High Performance magazine records, 1953-2005

Raven, Arlene

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Arlene Raven (Arlene Rubin: July 12, 1944, Baltimore, Maryland – August 1, 2006, Brooklyn, New York) was a feminist art historian, author, critic, educator, and curator. Raven was a co-founder of numerous feminist art organizations in Los Angeles in the 1970s....

Edelson, Mary Beth

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Gomez-Pena, Guillermo

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Durland, Steven

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Burnham, Linda Frye

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McCarthy, Paul, 1945-....

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Paul McCarthy received his B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, and his M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. McCarthy was an influential figure in performance art, beginning his career in the 1970s. From the description of Cultural soup [videorecording] / Paul McCarthy. [1987] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 710693551 From the description of Family tyranny [videorecording] / Paul McCarthy. [1987] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat reco...

Lacy, Suzanne

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Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an American artist, educator, writer, and professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. She has worked in a variety of media, including installation, video, performance, public art, photography, and art books, in which she focuses on "social themes and urban issues." She served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, California, and as arts commissioner for the city. She designed multiple educational programs beginning with her role as p...

Rosenthal, Rachel, 1926-2015

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Rachel Rosenthal (November 9, 1926 – May 10, 2015) was an interdisciplinary and performance artist, teacher, actress, and animal rights activist based in Los Angeles. She was best known for her full-length performance art pieces which offered unique combinations of theatre, dance, creative slides and live music. She was a leading figure in the L.A. Women's Art Movement in the 1970s and co-founded the Womanspace Gallery, a cooperatively run gallery devoted to work by female artists, in 1973. Sh...

Nitsch, Hermann, 1938-....

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SubGenius Foundation

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Abramovic, Marina

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Vallance, Jeffrey

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Jeffrey Karl Reese Vallance (born January 25, 1955 in Redondo Beach, California) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Best known for projects that blur the lines between object-making, installation, performance, curation and anthropological study....

Peppe, Michael

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Henes, Donna

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Burden, Chris, 1946-....

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Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-

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Carolee Schneemann actively engaged in performance art, experimental film-making, the Fluxus movement and feminist theory in the 1960s-1970s. The artist is best known for the provocative use of her nude body to explore personal expression, sexual taboos and feminism in both multi-media performances and solo improvisational work. Born in 1939, Schneemann studied painting at the University of Illinois and Bennington College in the late-1950s. Her performance work evolved out of a desir...

Kaprow, Allan

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Allan Kaprow, Painter, educator of Pasadena, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Allan Kaprow, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657039358 From the description of Allan Kaprow interview, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186948 Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) was a painter and educator from Pasadena, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Allan Kaprow, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Gronk 1954-....

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Gronk (1954- ) is an artist from California. Gronk, whose full name is Glugio Gronk Nicandro, was born in Los Angeles in 1954. As a member of the 1970s activist performance group, Asco (nausea), with Harry Gamboa, Jr., Patssi Valdez, and Willie Herron, Gronk arranged anti-war protests and painted graffiti murals. From the description of Oral history interview with Gronk, 1997 Jan. 20-23 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79640744 ...

Apple, Jacki

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Jacki Apple is a visual, performance and media artist, writer, producer, and a professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her career has spanned through a range of the visual and media arts. She has written, directed and produced interdisciplinary performance works, worked in costume design, composed and produced soundtracks, created multimedia installations, and worked with mediums of photography, audio, radio, film, site specific works, public art, and beyo...

High Performance

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During its quarterly run from 1978-1997, High performance magazine documented the progressive art world. Founded as a magazine covering performance art, the publication gradually shifted editorial focus first to include all new and experimental art, and then to activism and community-based art. From the description of High performance magazine records 1953-2003. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84655198 Biographical/Historical Note...

Bob & Bob

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Buchanan, Nancy, 1946-

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Nancy Buchanan (b. Nancy Page Ridenour, Aug. 30, 1946, Boston, MA) is an artist best known for her work in installation, performance, and video art. She played a central role in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Her father was physicist Louis Ridenour. Buchanan earned her B.A. and M.F.A. at the University of California, Irvine and studied with Larry Bell, Vija Celmins, David Hockney, and Robert Irwin. Buchanan has made videos and performances that combine the personal and t...

Seemayer, Stephen, 1954-

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Dakin, Susanna

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Jones, Kim, 1944-....

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Smith, Barbara Turner, 1931-

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Barbara Turner Smith (b. 1931, Pasadena, CA) is known for her work – painting, drawing, installation, video, performance, and artists’ book – explores concepts that strikes at the core of human nature, including male and female sexualities, physical and spiritual sustenance, ecology, technology, and death. Smith studied at attended Pomona College, the Chouinard Art Institute and the University of California, Irvine. Along with Nancy Buchanan and Chris Burden, she founded F-Space....