Hyacinthe Kuller Baron P.O. Box 4496, Palm Springs, CA 92263 760 320 4760 [email protected] www.barongallery.com www.wwar.com, www.absolutearts.com, www.amazon.com, www.sablepublishing.com www.barongalleries.com, www.artresources.com President: The Baron Conservancy, Curator: The Hyacinthe Art Museum Trust CURRICULUM VITAE Hyacinthe Kuller Baron 1936---
Artist Biography 2005-Ongoing: Artist in Residence: Founder: THE BARON CONSERVANCY For The Preservation of Art, Desert and Human Nature
Editor and Compiler of ART AND HUMAN NATURE COLLECTION, An international illustrated invitational Art and Literary Book from www.barongallery.com to benefit the many projects of the Baron Conservancy with a publication date from www.sablepublishing.com of March 2006 and a submission deadline of November 23, 2005 will showcase talents of Artists, Authors and Poets.
Celebrating 50 years as a professional artist with the opening in 2004-5 of the Hyacinthe Kuller Baron Museum of Art Trust and Museum Without Walls Projects based on the ideas of mentors Marcel Duchamp and Andre Malraux. President of the BARON CONSERVANCY For the Preservation of Art, Desert and Human Nature, a dedicated pristine 5.5 acre site surrounded by 1000 acres of government protected land in the Ca. desert in Wonder Valley next to the Joshua Tree National Monument: A Center of the Arts and a vortex of creative endeavors currently under production with the many projects of the Baron Conservancy which include: The Hyacinthe Art Museum Trust, The Making Your Mark Creativity Institute and Art Retreats, the Baron Gallery CREATIVITY BANK Showcase, a Sculpture Garden, an ongoing site installation of permanent monumental sculptures in unusual and disparate sculpture mediums. The annual sculpture competition will invite professional sculptors from all over the world to create and add their creative input to the land with site specific sculpture installations: and The Baron Conservancy CONCEPTUAL EARTHWORK ART WORK IN PROGRESS in collaboration with an international roster of artists, designers and sculptors and architects.
Virtual Exhibitions on the world wide internet web site www.barongallery.com: Artistic retrospective films incorporating digitally altered and new works: and touring exhibitions in galleries and museums including recent submissions to the Whitney Biennial, Mona in Detroit. A child prodigy, the Published author of more than 10 books, a renowned sculptor of innovative techniques, a produced playwright, poet, painter, printmaker, drawing and painting teacher, fashion and home furnishings designer. Exhibited world wide in galleries in the U.S., London, Japan and the Worlds Fair in Brussels. NYC Art Expo, Taliesin West and in the Smithsonian and other Museums and Public and Private Collections including Malcom Forbes, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mrs. Bartle Bull, portraits include Elizabeth Taylor, Martha Raye, Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson, Marilyn Monroe. Contemporary influences and associates include Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter, Paul and Mary, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Steve McQueen, Bill Cosby, Andy Warhol, John Chamberlain, George Segal, Wilhelm DeKooning, Jackson Pollack, Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauchenberg, Jasper Johns, Jacob Bronowski, Jonas Salk, Crick, Charles James, Margaret Mead, Dali
ARTIST Educational Credentials
Hyacinthe Kuller Baron: A child prodigy, attended The High School of Music and Art, the youngest student ever admitted to The Art Students League on 57th Street, Hyacinthe studied with Frank Mason, Jose DeKreeft, Nathanial Kaz, Moses Sawyer. At the New School: Chaim Gross (Hyacinthe is a genius the heir to Micehlangelo and Rodin . Mentored by Marcel Duchamp ( Hyacinthe is a great draughtsman: captures character and her subjects emotions. ) Mentored by Andre Malraux on his concept of the Museum Without Walls and worked directly with Pratt Institute to establish the School Without Walls program. She helped to found the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach California ,Fort Mason Sculpture Center in San Francisco. " CATALOGUE RAISSONE The artist is compiling a CATALOGUE RAISSONE documenting her works and their current locations. Since so much of her work has been sold throughout her career in galleries and auctions world wide, The Hyacinthe Kuller Baron Museum plans include ongoing and virtual exhibitions of archival and current works.
