Christy Rupp

Christy Rupp (born 1949) is an American artist and activist. She lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley in New York. Her work is inspired by the study of animal behavior. She is one of a group of early eco-artists concerned with urban ecology and our perceptions of nature. Her work has been shown extensively at galleries and museums.

Early career

As a resident of lower Manhattan in the late 1970s she exhibited in early artist run spaces including Exit Art, 3 Mercer Street Store, (a precursor to Fashion Moda,[1] Franklin Furnace, the Kitchen, Artists Space, The Clocktower and PS1 International Studio Program, and ABC No Rio.[2] Artists illegally occupied an abandoned city owned building for the groundbreaking Real Estate Show. She participated in the explosion of late 1970’s artist generated activity which included Collaborative Projects,[3] Group Material,[4] Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America,[5] (a nationwide mobilization of writers, artists, activists, artists organizations, and solidarity groups that began in New York in 1983), P.A.D.D.( Political Artists Documentation and Distribution), Artmakers, Ventana ( a collective of artists in Support of the Artists threatened by US aggression in the Contra wars of the 80’s in Central America). Her work appeared in early publications of The Soho News, East Village Eye, Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, Bomb Magazine.

Mid Career Recent Work

Mid Career and Recent Work In the mid 1980s Rupp turned her attention to global ecological struggles, such as agribusiness and water contamination. She began to make public art works including “Social Progress,” a commission for the Public Art Fund.

Recent works include sculptures of fake ivory and its association with commercial arms trade and oil extraction. In a statement, the artist explains that her work is less about animals than it is concerned with our attitudes towards habitat.

Rupp received the Creating a Living Legacy Award from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2015 and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 2010.

Catalogues

“Carbon Mostly,” (http://www.blurb.com/b/6440306-christy-rupp-carbon-mostly-catalog), 2015

“Nature In Pieces: The Environmental Sculpture of Christy Rupp,” Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, 2002

“Christy Rupp: Swimming in the Gene Pool,” MASS MoCA Kidspace, North Adams, MA, 2000

“Christy Rupp, The Landscape Within," Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY, 1999

"New Histories," published ICA Boston, 1996

“Natural Selection- The work of Christy Rupp,” Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, essay Lucy Lippard, 1992

“Artworks: Christy Rupp,” Williams College Museum of Art, 1991

Awards

Creating a Living Legacy, Joan Mitchell Foundation 2015 Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships 1984, 1986 New York Foundation for the Arts 1986 Art Matters Inc 1986, 1988

References

  1. ↑ "The Mercer Street Store - Art Nerd New York".
  2. ↑ http://www.abcnorio.org here-can-we-be-123-delancey-street/),
  3. ↑ "collaborativeprojectsarchive - home".
  4. ↑ "GROUP MATERIAL".
  5. ↑ "Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America". 29 February 2016.

Archives of American Art Oral History Program An interview of Christy Rupp conducted 2012 July 16–17, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-christy-rupp-16056

Times Square Show references: Martinez, Anna Blouin Art Info October 22, 2012

Times Square Show- Committee for the Real Estate Show. “History: The Real Estate Show Manifesto or Statement of Intent.” ABC No Rio. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 August 2009.

Hunter College http://www.timessquareshowrevisited.com/exhibition.html Deitch, Jeffrey. “Report from Times Square.” Art in America September 1980: 58-63.

Ehrlich, Dimitri and Gregor Ehrlich. “Graffiti in Its Own Words.” New York 10 July 2006: n. pag. Web. 4 March 2009.

Eliot, Marc. Down 42nd Street: Sex, Money, Culture, and Politics at the Crossroads of the World. New York: Warner Books, 2001.

Goldstein, Richard. “The First Radical Art Show of the '80s.” Village Voice 16 June 1980: 1, 31-2. Levin, Kim. “The Times Square Show.” Arts September 1980: 87-90.

Lippard, Lucy R. “Sex and Death and Shock and Schlock: A Long Review of ‘The Times Square Show’ by Anne Ominous.” Post-modern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art. Ed. Howard Risatti. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990. 77-86.

Sedgwick, Susana. “Times Square Show.” East Village Eye Summer 1980: 21.

Whiting, Cécile. A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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