Barbara Kruger

Untitled (Another Year), 2010



Barbara  Kruger

Barbara Kruger is one of the most influential conceptual artists of the last 30 years. She began her career as a graphic designer and formalized her practice as an artist by the late 1960s. Her appropriated imagery coupled with powerful use of language and bold typography, motifs that have become her signature, is drawn from graphic design vocabulary. Her work is meant to be a reflection and critique of our time. Upending the common devices of the media, that viewers often take for granted, her work forces us to consider the implicit sociopolitical messages about issues such as class, gender, and race by calling attention to them overtly.

Untitled (Another Year) is a lenticular pigment print and part of a limited edition that was created for members of the 2010 Collectors Committee at LACMA. As viewers approach the piece they are confronted by alternating image and an enumeration on the human condition. Currently a professor in the Department of Art at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Kruger has had her work shown internationally over the last three decades and has won numerous awards including The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005.