Jon Hendricks (artist)

American artist, activist, and curator (born 1939)

This article is about the artist and curator. For other people with similar names, see John Hendricks (disambiguation).

Jon Hendricks

Born| 1939
Nationality| American
Education| Studied at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter
Known for| Artist, curator, political activist
Movement| Fluxus
Patron(s)| Gilbert and Lila Silverman

Jon Hendricks (born 1939) is an American artist, curator and political activist. Since 2008, he has served as the Fluxus Consulting Curator of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).[1][2][3]

Hendricks' art career began in the late 1950s. He moved to Paris in 1959 and studied at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter.[2] In the mid-1960s, he was the director of the basement gallery at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, where he also performed and took part in happenings.[4] Hendricks founded the Guerrilla Art Action Group with Jean Toche in 1969, and is credited as a member of the Art Workers' Coalition.[5][6][7][8][9] In November 1970, he joined Toche and fellow artist Faith Ringgold in an exhibition at the Judson Church called the People's Flag Show, which resulted in a police raid and the artists' arrest for flag desecration.[10][11]

In 1981, Hendricks was enlisted by Gilbert and Lila Silverman to curate their collection of Fluxus documentation.[1][2] He organized an exhibition of items from the Silverman collection at MoMA in 1988, which were on view in the Museum Library, two decades before the collection itself was donated to MoMA in 2008.[1][2] In addition, he is a friend and artistic collaborator of Yoko Ono, serving as her curator and archivist since the late 1980s.[12][13][14][15]

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1. ^ a b c "The Museum of Modern Art Acquires the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection of Fluxus Art [Press Release]" (PDF). The Museum of Modern Art. MoMA Department of Communications. 2009-02-13.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: others (link)
2. ^ a b c d Conaty, Kim; Hendricks, Jon (2015-11-13). "'By the way, what's Fluxus?': Jon Hendricks on the Formation of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection". post: notes on art in a global context (MoMA). Retrieved 2023-01-18.
3. ^ Waldow, Jennie (2014-06-20). "Talking John Cage with David Platzker and Jon Hendricks". Inside/Out (MoMA). Retrieved 2023-01-18.
4. ^ Kimmelman, Michael (1997-05-02). "Art in Review". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
5. ^ 19XX-, Baker, George 1970- Bryan-Wilson, Julia 1973- Burton, Johanna 19XX- Butler, Ann. Butt, Gavin Ellegood, Anne ca. 20. Jh. English, Darby. Erickson, Ruth. Morinis, Leora. Peipon, Corrina Taylor, Marvin J. (2014). Take it or leave it : institution, image, ideology ; [publ. on the occasion of the exhibition ... Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 8 - May 18, 2014]. Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-5342-5. OCLC 888725450.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. ^ "Irving Petlin, Jon Hendricks, Frazer Dougherty, Ronald L. Haeberle, Emilio Ambasz. Q. And babies? A. And babies.. 1970 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
7. ^ "Collection Information: Oral history interview with Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche, 1972 December 13". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1972-12-13. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
8. ^ Moore, Alan (2004). "General Introduction to Collectivity in Modern Art". The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. 1 (3).
9. ^ Frascina, Francis (1995). "Meyer Schapiro's Choice: My Lai, Guernica, MOMA and the Art Left, 1969-70". Journal of Contemporary History. 30 (3): 481–511. doi:10.1177/002200949503000306. ISSN 0022-0094. JSTOR 261159. S2CID 220874492.
10. ^ "The Opening of the People's Flag Show (9 November 1970) | 1968 @ 50". aap68.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
11. ^ "FLAG SHOW ARTISTS FINED $100 APIECE". The New York Times. 1971-05-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
12. ^ Pryor, John-Paul (2010-03-05). "Jon Hendricks". AnOther. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
13. ^ Rhee, Jieun (2005). "Performing the Other: Yoko Ono's Cut Piece". Art History. 28 (1): 96–118. doi:10.1111/j.0141-6790.2005.00455.x. ISSN 0141-6790.
14. ^ Basar, Shumon (2000). "Review of YES Yoko Ono". AA Files (43): 84–86. ISSN 0261-6823. JSTOR 29544224.
15. ^ Yamamura, Midori; Biesenbach, Klaus; Cherix, Christophe; Bryan-Wilson, Julia; Ono, Yoko; Yoshimoto, Midori (2015). "Review of Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971, BiesenbachKlaus, CherixChristophe, Bryan-WilsonJulia, OnoYoko, YoshimotoMidori". Woman's Art Journal. 36 (2): 43–45. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 26430656.

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