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Tate Britain | Turner Prize History | Artists: Rachel Whiteread Whiteread's work is based on casts taken from commonplace objects, but they have a sense of mystery because she usually casts not the objects themselves, but the spaces above, below, or inside them, giving form to the apparently empty spaces we have inhabited. Rachel Whiteread was born in London in 1963. Whiteread was selected for her 'resonant sculptures of the spaces surrounding domestic objects and rooms,' as seen in her installation works shown at the Chisenhale Gallery, and her work House, publicly exhibited in collaboration with Artangel. www.tate.org.uk /britain/turnerprize/history/whiteread.htm   (0 words)

Rachel Whiteread - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. Many of Whiteread's works use ordinary domestic objects, and she has made several pieces which are plaster casts of the same which she says carry "the residue of years and years of use". Whiteread's casts often seem to emphasise the fact that the objects they represent are not themselves there, and critics have often regarded her work to be redolent of death and absence. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Rachel_Whiteread   (680 words)

Rachel Whiteread Rachel Whiteread gebruikt gebruiksvoorwerpen zoals een badkuip, een wastafel of een matras als mal om ze af te gieten in hun 'negatieve vorm'. Whiteread spreekt over de onzekerheid van de vorm in een cultuur die niet gemachtigd is de waarheid van de duisternis en het licht van het leven te verklaren. In de zalen van het Van Abbemuseum werd telkens een beperkt aantal van de monumentale gietvormen opgesteld die Rachel Whiteread bekomt door de binnenruimte van sanitaire installaties, matrasachtige objecten of architecturale elementen uit de huiselijke omgeving te materialiseren in plaaster, rubber of was. www.kunstbus.nl /verklaringen/rachel+whiteread.html   (1071 words)

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Postminimalism Examples of postminimalist work include pieces such as the Water-Tower by Rachel Whiteread: its interior is cast in clear resin, and it is displayed on the rooftop of a building in New York where the original tower stood. The work of Eva Hesse is also postminimalist: it uses "grids" and "seriality", themes often found in minimalism, but is also usually hand-made, introducing a human element into her art, so often missing in the machine or custom-made works of minimalism. Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts, and first woman to win the Turner Prize. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Postminimalism   (1974 words)

Rachel Whiteread Online Rachel Whiteread at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Whiteread was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1991, and won it in 1993 All images and text on this Rachel Whiteread page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted. www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/whiteread_rachel.html   (349 words)

Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts, and first woman to win the Turner Prize. Whiteread was born in London and raised in the Essex countryside, until aged seven, when the family returned to London. Rachel trained in painting in Brighton Polytechnic, was briefly at the Cyprus College of Art, and later studied sculpture at London's Slade School of Art. www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Rachel_Whiteread   (1898 words)

thegallerychannel Monument is Rachel Whiteread’s fourth major public work, after the Turner prize-winning House in 1993-4, her resin cast of a water tower in New York for the Public Art Fund, and the recently unveiled Holocaust Memorial in Vienna. Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture was funded by the artist, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London and Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York. Rachel Whiteread’s preparatory drawings for Monument are on display at Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 9 Dering Street from 4 June to 21 July. www.thegallerychannel.com /see.shtml?nav_page=see&see_page=ps_rele&tbl_ID=3780   (284 words)

Gallery - Judenplatz - Photos   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Rachel Whiteread's Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust at Judenplatz in Vienna. Rachel Whiteread's model and drawings for the Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust at Judenplatz in Vienna. Rachel Whiteread's model for the Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust at Judenplatz in Vienna. fcit.usf.edu /holocaust/RESOURCE/GALLERY/JP.HTM   (155 words)

Rachel Whiteread The sculpture of Rachel Whiteread is loaded with a type of preordained content that cross-references nearly every chapter of the Dictionary of Cultural Awareness. And conversely, although they make a bold attempt to be blithely unaware of their circumstances, and to achieve a kind of humility of presence--to be just what they are--what they are stretches out beyond the confines of these presumably marginal spaces to dislocate notions of nostalgia, memory, the body, and realism. If Whiteread is part of the British invasion, she is counter to her fellow Brits in one more important way: hers is more an act of self-colonizing than of pioneering frontier territory or throwing over existing tropes. www.zingmagazine.com /zing3/reviews/023_luhring.html   (0 words)

