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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.
In 1965, Novros moved to New York City. After moving he became active within the Park Place Gallery. [5] [9] In 1969, Novros along with five other artists including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, John Chamberlain, and Forrest Myers, participated in the creation of the project called the Moon Museum (or Museum of the Moon) to send the first artwork to the moon.
Nina Baanders-Kessler (1915–2002), Netherlands; John Bacon (1740–1799), England; John Bacon the Younger (1777–1859), England; Frances Bagley (born 1946), US; Edward Hodges Baily (1788–1867), England
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]
Other artists generally included in the genre of Actual Art or "Actualism", include: Andy Goldsworthy; Forrest Myers; Allen Sonfist; Cheryl Safren; Perhaps the most ambitious work of art envisioned by an Actual artist is the San Andreas Fault Sculpture Project, proposed by Tery Fugate-Wilcox, which the Actual Art Foundation has committed to ...