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"I'd seen that face before. Was it Macao? Bombay? Des Moines? Was it her wedding? Birthday? Shower? "Excusez moi. Comment vous appelez-vous? Louella? Albertine?
Rhona?"
Robert Kushner is a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement in American art. In his early career, he participated in solo and group performance art, featuring costumes Kushner created; some of his influences, which include Matisse, O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuch, Qi Baishi, and Wu Changshuo, can clearly be seen in this work. He introduced himself to the New York art scene in 1972 with a performance entitled Robert Kushner and Friends Eat Their Clothes. His monumental mosaic murals can be seen at the 77th/Lexington Avenue Subway, and at Danny Meyer's Gramercy Tavern in New York City; at the Federal Reserve, Washington D.C.; and at the new Raleigh-Durham International Airport. He's been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney and at the Brooklyn Museum, included in the Whitney Biennial three times and twice at the Venice Biennale, and a mid-career retrospective was organized by the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.
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