Thursday, November 7, 2024

Artist of the Day, November 7, 2024: Dennis Hopper, an American photographer, painter, actor, movie director (#2151)

 Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was born in Dodge City, Kansas, and died in Venice, California.

Though he is best known as the auteur of Easy Rider (1969) and as a prolific actor, with roles in some of the most iconic films of the 20th century, including Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Blue Velvet (1986), Dennis Hopper was also an active visual artist. Influenced by a range of actors and artists, including James Dean, Marcel Duchamp, and Andy Warhol, he produced paintings, assemblages, and hundreds of photographs in concentrated periods throughout his career. In the early 1960s, he was among the key figures in L.A.’s avant-garde art scene. Photography was central to his practice; from 1961-67, Hopper shot in California, New York, Alabama, and Mexico, amassing a body of black-and-white photographs ranging from street scenes to portraits of icons of the age, establishing a vision that would shape his acclaimed directorial work.

Before his rise to Hollywood stardom, he captured the establishment–busting spirit of the 1960s in photographs that travel from Los Angeles to Harlem to Tijuana, and which portray iconic figures including Tina Turner, Andy Warhol, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Exhibited at Gagosian New York in 2013, The Lost Album in its entirety comprises over 400 black and white photographs taken between 1961—when his first wife Brooke Hayward gave him a Nikon camera for his birthday—and 1967.

Recent solo exhibitions include “American Pictures 1961–1967,” MAK Center, Los Angeles (2000); “International Traveling Retrospective Exhibition,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2001, traveled to Mak Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna); “Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood,” Australian Centre For The Moving Image, Melbourne (2009); “Double Standard,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2010); “L.A. and Friends—Photographs from the 60's,” Art District, Le Royal Monceau, Paris (2011); “En el camino,” Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain (2013); “The Lost Album,” Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014); and “Part of Being an Artist: The Dennis Hopper Collection, Selected Artwork and Ephemera,” Hugh Hefner Exhibition Hall and Cinematic Arts Gallery, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles (2014). His photographs are included in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

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 Dennis Hopper
Rodeo, Texas, 1960s

Kissing Booth, 1961
Biker Couple, 1961
Arrow Market, 1961
Bill Cosby (Chateau Marmont), 1962
Double Standard, 1962
Andy Warhol with Flower, 1963
Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and David Goodman, 1963
Wallace Berman, 1963
Irving Blum and Jasper Johns, 1964
Irving Blum and Peggy Moffitt, 1964
James Rosenquist, 1964
Malibu, July 4th, 1964
Paul Newman, Malibu 1964
Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio, 1964
Roy Lichtenstein, 1964
Dean Stockwell, 1964-2009
Ed Ruscha, 1964
Brian Jones, 1965
Ike and Tina Turner, 1965
Jane Fonda (target practice beach) Malibu, 1965
Jane Fonda with Target, 1965
John Wayne and Dean Martin, 1965
Marche pour les droits civils, Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965
Martin Luther King Jr., 1965
Selma, Alabama (Full Employment), 1965
Torn Poster (Elect), 1965
Model and mob mistress Leon Bing, 1966
Woman with veil, 1988
Alessandra Ambrosio, 2008  Elle Magazine

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