Sari Dienes
- Introduction
- Sari Dienes (8 October 1898 – 25 May 1992) was a Hungarian-born American artist. During a career spanning six decades she worked in a wide range of media, creating paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, textile designs, sets and costumes for theatre and dance, sound-art installations, mixed-media environments, music and performance art. Her large-scale 'Sidewalk Rubbings' of 1953–55 - bold, graphic, geometrical compositions, combining rubbings of manhole covers, subway gratings and other elements of the urban streetscape - signaled a move away from the gestural mark making of Abstract Expressionism towards the indexical appropriation of the environment that would be further developed in Pop art, and exerted a significant influence on Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
- Wikidata
- Q16012873
- Nationalities
- American, Hungarian
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Etcher, Mixed-Media Artist
- Names
- Sari Dienes, Sarolta Maria Anna Chylinska
- Ulan
- 500084847
Exhibitions
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Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury
Through Jun 5
MoMA
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408: Stamp, Scavenge, Crush
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 20, 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends
May 21–Sep 17, 2017
MoMA
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Overview: An Exhibition in Two Parts by the A.I.R. Gallery
Mar 5–Apr 9, 1978
MoMA PS1
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The Art of Assemblage
Oct 4–Nov 12, 1961
MoMA
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Sari Dienes Broken Vessel late 1940s
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Sari Dienes Flight 1 Stage 3 1949
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Sari Dienes Flight 1 Stage 4 1949
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Sari Dienes Flight 1 Stage 5 1949
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Sari Dienes Flight 1 (Artist's proof) 1949
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Sari Dienes Green Waves 1949
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Sari Dienes Lovers (series) 1949
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Sari Dienes Soho Sidewalk c. 1953–55
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Sari Dienes Tomb c. 1953–54
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