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American, 1931-2020

Although Conceptual artist John Baldessari is best known for the richly provocative juxtapositions of photographic images and text that characterize his prints and paintings, he actually had something of a traditional art world upbringing — if such a thing exists.

Born in Southern California, Baldessari earned several art degrees, from art education to art history to painting. He also taught art at various institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts throughout his life. Among his many students were David Salle, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. While helping to shape the art world in Los Angeles, he simultaneously developed his own name as an artist.

In the 1950s, Baldessari’s works were primarily semiabstract paintings, but during the late 1960s, he began to distance himself from painting, as he bristled at the idea of limiting art to a single medium. Baldessari decided to take his career in a dramatically different direction. He burned all his paintings at a funeral home in San Diego, then incorporated the ashes into cookie dough, producing (nonedible) baked goods for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

“It was a very public and symbolic act,” he said, “like announcing you’re going on a diet in order to stick to it.”

From that point on, Baldessari took on an MO of experimentation, dabbling in mediums from video to printmaking to sculpture. “I just stare at something and say: Why isn’t that art? Why couldn’t that be art?” he said in an interview in 2008.

The works for which Baldessari is most highly regarded, however, are striking collages of images and text — many of which are seemingly nonsensical — such as Tom’s Hand Grips the Steering, Wheel… (2015), in which the title’s text is displayed beneath a hippopotamus. As such is his body of work: bringing a sense of joviality to the sometimes too-serious world of Conceptual art.

Before he died in 2020, Baldessari was honored with the 2014 National Medal of Arts Award, the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and more.

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Artist: John Baldessari
Best Men
By John Baldessari
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Best Men Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 71.1 cm...
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Triad
By John Baldessari
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Triad Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 71.1 cm) C...
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Four Hands and a Baseball Bat, 2015 Print by John Baldessari
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
This is a black and white archival inkjet print on Canson Infinity paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist, John Baldessari. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Lincoln Cent...
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I Have an Elephant
By John Baldessari
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: I Have an Elephant Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5...
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Adam Wasn't Into It
By John Baldessari
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Adam Wasn't Into It Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82....
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Yogurt
By John Baldessari
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Yogurt Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 71.1 cm) ...
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Truffle Butter
By John Baldessari
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Truffle Butter Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 7...
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Life's Balance (with Money)
By John Baldessari
Located in Miami, FL
John Baldessari Life's Balance (with Money) 1989-90 Etching, aquatint and photogravure in colors, on irregularly shaped Somerset paper 51 x 42 3/4 in. Edition of 45 Pencil signed and...
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Rollercoaster
By John Baldessari
Located in Miami, FL
John Baldessari Rollercoaster 1989-90 Color aquatint and photogravure on Somerset paper 38 3/4 x 67 1/4 in. P.P. (Printer's Proof) Pencil signed and numbered
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Hero
By John Baldessari
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: John Baldessari Hero 2017 Screenprint in colors on archival pigment print 30 x 22 in. Edition of 56/65 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This work is in ...
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