User:Liannapaton/Wendy Red Star/Isveydi M Peer Review

Following his graduation from the Art Institute in Chicago in 1976, Koons made his way to New York City. There, he moved away from creating representations of his personal fantasies and began to explore objective art, commerce, and politics. He rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as a part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a newly media-saturated era with his Pre-new The New series. With recognition came the establishment of a factory-like studio located in a loft at the corner of Huston Street and Broadway in SoHo. Koons employed over 30 assistants, each assigned to a specific aspect of production, following a similar model to Andy Warhol's Factory. Until 2019, Koons operated a 1,500m2 (16,000 sq ft) studio factory near the old Huston rail yards in Chelsea, employing 90 to 120 assistants to produce his work. He now uses technology to create his artistic references on computers and color-corrects them until he is satisfied with the results. To ensure consistency, he implemented a color-by-numbers system so that each of his assistants could execute his canvases and sculptures as if they had been created by “a single hand.”

In 2022, Red Star collaborated with Standard University. Wendy Red Star: American Progress is about her experience as a Apsaalooke artist, addressing her lived experiences with belonging and unbelonging in the United States. Red Star engaged with Standford students affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity as well as the Institute for Diversity in the Arts by researching and gathering materials for the artworks. One of the artworks is entitled, Lady Columbia, and it is a “wallpaper print based on original paint-by-numbers”. The collaboration created a free public program that amplifies the artist’s voice and story.

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