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    Leading Contemporary Artists Donate Work to Raise Funds for the Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation  Sep 8, 2008
    Artists who will be donating their work include Vito Acconci, Rita Ackermann, John Alexander, Anthony Aziz & Sammy Cucher, John Baeder, Jennifer Bain, Sarah Baley, Michael Behle, Carlos Betancourt, Cecilia Biagini, Beth Block, Ilya Bolotowsky, Andrea Bonfils, Leslie Bostrom, Olaf Breuning, Romero Britto, Lawrie Brown, Ron Burkhardt, Dale Chihuly, Ron Church, Kris Cox, Ann Craven, Kasseem Dean, Jeff DeGolier, Coco Dolle, Michele Oka Doner, Diana Dopson, Peter Drake, Connie Fox, Peter Fox, JJ... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Place, perspective: Exhibitions by Jay Johnson, Raul Guerrero  Dec 21, 2007
    Johnson has also revived and refined a style of archetypal figure, with a body and faceless head that alludes to sci-fi sources, Bauhaus theater costumes, kachina dolls and and sculptures by post-minimalist Joel Shapiro. Johnson uses them to disturbingly hypnotic effect in Joiners, fusing an abundance of little people, covered in black flocking. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Good Ol' Charles Schulz  Oct 29, 2007
    Camera, Sandra Chandler, Joel Shapiro; editors, Juliet Weber, Mary Lampson; music, Teese Gohl. RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN.. (Variety)

    Dawn Clements draws viewers into her world  Oct 27, 2006
    Since the gallery's opening, its walls, floor and ceiling - such is the brilliantly schizophrenic nature of contemporary art - have been decked with work by the vanguard likes of hyper-realist Joel Shapiro, video artist Tony Oursler and New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren. Each exhibition explores new mediums, new subjects and new ways of looking at our world. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)

    Geometry in art is focus of museum exhibit  Jul 14, 2006
    The spare geometry of Minimalist Jewish sculptor Joel Shapiro is both figurative and abstract. His "Untitled three-part bronze sculpture suggests a human figure kicking its feet up or a ballet dancer leaping through the air. Lines, Waves and Fractals shows how even the most abstract thoughts and images might be represented in geometric terms through the phenomena of lines, waves, patterns and fractals, the last an arrangement of irregular lines.The zigzag motif in Ettore Sottsass's silver "Fruit... (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Edward R. Broida, 72; L.A. Real Estate Mogul Collected Contemporary Art  Apr 20, 2006
    Works by Price, Jake Berthot, Mark di Suvero, Joel Shapiro and John Walker are also included. "Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection," made up of more than 100 of the pieces, will be exhibited at the museum from May 3 to July 10. (Los Angeles Times)




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