" COLLECTIONS Having created drawings, paintings, lithographs, fashions, home furnishings, sculpture, all collected worldwide for private and celebrity collections including: Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Martha Raye, Jane Russell, Jim Browne, Chris Everet, Maude Adams, Malcom Forbes, Marcel Duchamp, Charles James and so many, many more, Hyacinthe continues to create exciting and thrilling works in many mediums. o CURRENT WORKS Currently at work on a series of films based on scripts from her published novels, Hyacinthe is intent on exploring the tenets of her mentor Marcel Duchamp: To capture movement of the figure in space time and combine movement with the transcendental qualities of beauty and the noble human spirit. These qualities have made her works beloved by the thousands who collected her works and continue to do so to this day.
Essentially self taught, Hyacinthe Kuller Baron is living proof of the artistic nature inherent in all of us, a talent that only requires freedom to be expressed. To this end Hyacinthe has been empowered by Ed Baron, a publisher, artists agent, supporter of the arts and husband and partner of more than thirty years and her agent and Philanthropist and Director of the new museum. Together they have established the Baron Conservancy as a legacy for their four sons. They created Atelier Baron, a successful hand painting studio and factory that created a line of high priced designer fashions prized by Major Department Stores and Celebrities world wide. PUBLIC ART PROJECTS.
Hyacinthe Kuller Baron is a pioneer in the art and science of sculptural materials used in innovative combinations involving chemical symbiosis of ancient clays, monosonite granite, magnetic sand particles and neo plastics, polymers, vinyl and acrylic, fiberglass fabrics and fillers and epoxy resins with which she both sculpts maquettes, large size metal armatured sculptures and Monumental Bronze sand casting Sculptures.
Hyacinthe Kuller Baron has maintained artistic success during a professional 50 year career as a painter and sculptor which has included numerous and generous donations and innumerable Public and Private Art Commissions and Exhibitions. Hyacinthe has a prestigious history of creating site specific art and sculpture installations, invitational submissions and project proposals for Museum and Institutional Exhibitions and Monumental Sculpture Commissions. City/location NYC The Child Study Association year, 1963 medium, painting, bronze size/scale of work 6x6
Catch a Star , NYC, Boys Town of Italy Foundation, 1956, Painting and Monumental 8 bronze statue of Spyros Skouras.
The Alice Statue Competition at the Sailing Pond in Central Park, 1963, 10x10 figure grouping, bronze
One to One Foundation Geraldo Rivera, 1981 NYC, Fifth Avenue, National Academy of the Arts, Allied Artists, Lithograph.
Heroes San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA, 1983, fired clay with oxides, maquette for 8x4 monument.
The Spirit of Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, Ca. 1985, Bronze, 16 x4 monument.
Grant Burton , Contra Costa County, 1985, Tryptych, Oil on Canvas, 9x4.
Duchamp and The Glass , Provincetown Mass. The Walter Chrysler Museum, 1968,Glass and Epoxy Resin Installation, The Surfers Monument:, Laguna Beach, Ca. The Kalos Kagathos Foundation, 1992, Clay and fiberglass and Epoxy resins, for the Huntington Beach Public Beach Entrance.
Who Killed Kate Billboard Installations in numerous locations in San Diego, Ca.1998 Charles James , The Alfred and Victoria Museum, London,1968, maquette of great designer
Rock Hudson , Laguna Beach, CA. The Orange County Aids Foundation, 1987, 2x3 Oil Painting on Canvas.
Martha Raye, Beverly Hills, CA, 1986, Producer Lee Guber Commission, oil on Canvas.
The Spirit of The Navy , 8x4 Bronze Monument for the Miramar Naval Brig, 1999.
In Search of Ancient Spirits , Joshua Tree National Monument,Wonder Valley, CA, 5 acre site, 2004-, Trustees Commission of The Hyacinthe Kuller Baron Museum of Art Museum Without Walls Project: 8 to 16 in height: Ongoing Earthwork and monumental sculptures Installation, metal, clay, fiberglass, epoxy resins.
