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Forrest Warden Myers, also known as Frosty Myers (born 1941 in Long Beach, California) is an American sculptor. He is best known for his pieces Moon Museum (1969) and The Wall (1973), the latter being a monumental wall sculpture in the SoHo, Manhattan neighborhood of New York City .
The Wall, also known as The Gateway to Soho, [1] is a piece of minimalist art that was constructed in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was part of the building that stands at 599 Broadway until 2002 when the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) gave the owners permission to take it down so the interior wall ...
Moon Museum is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters by one-half inch (19 by 13 mm) in size, [1] containing artworks by six prominent artists from the late 1960s. The artists with works in the "museum" are Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers and Andy Warhol.
This exhibit was a critical and media success as reported in Time [3] and Newsweek, [4] presenting the public with a show dedicated to a "New Art". Critical labels for the art included "ABC art," "reductive art" and "Minimalism," [5] though these labels were all roundly rejected by the artists themselves, notably Donald Judd.
November 19 – The Apollo 12 lunar module lands on the Moon with astronaut and artist Alan Bean; American artist Forrest "Frosty" Myers claims to have smuggled the art piece Moon Museum onto a leg of the module which will remain on the surface. [2]
The first exhibition featured installation art by Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Snelson, Christo, Robert Morris, Forrest Myers, and Sol LeWitt. [6] By 1972, the gallery moved locations to 392 West Broadway in Soho. John Gibson Gallery closed in 2000, [1] and Gibson died on March 1, 2019. [1]
Forrest Myers (born 1941), sculptor; Bruce Nauman (born 1941), installation artist, video artist, printmaker; Martin Puryear (born 1941), sculptor, printmaker; Anita Rodriguez (born 1941), artist incorporating ingenious ceremonialism and mysticism; John Seery (born 1941), painter; Keith Sonnier (1941–2020), sculptor
Claude Cahun (1894–1954), France; Alexander Calder (1898–1976), US; Alexander Milne Calder (1845–1923), Scotland/US; Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945), US; Florence Callcott (1866–1938), England