Rachel Whiteread | 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE Rachel Whiteread was born in London in 1963. Whiteread's first solo exhibition was held at the Carlyle Gallery, London, in 1988, the year after she graduated. In 1992-93 Rachel Whiteread worked in Berlin on the DAAD Artists' Programme, which afforded her time to develop her sculpture. www.sculpture.org.uk /biography/RachelWhiteread   (348 words)

Rachel Whiteread - Definition, explanation Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of castss. Many of Whiteread's works use ordinary domestic objects, and she has made several pieces which are plaster casts of the same which she says carry "the residue of years and years of use". Whiteread's casts often seem to emphasise the fact that the objects they represent are not themselves there, and critics have often regarded her work to be redolent of death and absence. www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/r/ra/rachel_whiteread.php   (723 words)

Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Rachel Whiteread The following year, the local council (Tower Hamlets) decided to demolish it, a decision which caused some controversy itself. Whiteread's work is often said by critics to be redolent of death and absence. Her casts seem to emphasise the fact that the objects they represent are not themselves there. www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ra/Rachel_Whiteread   (644 words)

Rachel Whiteread Rachel Whiteread first rose to public attention as part of the "YBA" (Young British Artist) movement in the late 80s that made stars of the likes of Damien Hirst. Whiteread's first solo exhibition was held at the Carlyle Gallery, London, in 1988, the year after she graduated. In 1992-93 Rachel Whiteread worked in Berlin on the DAAD Artists' Programme, which afforded her time to develop her sculpture. www.capefarewell.com /content/art-whiteread.php   (0 words)

ArtandCulture Artist: Rachel Whiteread   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Rachel Whiteread's extraordinary plaster cast of a house in East London challenges relationships with space. After using the frame of the home as a mold for the new structure, Whiteread removed the traditional exterior materials (wood, nails, glass) to reveal a new solid concrete object in the space and shape of the old domicile's interior. Her 1996 "Untitled (ten tables)" is a cast of the space underneath ten generic tables, while a 1990 "Untitled" sculpture of plaster and glass is a block-like object framing the outside of an ordinary bathtub. www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1171   (553 words)

Guggenheim Museum - Press Office - Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces, an exhibition of two new sculptures by British artist Rachel Whiteread, opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on March 8, 2002. Over the last twenty years, Rachel Whiteread has transformed ordinary domestic objects and architectural spaces into poetic sculptures that explore the relationship between memory, architecture, and the body; and the private and public realm. In the late 1980s, Whiteread began making sculptures by casting household fixtures and furniture, including wardrobes, beds, sinks, and baths, to create pieces which emphasize the private aspects of domestic life and reflect the human body in symbolic terms. www.guggenheim.org /press_releases/release_21.html   (826 words)

FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Rachel Whiteread Whiteread promises, when I go for the same dish, that these will be the best fish and chips I have ever tasted, and they are - a delectable mix of succulence and crispness. Whiteread admits that “fame comes with the territory, but I can be a bit grumbly about it;” she “still gets upset when I am misunderstood”. Whiteread never expected to win the commission - “I cried for two days when I got back to London [after presenting her idea],” she says - but once she won and the project was under way, she never entertained compromise. www.ft.com /cms/s/7e656524-a6be-11db-83e4-0000779e2340.html   (1567 words)

Rachel Whiteread Rachel Whiteread (* 1963 in London) ist eine englische Bildhauerin Rachel Whiteread goss 14.000 Pappkartons mit Polyethylen aus. Rachel Whiteread erhielt 1993 den britischen Turner Preis. www.weblexikon.de /Rachel_Whiteread.html   (412 words)

