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Rebecca Warren
Rebecca Warren
Cube, 2003
© The Artist
courtesy Maureen Paley, London
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Rebecca Warren's work challenges the status of sculpture. Fashioned
from unfired clay, her exuberant female forms question assumptions
about the use of material and our understanding of the figurative ideal.
Warren draws from a variety of sources, from books, photographs
in magazines and popular culture.
She openly acknowledges her references which range from Edgar Degas
to fashion photographer Helmut Newton and cartoonist Robert Crumb.
As the artist explains 'Its about finding a way to be expressive… One way
of negotiating this is to re-use existing idioms that are… for instance
Auguste Rodin, Willem de Kooning or Otto Dix'.
Rebecca Warren
Installation View © Tate 2006
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Rebecca Warren
Installation View © Tate 2006
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Rebecca Warren
Installation View © Tate 2006
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Rebecca Warren
Installation View © Tate 2006
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Rebecca Warren
Installation View © Tate 2006
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Rebecca Warren
Cube 2006
Bronze, MDF and wheels
Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley
Installation View © Tate 2006
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Biography
Born in 1965 in London
1992–1993 Chelsea College of Art, London
1989–1992 Goldsmiths College, University of London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2005
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Pas de Deux, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
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2004
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Dark Passage, Kunsthalle Zurich
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2003
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Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
SHE, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
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2000
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The Agony and the Ecstasy, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2005
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Drunk & Stoned, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery Touring
Translations, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery
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2004
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Sculpture, Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical, Kunsthalle Vienna
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Lives and works in London
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