Barbara Kruger (*1945) is an artist who works with pictures and words in the hopes of revealing and resisting socially ingrained assumptions about power: how it determines who lives and who dies, who is healed and who is housed, who speaks and who is silenced, who is visible and who is marginalized. Since the mid-1970s, she has juxtaposed her own texts with found images in her effort to expose the machinations of capitalism, politics and gender that often go unquestioned. Based in Los Angeles and New York, Kruger has been with the gallery since 1985, represented first by Galerie Monika Sprüth and later by Sprüth Magers.
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Unacknowledged/Untold/Unafraid...), 2007
Barbara Kruger
Hall Art Foundation, Vermont
Through December 1, 2024
The Hall Art Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition by renowned American artist Barbara Kruger to be held at its galleries in Reading, Vermont from May 11–December 1, 2024. Since the 1970s, Kruger has utilized images and words to create powerful, graphic works that prompt us to question what we see and hear in the mainstream media, and to contemplate how our consumption of these messages shape our identity and our world. Spanning more than 30 years of her career, this survey includes over a dozen works that exemplify Kruger’s iconic and distinctive visual language as a means of examining the manipulative power of images.
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