with Bonnie Clearwater, Dorothy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons on Jan 7, 2002
with Jeff Koons on Aug 7, 2000
Jeff Koons is an American contemporary artist and sculptor. He is noted for his use of kitsch imagery, sometimes in sculptural form and extremely large in size.
Koons attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and studied painting. After college he worked as a Wall Street commodities broker, whilst establishing himself as an artist. He gained recognition in the 1980s, and subsequently set up a factory-like studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York. This had over 30 staff, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work?in a similar mode to both Andy Warhol’s Factory and many Renaissance artists.
Koons’ work is classified as Neo-Pop or Post-Pop, as part of an 80s movement in reaction to the pared-down art of Minimalism and Conceptualism in the previous decade. Although the use of commercial imagery is a starting point, some also see the incorporation of some of the Conceptual approach which implies an irony. Koons denies this: “A viewer might at first see irony in my work… but I see none at all.