Damon Hildreth - Rachel Whiteread Whiteread creates objects that are redolent of a mirror world of strange traces of human life, the ghosts of our common existence. The power of Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures stem from its unconscious connection to our repressed fear of death in that they are the ghostlike manifestations of the hidden, discarded elements of our lives. Whiteread’s ghostlike mirror reversals of form found a powerful and very public manifestation in her 1993 sculpture “House” which won her the 1993 Turner Prize, an annual award given to the "Best British Artist of the Year" by the Tate Gallery. www.damonart.com /myth_uncanny.html   (0 words)

Still breaking the mould | | Guardian Unlimited Arts The ace Rachel Whiteread has been hiding up her sleeve for a year is a box of the common-or-garden cardboard variety. Whiteread was shortlisted for the Turner prize in 1991, and became the first woman to win it two years later. Whiteread was devastated by her mother's death, which happened to coincide with other major upheavals in her life: moving house, moving studio, the arrival of a son. www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1589344,00.html   (2313 words)

KUNSTHAUS BREGENZ Whiteread’s works are usually casts of the interior spaces of furniture or utility items such as mattresses,wardrobes, or bathtubs. Whiteread removed all “superfluous” objects from the space and concentrated on its purely architectonic form. Rachel Whiteread’s staircases thus call into question the credibility of our perception and embody both absurdity and impossibility. www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at /ehtml/aus_whiteread.htm   (645 words)

Rachel Whiteread > Project Info In this early, celebrated solo commission for Chisenhale Gallery, Rachel Whiteread made a plaster cast of an entire room. The new location transformed the associations of its subject: the large white walled gallery space raised the status of the room to that of a prized art object. Rachel Whiteread was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1991. www.chisenhale.org.uk /html/files/322_project_info.html   (179 words)

Art Exhibition Reviews - Rachel Whiteread's Monument at Trafalgar Square and show at the Serpentine Gallery Rachel Whiteread has finally secured her Monument on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of a series of public artworks on this location. Whiteread's claim that she doesn't have to execute large public works, and that the sale of her small pieces have funded this venture sounds very generous. Rachel Whiteread's Monument is on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square until May 2002. www.artbabyart.com /braveworld/Whiteread.htm   (1026 words)

Public Art Fund: Rachel Whiteread In bright sunlight the translucent resin became a beacon of refracted light, and at night the unlit sculpture disappeared against the darkened sky. Rachel Whiteread was born in London in 1963 and continues to live and work there. It was also made possible through the support of the Charles Engelhard Foundation, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Werner H. and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky, The Silverweed Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Challenge Initiative, and friends of the Public Art Fund. www.publicartfund.org /pafweb/projects/98/whiteread_98.html   (0 words)

ART IN REVIEW; Rachel Whiteread - New York Times Whiteread's latest work is a cast of a staircase with a double switchback, a kind of symmetrical T-shape with boxy vestibules at its three terminals. Whiteread had to cast it in parts, which were then assembled, with certain details like conduits and switches added for legibility. Whiteread seems to be moving toward the kind of sculpture that her previous work reacted against, which is considered, composed and arranged. query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E0DD1E31F932A15750C0A9659C8B63   (295 words)

Guggenheim Museum - Rachel Whiteread - The Exhibition The British artist Rachel Whiteread has received critical acclaim for creating a unique body of sculpture in which ordinary domestic objects and architectural spaces are transformed into poetic, thought-provoking works of art. In the late 1980s Whiteread began casting sculptures from household items including beds, sinks, baths, and wardrobes, emphasizing the private aspects of domestic life and reflecting the human body in symbolic terms. For Untitled (Basement), Whiteread cast a staircase, which she reoriented by setting it on its side, to create a sense of motion, such that the sculpture appears to bend and rise of its own will. www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/whiteread/exhibition_1.html   (466 words)

AE160D Unit 23: Rachel Whiteread However, British, neo-conceptual artist Rachel Whiteread, who was born in 1963, has devoted her career to these forgotten spaces. While many of Whiteread's plaster works are somber both aesthetically and conceptually, she has also created sculptures that are vibrantly colored and visually breathtaking. As many of Whiteread's sculptures are grim reminders of what is no longer, she also has the capacity to express that what remains is often beautiful. arted.osu.edu /160/23_Whiteread.php   (1015 words)

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