Douglas Huebler

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Douglas Huebler
Born(1924-10-27)October 27, 1924
Ann Arbor, Michigan
DiedJuly 12, 1997(1997-07-12) (aged 72)
Truro, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Michigan
Known forConceptual art

Douglas Huebler (October 27, 1924 – July 12, 1997) was an American

conceptual artist
.

Life and career

Douglas Huebler grew up in rural Michigan during the Depression and served in the Marines in World War II. After the war, funded by the GI Bill, Huebler earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Michigan, and later went on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. He worked for several years as a commercial art illustrator in New York as he established himself as an artist. (His family still has a few of the illustrations from this period.)

Initially a painter, Huebler moved on to produce geometric

0 to 9 magazine
, an avant-garde journal which experimented with language and meaning-making.

Huebler subsequently started producing works in numerous media often involving

De Chirico.[1]

Huebler's academic career spanned more than forty years; he taught art at Bradford College in Massachusetts, and at Harvard. Huebler served as dean of the art school at

California Institute of Arts from 1976 to 1988 where he influenced a generation of artists including Mike Kelley[2] and Christopher Williams.[3] In 1989, he retired to Cape Cod. He died in Truro, Massachusetts in 1997.[4][5]

Exhibitions

Huebler's first one-person museum exhibition was at the Phillips Gallery, Detroit, in 1953. Thereafter, he exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, as well as in international exhibitions such as

Camden Arts Centre,[6] London (2002) and the MAMCO, Geneva (2006). In 2004, Huebler's work was included in the exhibition, A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958–1968, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[7]

References

  1. ^ Suzanne Muchnic (June 1, 1988), Huebler Adds Words to His Varied Palette Los Angeles Times.
  2. ^ Finkel, Jori (February 2, 2012). "Mike Kelley dies at 57; L.A. contemporary artist". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ^ Boucher, Brian (July 3, 2012). "Christopher Williams Exhibition Will Hit Art Institute, MoMA". Art in America. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013.
  4. ^ Smith, Roberta (July 17, 1997). "Douglas Huebler, 72, Conceptual Artist". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Reich, Kenneth (July 15, 1997). "Douglas Huebler; Helped Start Conceptualism". Los Angeles Times.
  6. ^ "Douglas Huebler".
  7. ^ Douglas Huebler: Crocodile Tears, March 3 - April 28, 2012 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

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