Biography:
Professor Emeritus Allan Kaprow who served on the full-time faculty from 1974 to 1993, died April 5, 2006, at his home in
Encinitas, California. He was 78 and died of natural causes.
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A memorial celebration was held on Saturday, June 3, 2006, from 3-6pm in the Visual Arts Facility at the University of California, San Diego.
Allan Kaprow studied at New York University (art at the undergraduate level, philosophy at the graduate) and received his MA from Columbia in art history. He also studied at the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in New York City and later with John Cage. His teaching career has included faculty positions at Rutgers, Pratt Institute, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the California Institute of the Arts (Associate Dean). He was also the co-director of Project Other Ways in Berkeley -- a study geared toward introducing studio artists into the public school system from elementary through secondary levels. Kaprow began his studio career as a painter; during the 1950's he co-founded the Hansa and Reuben Galleries in New York and later was the director of the Judson Gallery.
He is recognized as virtually having invented happenings and has performed/exhibited in galleries and museums both in the States and in Europe with his most publicized events including 18 Happenings in Six Parts, Calling, Gas, Fluids, and BTU's.
Kaprow is now studying the current literature in psychology and sociology on non-verbal behavior in our culture and others and is investigating research on the bilateral structure of the brain with the intention of applying these findings to performance possibilities.
A selection of articles written by Kaprow include "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock," Art News, October, 1958; "Happenings' in the New York Scene," Art News, May, 1961; "Impurity," Art News, January, 1963; Assemblage, Environments and Happenings, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966; Days Off, Museum of Modern Art, 1969, (a calendar of ten happenings); "The Education of the Un-Artist, Part I," Art News, February, 1971; "The Education of the Un-Artist, Part II," Art News, May, 1972; "The Education of the Un-Artist, Part III," Art in America, January, 1974; "The Real Experiment," Artforum, December, 1983.
Reviews of Kaprow's work include Happenings, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1965 (Michael Kirby); "Happenings," Tulane Drama Review, New Orleans, Winter 1965 (Richard Schechner); and The Art of Time, 1969 (Michael Kirby).
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