From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Criss-Cross
Criss-Cross
Criss-Cross was an artist’s cooperative that formed in • Marilyn Nelson
Colorado in the early 1970s. Having evolved out of Drop • Charles DiJulio
City, the 1960s artists’ community, C-C focused on issues • Clark Richert
surrounding "pattern and structure" and became associ- • Dee Shapiro
ated with the 70’s art movement "P&D" (Pattern and Dec- • Gloria Klein
oration). • George Woodman
In 1974, the five founders, Gene Bernofsky, JoAnn • Robert Swain
Bernofsky, Richard Kallweit, Charles DiJulio and Clark • Alvin Lucier
Richert, artists and filmmakers from Drop City, re- • Joe Clower
grouped in Boulder, Colorado to start the new artist’s co- • Margaret Neumann
operative, Criss-Cross. C-C’s purpose, like Drop City’s, was • John Fudge
to function in a "synergetic" interaction between peers • Buky Schwartz
to create experimental artistic innovation. Between 1974 • Donald Lipski
and 1980 the participants in Criss-Cross expanded to in- • Bruce Pearson
clude filmmaker Fred Worden (included in the 2002 • Tony Robbin
Whitney Biennial), University of Arkansas painter/print- Writers
maker Marilyn Nelson, and New York artists Gloria Klein, • Ed Dorn
George Woodman and others. • Sidney Goldfarb
• Between 1974 and 1980 published the nationally • Jeanie Weiffenbach
distributed avant garde art periodical "Criss-Cross • Robert Creeley
Art Communications" curated national and • Alan Sondheim
international art exhibitions focused on "pattern and • Mark Blane
structure". • Peter Frank
• Criss-Cross constructed the first "61-Zone System" • Henery Korn
(in collaboration with Steve Baer of ZomeWorks of
Albuquerque New Mexico) at the Art Research
Center in Kansas City.
Filmmakers:
References
• Stan Brakhage • Paint by Numbers, Michael Paglia
• Kurt Kren https://den.secure.newtimes.com/issues/
• Bruce Conner 1997-10-09/art.html
• Fred Worden • Flash Point, Michael Paglia (Jul 29, 1999)
• Charles DiJulio http://www.westword.com/issues/1999-07-29/
• Gene Bernofsky art_2.
• Ken Jacobs • Cut-Ups, Michael Paglia (Mar 17, 2005)
Artists http://music.westword.com/Issues/2005-03-17/
• Richard Kallweit culture/art.html
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Categories:
• American artist groups and collectives
• Artist cooperatives
• Contemporary art
• Colorado culture
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