Jane Kaufman was an American artist who was affiliated with the Pattern and Decoration movement.
13 Facts About Jane Kaufman
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Jane Kaufman was a member of the art group Guerrilla Girls.
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Jane Kaufman was born in New York City to Herbert Kaufman, an advertising executive, and Roslyn Kaufman.
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In 1972, Kaufman got a job teaching at Bard College, making her one of their first women professors.
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Jane Kaufman began her career in the early 1970s as a minimalist painter of large canvases.
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Jane Kaufman had a solo show at the Whitney museum in 1971 and took part in the 1973 Whitney Biennial, drawing praise from critic Hilton Kramer.
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Jane Kaufman went on to work with decorative motifs in her work as well as decorative materials such as embroidery and other forms of sewing, feathers, and beads.
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Unlike some artists in what became known as the Pattern and Decoration movement, Jane Kaufman's pioneering work in this genre often had a feminist edginess.
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Jane Kaufman was a member of the Second Wave feminist art group Guerrilla Girls and was one of the few members of that group to use her own name rather than remain anonymous.
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In 1978, Jane Kaufman curated the first Pattern and Decoration group exhibition at Alessandra Gallery in New York.
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Jane Kaufman was awarded both the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship and grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Jane Kaufman's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others.
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Jane Kaufman's image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.