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Robert Kushner

Robert Ellis Kushner (Born 1949) is active/lives in New York, California.  Robert Kushner is known for Sculpture, mod figure, floral, collage, prints, architect.

A member of the Pattern and Decoration movement, Robert Kushner, creates art ranging from black and white drawings done directly on walls to paintings on stitched together pieces of fabric to large-scale mosaics.

Kushner began his formal education at the University of California at San Diego studying with Nan Goldin, who was a visiting lecturer at the school from 1969-70.

In the early 1970s, he moved to New York City where he first found work as a restorer and collector of Oriental carpets.  In New York his relationship with Nan Goldin continued, and she became his mentor.  The pair studied the essentials of decoration, and in 1974 they traveled to Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan.

In the late 1970s Kushner's work was boldly colored painted-fabric works that were inspired by the textiles of Uzbekistan in which patterned fabrics are stitched together to create wall hangings.

In 1985, the artist traveled to Japan where he was strongly influenced by the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2862 characters.]  Artist bio

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