Elliot Lessing's Page

Website

www.cocanow.org

Relationship status

single

College / University

San Francisco Art Institute

Program

Interdisciplinary Studies

Member type

Artist, Curator, Gallery, Non-Profit, Producer, Other

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Event, Installation, Performance, Photography, Sculpture, Video

I am...

Contemporary Arts Professional, Curator, Interdisciplinary Artist, Cultural Engineer

About my artwork

I produce project-based cultural programming that energizes personal experience of public space, while creating new precincts of art, community, and knowledge.

My goal is to renew a sense of meaningful connectivity to the world around us. I do this by launching original living projects that combine a colorful array of cultural information, visual art, and community resources. Many of my projects include Contemporary Artists from around the globe, and may involve participants or forms existing outside of the arts field. The results provide an interdisciplinary art experience that is participatory, challenging, and accessible to wide audiences.

Through a nexus of innovative artistic strategies and expanded educational resources, I am able to inspire community involvement, spark person-to-person dialogue, and broaden cultural awareness of a myriad of possibilities regarding art and public life.

Elliot Lessing, Contemporary Arts Professional

Artists I like

Tim Hawkinson, Tracey Moffatt, Andy Warhol, Roni Horn, Rebecca Horn, Yves Klein, William Klein, Robert Frank, Sally Mann, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Jeff Koons, Sophie Calle, Wallace Berman, David Hockney, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Douglas Gordon, Vitto Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Christopher Wool, Isamu Naguchi, Mark Dion, Courtney Smith, Gary Hill, Franz Marc, Robert Longo, Anselm Keifer, Hans Belmer, Judy Chicago, Kim Weller, Laura Splan, Ellen Lake, Jason Robert Bell, Max Ernst, Anish Kapoor, Alfredo Jaar, Jan Fabre, Gregory Crewdson, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Cai Guo-Qiang, Martin Kippenberger, Mario Merz, An-My Le, Orlan, Ivan Albright, Marc Quinn, George Kuchar, Maya Deren, Rose Lawder, Kenneth Anger, Martin Arnold, Trin T. Minh-ha, Marie Menken, Shirley Clarke, Chris Marker, Man Ray, John Wesley, Shomei Tomatsu, Juan Munoz, Yoko Ono, Ron Mueck, Wolfgang Laib, Wim T. Shippers, Bob & Roberta Smith, Alex Katz, Chuck Close, William Kentridge, Dale Hoyt, Glenn Brown, George Kuchar, Teri Claude Dowling, Ellen Babcock, Hew Locke, Juan Pablo Echeverri Muñoz

Interests

Contemporary Art, Interdisciplinary Projects/Philosophy, Paper-based Printed Materials & Ephemera, Paul Rand Design, Push Pin Studios Design, Baking, Film, Fiction (The Novel), Creative Civic Action, Community-building, Oddball Collections, MAD Magazine, Visionary Architecture, Los Angeles, New York, Public Art, Nature, Cities, Experiencing Art in de-insitutionalized settings, Bigfoot, UFOs, Documentary Film, Photography, New Yorker Magazine, Old Classic TV, The New York Times, Wacky Packs, Claymation, eating, dining with friends, listening to a rare bootleg CD, mailing postcards, alternative art spaces, museums, galleries, libraries, Nature, Don Rickles, Phyllis Diller, Garage Sales, Swap Meets

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Jekyll Island at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles

The centre of the artworld is

New York, London, LA, nowhere and everywhere

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