(Image: John Divola, DSB, 2008; © Gallery Luisotti)

John Divola (b. 1949, Los Angeles)

John Divola has made inevitable decay a central theme of his photography for more than 30 years. In Divola’s photographs of Suprematist-style black circles in abandoned white buildings, creation and destruction are held in delicate equilibrium. The all-white rooms, redolent of the iconic galleries in which Modern art is conventionally displayed, are tattered and derelict, as if the inhabitants have long since moved on and only squatters (and artists) might remain.

John Divola has an ongoing solo show at Gallery Luisotti on view till 10th Mar. 2012.  His works are also part of an ongoing group show at Palm Springs Art Museum on view till 27th May 2012.

Education: B.A., California State University, Northridge, CA, 1971.  M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 1973.   M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 1974.  National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, 1973 - 1974.  National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, 1976 - 1978.  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1986 - 1987. Mellon Fellowship, California Institute of the Arts, 1987 - 1988.  National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, 1990 - 1991. Fellowship, Center for Ideas in Society, UC Riverside, 1991-1992.

More about John Divola here...(ArtSlant Profile) (Artist's Website) (Galleries: Wallspace Gallery, Laura Bartlett Gallery)

(Text Source: Los Angeles Times)