lawyer.- Director
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Chuck Close was born on 5 July 1940 in Monroe, Washington, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Bob (1973), Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and Chuck Close (2007). He was married to Sienna Shields and Leslie Rose. He died on 19 August 2021 in Oceanside, New York, USA.MFA 1964; painter- Director
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Gregory Crewdson is known for Reflective Light, Films 4 Peace: Gregory Crewdson (2012) and Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012).MFA 1988; photographer.- Art Department
John Currin is known for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012).MFA 1986; painter- Norman Foster was born on 1 June 1935 in Manchester, England, UK. He is married to Elena Ochoa. They have one child. He was previously married to Sabiha Rumani Malik and Wendy Cheesman.M.Arch 1961; architect.
- Brendan Gill was born on 4 October 1914 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer, known for Playdate (1961), Broadway: The American Musical (2004) and New York: A Documentary Film (1999). He was married to Anne Barnard. He died on 27 December 1997 in New York City, New York, USA.BA 1936; architect, writer, & critic.
- Nancy Graves was born on 23 December 1939 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA. She was married to Avery L. Smith and Richard Serra. She died on 21 October 1995 in New York City, New York, USA.sculptor
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Mazharul Islam is known for Priyotomeshu (2009) and Kalmilata (1981).M.Arch 1951; Bangladeshi architect.- Maya Lin was born on 5 October 1959 in Athens, Ohio, USA. She was previously married to Daniel Wolf.BA 1981; M.Arch 1986; honorary Ph.D. 1987; architect; best known for the Vietnam Memorial, subject of the Oscar winning documentary, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.
- Philip-Lorca Di Corcia is known for Dior: Terminal 3 (2014) and Views on Vermeer (2009).MFA 1979; photographer
- Brice Marden was born on 15 October 1938 in Bronxville, New York, USA. He was married to Helen Harrington and Pauline Baez. He died on 9 August 2023 in Tivoli, New York, USA.MFA 1963; painter.
- Malerie Marder is known for Monsters in the Closet (1994).MFA 1998; photographer
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MFA 1997; scenic designer, Tony Award for "The Pillowman."- In 1938 the family moved from Italy to England. After graduating from school, Rogers studied architecture at the Architectural Association School in London. He later moved to the renowned Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, with the help of a Fulbright scholarship. He was, among other things, a student of Serge Chermayeff. After graduating, Rogers moved to San Francisco. In the same year he designed numerous buildings and projects. Among other things, university buildings that he planned together with the renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster bear his design signature. Other planning and construction tasks included buildings for research institutes, research laboratories and industrial buildings in the USA, France and England.
In 1963, Rogers opened the office community "Team 4" together with his wife Su and the architect couple Wendy and Sir Norman Foster. The most significant industrial project to emerge during this period was the Reliance Control Factory in Swindon, Wilshire (1967). In the same year he took part in the Paris Biennale and represented the British architects. During this time, the Team 4 office disbanded and Rogers founded the office "Su & Richard Rogers". In addition to his planning work, Rogers also held various teaching positions such as at the University of Cambridge, at the Architectural Association School in London, at the Polytechnic in London, at the renowned Yale University, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University. One of his joint developments with his wife at the end of the 1960s was a light house that consisted of elements made of plastic rings and could be designed extremely flexibly.
In 1971 he further developed it under the name "Zip-up". In 1968/69, Rogers built his own home in the London district of Wimbledon, which consists of a painted steel frame and plastic infills. From 1969 onward, Rogers designed several collaborative projects with the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano, but these remained unrealized. They applied together for the competition project Center National d'Arts et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, which they also won. The design and realization (1971-1977) established Rogers' international reputation. The Pompidou Building became one of the most visited buildings in the world in the post-war period. At the end of this extraordinary construction project, the collaboration with Piano also dissolved. Rogers set up his own office in London under the name "Richard Rogers & Partners".
