Barbara Kruger

I want to be on the side of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
                                                                                                                                                            --Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger puts her art out to play in the constant traffic of consumer messages - on posters, signs, matchboxes, postcards, placards, billboards, museum walls, even on the bodies of passerby in the form of T-shirts or shopping bags. Although Kruger's famous accusatory "You" seems specifically addressed to the male viewer, the help her jokes offer is not gender-exclusive. The "We" her work addresses is any subject seeking to shift the limits of his or her enclosure - through laughter.

About the Artist:
Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersy in 1945. She was educated at Syracuse University and Parsons School of Design. Recently she has been working on a number of outdoor public projects in the United States and Germany. She now lives in New York and Los Angeles.

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