Barbara Kruger

Identification: Barbara Kruger
Date of Birth: 1945
Home Town: Newark, New Jersey
Location of Art Practice: New York // Los Angeles
Education: Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts & Parson's School of Design in New York. She has taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Message: 

Barbara Kruger is an intelligent artist with a powerful message behind each piece of art. "Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, although her black-and-white images are culled from the mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing," (Biography, www.barbarakruger.com). Unlike others, Barbara Kruger not only creates art for the eyes, but also for the mind and power of change. Many of her pieces serve as advice and lessons that are direct and straight forward. One example is her piece "Get Out" regarding domestic violence::

Vehicle/Medium:
Kruger is well known for her layering and collage photographs. She mixes and layers found photographs with powerful and most of the time, aggressive, text. She  uses her trademark bold letters (black or white) against a red box to portray her message.
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Favorite Quote: 
"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary." Barbara Kruger

Official Twitter Account: @Barbarakruger