Ed Kienholz
1927 Born in Fairfield, Washington
1994 Died in Hope, Idaho
1953-73 Resident of Los Angeles

Nancy Reddin Kienholz
1943 Born in Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in Hope, Idaho; Houston, Texas and Berlin, Germany

full biography

 

Recent exhibitions
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
19 August - 30 March 2007
Hammer Building
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
www.lacma.org
 
Los Angeles-Paris: 1955-1985
Centre Pompidou
Paris France
8 March - 17 July 2006
www.centrepompidou.fr
(catalogue)

Kienholz
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
14 May - 29 August 2005
www.balticmill.com
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
16 December 2005 - 5 March 2006
www.mca.com.au

 

Publications
Kienholz: A Retrospective
Walter Hopps
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY, 1996

Tableau Drawings
1 March - 31 March 2001
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

The Merry-Go-World or Begat By Chance and The Wonder Horse Trigger
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
26 September - 24 October 1992

Kienholz
Louver Gallery, New York, NY
7 October - 11 November 1989

 

 

 

Exhibition
Kienholz
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Kienholz works available
1954 - 1972 >>
1972 - 1979
1980 - 1989

1990 - the present

Exhibition
Kienholz
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Kienholz works available
1954 - 1972
1972 - 1979
1980 - 1989

1990 - the present


Edward Kienholz
The Portable War Memorial, 1968
mixed media assemblage
22 1/4 x 33 1/8 x 3 in.

Untitled (abstract)
 

Untitled (wood relief)
 

Exodus
 

Yes, Jesus Loves Me
 

The Purple Box
 

American Girl
 

Flow Gently, Sweet Often
 

Lolli Pop Goes the Weasel
 

Mother Sterling Revisited

The Sky is Falling: Act One
 

The Blink, Blink Frog
 

The God Box #1
 

The God Box #2
 

The God Box #3
 

The World
 

Mayor Sam Edsel
 

After the Ball is Over #1
 

The American Trip
 

The Black Leather Chair
 

The Cement Store #1
 

The Cement Store #2
 

The Portable War Memorial
 

For a Fur Coat
 

Untitled
(drawing for the Marriage Icon series)
 
                                           
Concept Tableaux, 1963-1967 >>

“The life-size tableau, the form of art making that Kienholz chose to explore, was time-consuming, costly, and exhausting to produce. So by 1966, after his successful, if controversial, exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, he was employing a more cost-effective strategy, in theory.

In many ways the Concept Tableaux demonstrated sound business sense. Kienholz would draw up, and have prospective buyers sign, a contract for every tableau. Each work would be divided into three quite distinct and separate steps. For a set amount of money, interested buyers would be able to purchase only the proposal – a plaque with a detailed description of the work, signed by the artist. In the next step, if the buyer proceeded, the tableau would be realized in the form of a drawing for an additional sum of money. The third part of the contract would be the completion of the tableau. The buyer would be charged only for hourly wages and materials incurred by the artist.”

Quote by Rosetta Brooks taken from “Kienholz: A Retrospective.” Whitney Museum of American Art in association with D.A.P./Distributed Art Publisher, New York, 1996, p. 110.