Dennis Oppenheim

1938–2011

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Biography

Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the nature of art, the making of art and the definition of art: a meta-art which arose when strategies of the Minimalists were expanded to focus on site and context. As well as an aesthetic agenda, the work progressed from perceptions of the physical properties of the gallery to the social and political context, largely taking the form of permanent public sculpture in the last two decades of a highly prolific career, whose diversity could exasperate his critics.

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Artworks

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Dennis Oppenheim Parallel Stress

1970

Dennis Oppenheim Salt Flat

1968

Dennis Oppenheim Directed Seeding - Cancelled Crop

1969

Dennis Oppenheim Directed Harvest

1966

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Dennis Oppenheim The Diamond Cutter’s Wedding

1980

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Dennis Oppenheim Life Support System for a Premature By-Product (from a Long Distance)

1981

Dennis Oppenheim Reverse Processing, Cement Transplant, East River, NY, 1970

1978

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Artist as subject

Sir William Orpen The Mirror

1900

Dennis Oppenheim Parallel Stress

1970

Dennis Oppenheim Salt Flat

1968

Film and audio

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Dennis Oppenheim

Dennis Oppenheim's practice includes actions, performances, installations, sculptures, film and architecture. Seminal early works include a field harvested in ...