Rogers designed a monumental high-rise complex for the insurance company Lloyd's (1979-1986) in London. This building cemented his world-renowned reputation as a star architect. His other completed projects include the Inmos Microprocessor Factory in Newport Swent in South Wales, the PA Technology Laboratories and Corporate Facility in Princeton in New Jersey and the construction of the PA Technology Cambridge Laboratory in Cambridge, which was built in three phases in 1975 -was completed in 1983. Rogers' subsequent plans also included the design of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin with an extensive residential and office complex as transparent glass architecture. In his view of progress and scientific optimism, the British architect often constructs and designs his projects with visible technology, which gives them an extremely unusual appearance.
Construction grids, supply parts highlighted in bright colors or transparent tubes act as striking design features. Rogers then acted as an urban planning warning in the face of rapid population growth, increasing environmental pollution, diminishing resources and increasing social antagonisms. In lectures around the world, he called for sustainable architecture and well-considered urban planning in order to achieve greater environmental sustainability and fairer distribution of goods. Rogers places holistic demands on the future architecture of dynamic cities, according to which, in addition to the aestheticization of public space, it must also fulfill profound requirements such as ecology, protection from traffic or social compatibility. In April 2007, he expanded his partnership and changed the name to "Rogers Stirk Harbor & Partners." That same year, Rogers was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize.M. Arch 1962; architect; 2007 Pritzker Prize Winner. - Art Department
The family of Mark Rothko, whose real name was Rothkowitz, emigrated to New York in 1912/1913. In 1913 they moved to Portland (Oregon). He attended Yale University in New Haven from 1921 to 1923. He then took acting lessons from 1924 to 1927 and was a student of the expressionist Max Weber. In 1929 he began teaching at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. In 1932 he married Edith Sarah and two years later he became a co-founder of the artist group "Artists Union" in New York. Just one year later, the independent association of artists "The Ten" was founded. Marcus Rothkowitz began to change his name to Mark Rothko in 1940, which he kept. Around this time he became acquainted with Expressionism. He initiated a change from his previous surrealistic painting style in order to find his own painting language through the expressive style. It was expressed in the blurry rectangles of color.
After his divorce, he married Mell Beistle in 1945. This union resulted in two children, Kate (born 1950) and Christopher (born 1963). With his major work, which began in 1949, Mark Rothko became one of the most important representatives of abstract expressionism and color field painting. In 1950, Mark Rothko embarked on a five-month European tour through France, Italy and England. After his return he taught at Brooklyn College from 1951. Three years later the collaboration with the Sidney Janis Gallery began. In 1958, Rothko received an artistic commission for the "Four Seasans" restaurant in the Seagram Building, but he turned it down. The following year a second trip to Europe took place. A permanent Rothko Room with his paintings was set up in Washington's Philipps Collection in 1960. In 1969 he received another artistic commission for murals at the famous Harvard University in Cambridge near Boston.
In 1963, the Marlborough Fine Arts Gallery took up the painter's artistic interests. The following year, the construction of the Rothko Chapel in Houston was commissioned. Rothko became seriously ill in 1968. A year later, in 1969, the Mark Rothko Foundation was founded. The Tate Gallery was gifted nine Seagram Murals in 1969. During this time he separated from his wife Mell Beistle. Rothko became known for his abstract large-format paintings with their colored rectangular surfaces, which create the illusion of movement for the viewer through their blurred outlines. Beyond his actual painting, the artist always tried to create a close connection between the viewer and his works of art. It was always his intention to densely drape small rooms with his large-format works and to expose them to only subdued light.
The simple arrangement of its non-representational rectangular surfaces, the light and the space create something sublime that the viewer can also grasp. The apparent movement of the flat image objects creates tension in the viewer, who is absorbed by it and thus also by the image - in accordance with the artist's intentions. Rothko's abstraction is symbolic in nature. He was inspired by themes from the Old and New Testaments, myths and archaisms. He combines an eternal validity with his style, which he presents and makes tangible in the pictorial translation. As a representative of color field painting, he gave significant impetus to abstract expressionism.
