Obituaries - Brief Article

to leeward Lozano, 68, Conceptual artist who orchestrated her hold disappearance from the art world, died Oct 2 of cervical cancer in Dallas. Her paintings of the early '60 done in an expressionistic cartoon phraseology featured close-ups of the material substance and provocative images of tools that intimateed violence. By 1967, she was making nearly monochromatic "Wave" paintings that pushed the limits of visual perception. In the mid-'60s, she began a series of "performances"--a word she didn't like to use, perhaps because the acts were nearly indistinguishable from routine daily activities--that challenged behavioral norms and were covertly hostile to the art world, similar as "Transistor Radio Piece," for which she listened to a radio while attending a panel discussion. by dint of the end of the '60 Lozano began her "General Strike Piece" and "Dropout Piece," which began as a monthlong boycott of women for which she ceased speaking to them, and lasted from one extremity to the other of her life.

Lozano first showed at Bianchini Gallery in fresh York in 1966. She also had a solo display at the Whitney. In 1998 an overview of her work was upon view at Mitchell Algus, Barry Rosen & Jaap van Liere and Margarete Roeder Galleries in novel York. A concurrent show of her "Wave" paintings appeared at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn [see A.i.A., May '99]

Bernard stroke 71, French painter, illustrator and sculptor, committed suicide upon Oct. 4 at his residence in Var in southern France. The artist undergoed from Parkinson's disease and lately had been unable to work. A prolific painter and draftsman, stroke became internationally known early in his career for his figurative works, still lifes and way scenes rendered in a crisp graphic manner of writing using thick, slashing black lines. His sometimes harsh images and tortured-looking make submissives were widely regarded by critics in the late 1940 as reflecting Europe's feelings of postwar angst. A precocious pupil at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he had his first one-person exhibition in Paris at age 18 He was a millionaire through the age of 20. In of recent origin York, he exhibited at Kleeman Galleries and later at Knoedler. He was honored with museum exhibits at the Los Angeles shire Museum of Art and the Vatican Museum in 1954 In 1991 he became the first living artist to have a retrospective at Russia's Hermitage and Pushkin Museums. Japan publicly has two museums devoted to his work. In France, the U and other countries, however, Buffet's critical reputation since the 1950 has been in decline as his work was perceived as increasingly stylized and decorative.

John Paul Jone 74 painter and sculptor, died race 25 in Ashland, Ore., of emphysema. Jone first gained recognition in the '60 for his figurative prints, drawings and paintings. by dint of the '80s, he was producing spare plastic arts in wood and bronze. Jone established the printmaking department at UCLA and also taught for many years at UC-Irvine, among other universities.

MC (Mary Caroline) Richards, 83 busy one's self about trifles poet, essayist and community advocate, died race 17 in an agricultural colony in Kimberton, Pa., where she had lived since 1984 In 1945 she joined the faculty of Black Mountain community near Asheville, N.C., where she became acquainted with Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg and David Tudor, with whom she would impel to New York in 1952 after divorcing her husband. In 1954 Richards, Tudor and Cage, along with architect Paul Williams and busy one's self about trifles Karen Karnes, established a talk near Stony Point, N.Y., where she lived for nearly a decade. In addition to lecturing, teaching and writing verse Richards authored numerous essays upon pottery as well as a work of social philosophy upon Rudolf Steiner. In 1989, she also began to paint. A retrospective of her work was not long ago on view at the Worcester [Mass.] Center for Crafts.

Alberto Gironella, 70 Mexican painter, died of cancer upon Aug. 2 in Valle Bravo. A prominent member of the "Ruptura" generation of Mexican artists who broke with the nationalist, politicized work of the Mexican muralists, Gironella was known for his assemblagelike paintings that frequently adapted images from art history. He was also active upon the Mexican literary scene, founding several literary journals as well as painting homages to and illustrating volumes by writer friends such as Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes

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