Irwin Kremen, Duke Professor has passed away
Feb 10, 2020 15:58:05 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2020 15:58:05 GMT -5
In 1951, Kremen moved to New York with his wife, Barbara, and reconnected with Black Mountain graduates, in particular poet MC Richards, composer John Cage, and dancer Merce Cunningham, whose influence guided Kremen’s mid-career turn toward the visual arts.
Kremen taught psychology as an assistant professor at Michigan State University before joining Duke University in 1963. With the encouragement of Richards and the painter and collage artist Italo Valenti, he began experimenting with collage comprised of found papers and patterned cloth. Intensely private about his practice, he did not publicly show any works until a 1978 exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina.
“A life is a very complicated business,” he told Duke Alumni Magazine in 2000. “My life was very clouded at the beginning, but over the course of it, the overriding ambition was for its powers to mature, whatever those powers might be. They had to be discovered, and that took quite a while.”
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