About the Artist
John Baldessari
John Baldessari (1931-) is an American conceptual artist most known for his work featuring found photography. He has worked in painting, printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture and photography, namely with an infused quality of a concept which drives the work, as opposed to a focus on the medium or the process. He makes use of the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language, and is the creator of the graphic sensation involving colored dots on top of faces in found photographs. His point of view is often characterized by visual critiques of formalist assessments of art and of common opinions that attack, denounce or pigeonhole art.
