Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm. He studied at Yale and the Art Institute of Chicago. He established himself in the early 1960s with a series of installations and performances on New York's Lower East Side. He installed Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks on the Yale campus in 1969, which became a controversial focus for student protest, and Clothespin in downtown Philadelphia in 1976. His recent work, with Coosje van Bruggen, is the 144-foot-long, 64-foot-high Cupid's Span for Rincon Park on the Embarcadero in San Francisco.
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Knife Slicing Through Wall, 1986 Wood painted with enamel; and plasterboard or cardboard blade: 4 ft. 10 in. x 12 ft. 3 in. (1.47 x 3.66 x .08 m); two wall sections, each 8 ft. x 3 ft. 10 in. x 2 ft. 8 in. (2.44 x 1.17 x .81 m) Installed at 817 Hillsdale Avenue, Los Angeles, CA Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Photo by |
| Lipstick (Ascending) | Clothespin | Pool Balls | Knife Ship | Spoonbridge | Slicing | Lipsticks |
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