San Francisco Art Institute Faculty

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Ansel Adams, Angela Davis, Kathy Acker, Dorothea Lange, Bruce Nauman, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Wally Hedrick, Ralph Stackpole, Lydia Lunch, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jane McGonigal, Howard Fried, Ren e Green, Leo Lentelli, Blixa Bargeld, Leslie Scalapino, Leo Valledor, Roy Ascott, Minor White, Okwui Enwezor, Imogen Cunningham, Charlemagne Palestine, George Kuchar, Arthur Frank Mathews, Felipe Dulzaides, Henry Wessel, Jr., Pirkle Jones, Frederick Meyer, Sidney Peterson, Griff Williams, Sharon Grace, Trisha Donnelly, Linda Connor, Hou Hanru, Christopher Bratton. Excerpt: Wally Bill Hedrick (1928 in Pasadena, California - December 17, 2003 in Bodega Bay, California) was a seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator who came to prominence in the early 1960s. Hedrick's contributions to art include pioneering artworks in psychedelic light art, mechanical kinetic sculpture, junk/assemblage sculpture, Pop Art, and (California) Funk Art. Later in his life, he was a recognized forerunner in Happenings, Conceptual Art, Bad Painting, Neo-Expressionism, and image appropriation. Hedrick was also a key figure in the first important public manifestation of the Beat Generation when he helped to organize the Six Gallery Reading, and created the first artistic denunciation of American foreign policy in Vietnam. Wally Hedrick was known as an "idea artist" long before the label "conceptual art" entered the art world, and experimented with innovative use of language in art, at times resorting to puns. Wally Hedrick came out of the military and car culture, first glimpsing the liberating promise of San Francisco bohemia in the late 1940s, then moving to the city permanently after seeing combat in the Korean War (1950-1953). Hedrick visited California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Ar...