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» Add News | La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela
During a period of rapid growth in the early 60s, Zazeela not only joined Young’s musical group The Theatre Of Eternal Music as
vocalist (which also included, at various times photographer Billy Name, minimalist musician Terry Riley, musician John Cale,
video artist and musician Tony Conrad, and poet and musician Angus MacLise), but also produced for them light shows (among
the earliest in the form) which may have inspired Andy Warhol and were contemporaneous to the early work of better-known
light-artist Dan Flavin. This work derived from her earlier - more expressionistic - calligr ...read more
During a period of rapid growth in the early 60s, Zazeela not only joined Young’s musical group The Theatre Of Eternal Music as
vocalist (which also included, at various times photographer Billy Name, minimalist musician Terry Riley, musician John Cale,
video artist and musician Tony Conrad, and poet and musician Angus MacLise), but also produced for them light shows (among
the earliest in the form) which may have inspired Andy Warhol and were contemporaneous to the early work of better-known
light-artist Dan Flavin. This work derived from her earlier - more expressionistic - calligraphic canvases and drawings, now
taking on a psychedelic aspect by mostly using slides of still images and colored gels blended in exceedingly slow dissolves
from one to the next creating optical effects associated with Op Art. « hide |
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