Michael Ashkin

Michael Ashkin is an American artist who makes sculptures, videos, photographs and installations depicting marginalized, desolate landscapes.[1] He is a professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.[2] Ashkin was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow.[3]

Ashkin is best known for his use of miniature scale and modest materials.[4] He had his first one-man show in 1996, and his floor sculpture called No. 49, was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial.[1] His work has been featured at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York,[5][4] the Renaissance Society in Chicago,[6] and in Documenta11 in Germany.[3]

Ashkin authored Garden State, a book which compares the New Jersey Meadowlands to a formal garden.[5] In 2014, A-Jump Books published Ashkin's Long Branch a book of photographs and text documenting the destruction of a New Jersey neighborhood.[7]

Ashkin was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1955, the son of Aline and Arthur Ashkin, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.[8] Before becoming an artist, he taught Arabic and received an M.A. in Middle East Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, and then worked as a computer programmer for investment banks.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gabriel, Trip (April 6, 1997). "Trafficking in Toxic Waste and Human Loneliness". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ "Michael Ashkin". Cornell AAP. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Michael Ashkin". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  4. 1 2 Cotter, Holland (June 10, 2005). "Art in Review; Andrea Zittel -- Michael Ashkin". The New York Times.
  5. 1 2 Cotter, Holland (February 25, 2000). "ART IN REVIEW; Michael Ashkin". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ "Watery, Domestic". The Renaissance Society. November 17, 2002. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  7. ↑ Shinkle, Eugenie (April 28, 2016). "Capitalism as a Bearer of the Uncanny: An Interview with Michael Ashkin". American Suburb X.
  8. ↑ Fleischman, Tom (October 2, 2018). "Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. '52, shares Nobel Prize in physics". Cornell Chronicle.


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