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Brian King

Brian King (1942 - 2017) was active/lived in New York / Ireland.  Brian King is known for Modular, geometric artwork, minimalism and large-scale sculpture, land art, teaching.

Born in Dublin in 1942, Brian King studied at the National College of Art and Design and graduated in 1963. Following his studies King spent formative periods in London and New York, both of which were then epicentres of cutting edge-art and countercultural activity.

In 1968 King returned to Ireland and presented his first solo exhibition at Dublins Dawson Gallery. The decade that followed was an incredibly fruitful and frenetic period for King. It was during this phase that he espoused and experimented with a variety of different approaches and methods, all of which demonstrated his awareness of developments taking place in the visual arts internationally.

In 1969 King represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale and became the first Irish artist to win the major individual prize. The modular geometric work exhibited by King in Paris demonstrated his proclivity toward the vocabulary of Minimalism, which he would have undoubtedly encountered first hand during his time i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3855 characters.]  Artist bio

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