Mel Bochner

(American, born 1940)

Mel Bochner is an American Conceptual artist best known for his text-based paintings. Bochner’s popular thesaurus painting series consists of lists of synonyms displayed in rainbow-colored palettes, often featuring a single word repeated in painterly capital letters, as seen in his seminal piece Blah, Blah, Blah (2008). “My feeling was that there were ways of extending, or re-inventing visual experience, but that it was very important that it remain visual,” he reflected on introducing text into his work. “The viewer should enter the idea through a visual or phenomenological experience rather than simply reading it.” Born in 1940 in Pittsburgh, PA, he earned his BFA from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1962. Travelling to New York in 1964, Bochner began working as a guard at the Jewish Museum and settled in the city. Like Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson, and Donald Judd, Bochner experimented with ideas that broke away from the dominate Abstract Expressionism of the early 1960s and developed an ongoing commitment to semiotic representation. His influential critical and theoretical essays on art have figured as a central component to his oeuvre. The artist continues to live and work in New York, NY. Bochner’s works are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.

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Mel Bochner Artworks

Mel Bochner (851 results)

Untitled (+ another; 2 works), 1994

Mel Bochner

Untitled (+ another; 2 works), 1994

Sale Date: September 30, 2008

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Untitled, 1990

Mel Bochner

Untitled, 1990

Sale Date: July 3, 2008

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Untitled, 1990

Mel Bochner

Untitled, 1990

Sale Date: May 7, 2008

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Untitled

Mel Bochner

Sale Date: May 7, 2008

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Measurements, 12, 2000

Mel Bochner

Measurements, 12, 2000

Sale Date: May 17, 2008

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Counting alternatives A+B (in 2 parts), 1972

Mel Bochner

Counting alternatives A+B (in 2 parts), 1972

Sale Date: May 27, 2008

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Floating world, ukiyo-e (set of 5), 1990

Mel Bochner

Floating world, ukiyo-e (set of 5), 1990

Sale Date: May 21, 2008

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3 photographs + 1 diagram, row A (set..., 1966–1996

Mel Bochner

3 photographs + 1 diagram, row A (set..., 1966–1996

Sale Date: May 14, 2008

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Untitled (+ another; 2 works), 1993

Mel Bochner

Untitled (+ another; 2 works), 1993

Sale Date: November 19, 2004

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Untitled, 1989

Mel Bochner

Untitled, 1989

Sale Date: February 8, 2008

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Untitled

Mel Bochner

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Composition, 1989

Mel Bochner

Composition, 1989

Sale Date: November 12, 2007

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Wittgenstein illustration, 1st reading, y..., 1971

Mel Bochner

Wittgenstein illustration, 1st reading, y..., 1971

Sale Date: November 14, 2007

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Untitled (from 4x4x4), 1990

Mel Bochner

Untitled (from 4x4x4), 1990

Sale Date: September 29, 2007

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Untitled, 1987

Mel Bochner

Untitled, 1987

Sale Date: September 12, 2007

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Ludwig Wittenstein, on certainty/Über..., 1991

Mel Bochner

Ludwig Wittenstein, on certainty/Über..., 1991

Sale Date: July 18, 2007

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Untitled, 1979

Mel Bochner

Untitled, 1979

Sale Date: July 10, 2007

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Untitled (from 4X4X4), 1968–1990

Mel Bochner

Untitled (from 4X4X4), 1968–1990

Sale Date: June 7, 2007

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Untitled - Prussian blue (+ Untitled - Red..., 1977

Mel Bochner

Untitled - Prussian blue (+ Untitled - Red..., 1977

Sale Date: February 28, 2007

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10 sides, 1974

Mel Bochner

10 sides, 1974

Sale Date: February 28, 2007

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Wittgenstein illustration - 2nd reading --..., 1973

Mel Bochner

Wittgenstein illustration - 2nd reading --..., 1973

Sale Date: February 28, 2007

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Apices (set of 3), 1977

Mel Bochner

Apices (set of 3), 1977

Sale Date: February 9, 2007

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QED (group of 2), 1974–1975

Mel Bochner

QED (group of 2), 1974–1975

Sale Date: February 9, 2007

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Untitled (from Couples), 1994

Mel Bochner

Untitled (from Couples), 1994

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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