1. John Currin was born on 1962 and is an American painter based in New York City.
10 Facts About John Currin
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John Currin went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he obtained a BFA in 1984, and received a MFA from Yale University in 1986.
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John Currin used magazines like Cosmopolitan along with old issues of Playboy for inspiration for his paintings.
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In 1992 John Currin moved to the Andrea Rosen Gallery, focusing, less sympathetically, on well-to-do middle-aged women.
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John Currin has had retrospective exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and is represented in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Tate Gallery.
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In 1994 John Currin met artist Rachel Feinstein at a gallery in which she was living in a self-made gingerbread house as a performance piece.
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John Currin has been described as his muse, which he says is "kinda corny".
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John Currin has scrutinised and emulated 16th century Northern European paintings.
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John Currin's inspirations come from Old Master portraits and pin-ups, nymphs, and ethereal feminine prototypes, as well as his muse and wife, Feinstein.
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John Currin's paintings hold conversation between the grotesque and the beautiful, and range inspiration from classical artists such as Fragonard and Bouchard to Rockwell and Crumb.