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Gary Baseman
, b. 1960
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Baseman is a high profile interdisciplinary artist whose work blends popular culture and fine art. His parents were Holocaust survivors who had emigrated from Eastern Poland (now Ukraine), and instilled in Baseman the importance of compassion and advocacy for others, free speech and other democratic ideals. He studied Communications at UCLA, and in 1986 moved to New York to develop advertising campaigns for well known brands including Nike, Levis, Gatorade, and Mercedes-Benz, and content for publications including The New Yorker, TIME and Rolling Stone. In the 1990s he created the character for the board game Cranium and created the award winning cartoon Teacher’s Pet. Influenced by the style of Walt Disney and Andy Warhol, his characters are simultaneously cute and weird, moving through landscapes that are appealingly surreal.
Baseman has been a regular speaker at international conferences about visual culture. His works have been exhibited in galleries across the world, including a career retrospective in Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Taipei from 2013-15. He has created a documentary feature film about his family heritage called Mythical Creatures.
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Official website (accessed: October 20, 2020).
Bio prepared by Miriam Riverlea, University of New England, mriverlea@gmail.com
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