In 1970, the Rothko Rooms opened at the Tate Gallery, and a year later, in 1971, the Rothko Chapel in Houston was posthumously completed.
Mark Rothko committed suicide in New York. He died on February 25, 1970.Class of 1924; painter.- Actor
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Eero Saarinen was born on 17 November 1956. He is an actor, known for Isänmaan toivot (1998), Kvartetti (1991) and Presidentit (2005).B. Arch 1934; architect best known for the St. Louis Gateway Arch.- Director
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Serra studied in Berkeley and Santa Barbara from 1957 to 1961. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, he completed his further studies with the title of Master of Fine and Liberal Arts. From 1961 to 1964 he was a student of the German-American painter and designer Josef Albers at the University of California and at Yale University in New Haven. He then worked in a steelworks. In 1964 he took a trip to Italy. There he came across the movements of Arte pova and Minimal Art, which influenced him. In 1966 he moved to New York and made contact with Minimal Art artists. Serra incorporated his suggestions into sculptural works, which he decorated with materials such as lead, neon tubes and rubber. The work entitled "Belts" was created in 1966 and 1967. At the end of the 1960s, Richard Serra realized a kind of process art, for example by exhibiting lead that had been shaped by throwing. In 1969 he created his object "Casting" in this way. From 1968 onwards, Serra made monumental sculptures from steel and iron. He also worked in the techniques of printmaking, drawing, video and film.
In 1970, Richard Serra was approved for a Guggenheim Fellowship. Five years later, in 1975, he was awarded the "Sculpture Award" from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The themes of his large steel and iron sculptures are mass and heaviness. The metal plates, which weigh several tons and are many meters high, are combined in such a way that they remain in balance largely through their arrangement and without additional anchoring. Serra succeeds in positioning his art objects based on the most precise calculations. The laws of physics such as balance and gravity are not only the central theme of his sculptural works of art, but are also part of the art objects themselves. The metal plates, which are up to 17 meters high, cause the viewer to weigh up the risk and feelings in their apparent lightness and in view of the lack of fastening systems Uncertainty. With these compositions, Richard Serra orients himself more towards architectural designs. He consults engineers and fitters to create his monumental sculptures. His area of activity extends far beyond his studio.
In 1976 and 1977 he installed the "Terminal" object in Bochum. The artist's sculptures create an ambivalent relationship to their surroundings. Firstly, in terms of size and shape, they have a rather harmonious relationship with their surroundings, in such a way that new experiences are opened up in the otherwise familiar location. On the other hand, the artist intends to create a contradiction to the surroundings with his art of large sculptures. This involves change and the creation of your own environment. The artist describes his artwork in this regard as "anti-decorative". The overall work of art is editorial and the arrangement of the individual elements, which creates an emotional effect on the viewer, appears massive. However, Serra's monumental sculptures were controversial when they were presented in public.
In 1989, the New York City Council even had the Tilted Arc object torn down. His work is free from any political or social themes. In 1991 the artist settled in New York. In 1998 he withdrew from the competition for the planned Holocaust memorial in Berlin. In 2002 he was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite. In 2005, the expansive walk-in installation "The Matter of Time" was created for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The work is one of the largest sculptural commissions ever developed for a specific space in the history of modernism. The walk-in installation of seven monumental steel sculptures, some weighing around 40 tons, create sculptures that appear light and playful. In 2012 Serra became a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2014 he was awarded the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize in Wiesbaden.BFA MFA 1964; sculptor.- Robert A.M. Stern was born on 23 May 1939 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for New York: A Documentary Film (1999), Deconstructivist Architects (1990) and Mies (1986).M. Arch 1965; architect, current dean at Yale School of Architecture.
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Garry Trudeau was born on 21 July 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for A Doonesbury Special (1977), Tanner '88 (1988) and Alpha House (2013). He has been married to Jane Pauley since 14 June 1980. They have three children.BA 1970; MFA 1973; Doonesbury cartoonist.- Composer
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Marc Trujillo is known for El Mariachi (1992).MFA 1994; painter.