American conceptual artist, draughtsman, painter and writer. He
studied painting at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh
(BFA, 1962). In 1964 Bochner moved to New York. His first exhibition
(1966), described by Benjamin Buchloch as the first conceptual art
exhibition, was held at the Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual
Arts, New York, and titled Working Drawings and Other Visible Things
on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed as Art. In his work he
investigated the relation between thinking and seeing. In his first
mature works (1966), which are both conceptual and perceptual in
basis and philosophical in content, he was interested to eliminate
the ‘object’ in art and to communicate his own feelings and personal
experience, and he did not wish to accept established art-historical
conventions. He also experimented with word-drawings and number
systems. For his Measurement series (late 1960s) he used black tape
and Letraset to create line drawings accompanied by measurements
directly on to walls, effectively making large-scale diagrams of the
rooms in which they were installed. Bochner continued to make series
of installational line drawings into the 1970s and 1980s, but from
1983 he made paintings on irregular shaped canvases that can be
interpreted as meditations on drawing and the interrelation between
the mind, eye and hand. They display vigorously made marks, all
tracing the hand’s movement across specific surfaces. From the 1990s
he was dealing with the visual and perceptual systems of
perspective.
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