The Atlantean Reemergence , Sculptures, Stinson Beach, CA., 1 acre site installation, 1994, 12 to 8. Clay, fiberglass, resins.
The Lotus Keeper , The Gallery, Stinson Beach and San Francisco, Ca., 1994, 5x4, clay, fiberglass, resins.
The Ice Priest of the Lotus , The Gallery, Hayes Street, San Francisco, Ca. 1994, 9x3, steel, aluminum, concrete, clay, fiberglass, resin
Jane Russell with the Waifs , New York City, The Plaza, Commissioned Portait, The World Adoption Fund, The New York Chapter of Waiff/ISS Intercounty Adoption Division of the International Social Services, 1963, Canvas, silk.
Elizabeth Among The Flowers New York City, 1972, Commission, Fabric, Silk.
Short Film: Documentary: 15minutes: Short Narrative VHS, DVD NTSC 2004: IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT SPIRITS In the collection of The Detroit Mona Museum and a submission to the Whitney Biennial.
Hyacinthe for The Artistic Soul, A Garden of Verse Adapted from the published book Images from Paintings and graphic works by the artist/author Courtesy of the Archives of The Hyacinthe Kuller Baron Museum of Art: http://www.barongallery.com
THE SANDSTONE CHRONICLES A woman wanders a beach, a desert, , contemplates the end of her life and encounters memorable characters from her past and wonders, Will anyone ever remember my name?
Hyacinthe, The Autobiographical Documentary of an artist. Highlights from the career of an artist and author and the search for wonder. Will be available as a DVD and Video.
Film and Broadway Theatrical Experience:
1997: Animal Nature Poetry and Art Performance with The Asian American Repertory Theatre.
1996: Imagine Kate , Short film in conjunction with art exhibition at the Drawing Room Downtown Galleries in San Diego. Writer, Director, Producer.
1996: Who Killed Kate? Produced by DRD Multi Media Productions: Director, Playwright
1980: Good Morning America : Joan Lunden, special artistic promotion as director of Atelier Baron.
1979: The Little Foxes: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton: Special Artistic liason commissioned by Director Lee Guber. 1979: PRATT UNIVERSITY: The Museum without Walls Project 1978: The Klansman: Kirk Douglas, Richard Burton, Lee Marvin: Production, Distribution.
1968: Dr. Zhivago: N.Y. Production Company Assistant Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie 1967: Leonard Sillmans New Faces: Eartha Kitt: Assistant to the producer 1966: Texas Guinan: Martha Raye: Producer Lee Guber, writer, Artist 1965: Tony Randall, Ivry Gitlis, Forest Hills Music Festival 1958: Lady of the Camelias on Broadway with Susan Strassberg. Special liason for production promotions with E.J. Korvette Department stores.
" BOOKS Hyacinthe discovered she had been telling a story in her art and began to write the story in the form of THE CASSANDRAS TEAR TRILOGY: Book One: THE ECHO OF A SCREAM and Book Two: THE ECHO OF A VOICE have been published and Book Three: THE ECHO OF A SILENCE is due to be published in 2005.
Hyacinthe and her husband have collaborated also on THE ART MYSTERY SERIES: 90% Memoir, 10% Fiction and 100% pure color and great story! Hyacinthe is an innovator who has always been willing to follow her dreams, and has had a support system to enable her to activate them: As the Barons take the ride of a lifetime and have the most exciting adventures they form businesses, buy horses, set up Art Galleries featuring Hyacinthes works, find the House of their dreams and raised 4 sons to be intelligent, handsome grown men.
Non-Fiction: DRAWING BY MAKING YOUR MARK CREATIVITY, MAKING YOUR MARK SEEKING THE SILENT STRANGER, Drawing Your Way Into the Deeper Self Based on the remarkable Making Your Mark Creativity Techniques developed by Hyacinthe which enable even the blind to draw.
Editor: ART OF THE BOOK JOURNAL twice yearly trade paperback from Sable Publishing ART OF THE BOOK MAGAZINE, QUARTERLY from Sable Publishing
Editor, Compiler: ART AND HUMAN NATURE COLLECTION, Literary and Art Book illustrated, invitational annual trade paperback.
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