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American, 1931-2020

Although Conceptual artist John Baldessari is best known for the richly provocative juxtapositions of photographic images and text that characterize his prints and paintings, he actually had something of a traditional art world upbringing — if such a thing exists.

Born in Southern California, Baldessari earned several art degrees, from art education to art history to painting. He also taught art at various institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts throughout his life. Among his many students were David Salle, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. While helping to shape the art world in Los Angeles, he simultaneously developed his own name as an artist.

In the 1950s, Baldessari’s works were primarily semiabstract paintings, but during the late 1960s, he began to distance himself from painting, as he bristled at the idea of limiting art to a single medium. Baldessari decided to take his career in a dramatically different direction. He burned all his paintings at a funeral home in San Diego, then incorporated the ashes into cookie dough, producing (nonedible) baked goods for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

“It was a very public and symbolic act,” he said, “like announcing you’re going on a diet in order to stick to it.”

From that point on, Baldessari took on an MO of experimentation, dabbling in mediums from video to printmaking to sculpture. “I just stare at something and say: Why isn’t that art? Why couldn’t that be art?” he said in an interview in 2008.

The works for which Baldessari is most highly regarded, however, are striking collages of images and text — many of which are seemingly nonsensical — such as Tom’s Hand Grips the Steering, Wheel… (2015), in which the title’s text is displayed beneath a hippopotamus. As such is his body of work: bringing a sense of joviality to the sometimes too-serious world of Conceptual art.

Before he died in 2020, Baldessari was honored with the 2014 National Medal of Arts Award, the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and more.

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Artist: John Baldessari
Object (with Flaw)
Object (with Flaw)

Object (with Flaw)

By John Baldessari

Located in New York, NY

Color lithograph in two parts, on two separate sheets of Arches 88 paper, these two sheets comprise two of the four parts of the original "Object (with Flaw)" publication, 1988. One...

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I Have an Elephant
I Have an Elephant

I Have an Elephant

By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: I Have an Elephant Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5...

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Best Men
Best Men

Best Men

By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Best Men Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 71.1 cm...

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Adam Wasn't Into It
Adam Wasn't Into It

Adam Wasn't Into It

By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Adam Wasn't Into It Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82....

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Yogurt
Yogurt

Yogurt

By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Yogurt Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 71.1 cm) ...

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Hero, 2017 Screenprint in Colors on Archival Pigment Print by John Baldessari
Hero, 2017 Screenprint in Colors on Archival Pigment Print by John Baldessari

Hero, 2017 Screenprint in Colors on Archival Pigment Print by John Baldessari

By John Baldessari

Located in Miami, FL

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: John Baldessari Hero 2017 Screenprint in colors on archival pigment print 30 x 22 in. Edition of 56/65 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This work is in ...

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Triad
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By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Triad Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 71.1 cm) C...

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Truffle Butter
Truffle Butter

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By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Truffle Butter Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 7...

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Life's Balance (With Money), 1989-90 Etching and Aquatint by John Baldessari
Life's Balance (With Money), 1989-90 Etching and Aquatint by John Baldessari

Life's Balance (With Money), 1989-90 Etching and Aquatint by John Baldessari

By John Baldessari

Located in Miami, FL

John Baldessari Life's Balance (with Money) 1989-90 Etching, aquatint and photogravure in colors, on irregularly shaped Somerset paper 51 x 42 3/4 in. Edition of 45 Pencil signed and...

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