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Dennis Oppenheim

1938–2011

Parallel Stress 1970
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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 that 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 The Diamond Cutter’s Wedding

    1980
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  • Dennis Oppenheim Salt Flat

    1968
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    Dennis Oppenheim Life Support System for a Premature By-Product (from a Long Distance)

    1981
  • Dennis Oppenheim Directed Harvest

    1966
  • Dennis Oppenheim Reverse Processing, Cement Transplant, East River, NY, 1970

    1978
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  • Dennis Oppenheim Directed Seeding - Cancelled Crop

    1969
  • Dennis Oppenheim Parallel Stress

    1970

Artist as subject

  • Sir William Orpen The Mirror

    1900
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
  • Dennis Oppenheim Salt Flat

    1968
  • Dennis Oppenheim Parallel Stress

    1970

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