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Tasset’s work was featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial of American Art and is included in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Con- temporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the San Francisco Museum of Art,CA; and several other important institutions. He was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation awards, among others. His large-scale sculptures dot the landscape of dozens of America’s beloved public spaces, including the Art Trail at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the lot of Sony Pictures Studios in California, and public plazas in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Dallas, and many other cities. Tasset is an emeritus professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, IL.
Angry Sun
fiberglass, paint, faux gold leaf 72'' x 72'' x 24''
edition of 3 plus one AP
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