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Made “Offshore Drilling”

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Noah Purifoy

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Born in Snow Hill, Alabama (1971-2004), having lived and worked in LA and the nearby town of Joshua Tree

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Noah Purifoy

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Which child is Purifoy out of

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37238

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Grew up in poverty in a sharecropping family

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Noah Purifoy

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Received a bachelor’s degree from Alabama State Teachers College and a master’s in social work from Atlantic University, before moving West and studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Chouinard Art Institute

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Noah Purifoy

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How did Purifoy begin his career

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With design objects, such as stereo cabinets, beds, & wall decorations

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Why did many West Coast African-American artists start their art careers with design objects

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Galleries weren’t open to showing Black artists

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What did Purifoy co-found

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the Watts Tower Arts Center

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When was the Watts Tower Arts Center founded

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1964

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What was the Watts Tower Arts Center named after

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The independent artwork created in the LA neighborhood of Watts by Simon Rodia

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Made independent artwork in the LA neighborhood of Watts

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Simon Rodia

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Who does the Watts Towers Arts Center provide arts instruction and opportunity for

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members of the Watts community

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The series Purifoy created and exhibited in a traveling exhibition

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junk art

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Purifoy created and exhibited a series of “junk art” sculptures in an exhibition called

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66 Signs of Neon

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The exhibition “66 Signs of Neon” arose as a direct response to

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the August 1965 Watts Rebellion

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A predominantly Black neighborhood located directly south of downtown LA

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Watts

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A period of 6 days in which people of Watts took to the streets following the arrest of an African American man suspected of driving under the influence

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Watts Rebellion

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How many deaths did the Watts Rebellion result in

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34

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How many injuries were resulted from the Watts Rebellion

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More than 1,000

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How many buildings were damaged in the Watts Rebellion

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A thousand

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How many arrests were made in the Watts Rebellion

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4000

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Who did Purifoy worked alongside of to organize an exhibition of assembled sculpture created from the found refuse

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Judson Powell

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What materials did Purifoy and Powell start with for their exhibition

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The lead of melted neon signs and added works by 6 additional artists

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How many artists did Purifoy and Powell use the works of for their exhibition

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6 additional artists

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How many objects were in Purifoy and Powell's exhibition
66
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What social message was associated in Purifoy's and Powell's exhibition
Racial discrimination and police violence in communities of color
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When did Purifoy leave his position at the Watts Tower Arts Center
1966
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What did Purifoy do after leaving his position at the Watts Tower Arts Center
He left to teach at California colleges and universities, including UCLA; the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Immaculate Heart College in LA
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What did Purifoy transition to in the late 1970s from working as an artist to
Arts administration as a member of the California Arts Council
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An accomplishment of Purifoy during his decade of service in the California Arts Council
Programs such as Artists in Social Institutions, which brought art into California's state prison system
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What did Purifoy transition to in 1989
Moved to the town of Joshua Tree in California's Mojave Desert to begin creating outdoor works of art
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How many years did Purifoy spend creating outdoor works of art
15 years, up until his death
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An environmental issue that "66 Signs of Neon" embodies
Toxicity of building materials
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Name of the installation of sculptures around Purifoy's home
Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum
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2 sculptures included in the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum
Carousel" and "Bowling Balls I
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The art piece that includes small structures that one can enter and walk around in
"Carousel"
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A sculpture in the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum that is a more conventionally freestanding sculpture
Bowling Balls I
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All the works in Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum employ found objects like
bowling balls, cafeteria trays, wire, old tires, televisions and other household appliances, and scrap metal
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2 reasons Junk appealed to Purifoy
Junk is accessible and it relates to poor people
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What did Purifoy commit to when he decided to move to the Mojave Desert
Commit to living a life of poverty
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Where were materials incorporated in Purifoy's Outdoor Museum from
Joshua Tree and from LA by his friends
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What exhibition was "Offshore Drilling" part of
the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum
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What is "Offshore Drilling" composed of
A complex tangle of rusted scrap metal that has been bolted and fastened together
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Russian revolutionary
Vladimir Tatlin
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Postwar Modernist
Anthony Caro
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What does "Offshore Drilling" draw upon
Aesthetic language of modern sculpture from Russian revolutionaries like Vladimir Tatlin and post war modernist like Anthony Caro
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"Offshore Drilling" hover in
air atop 4 metal legs, w/ horizontal appendages that veer off to either side
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How many metal legs are in "Offshore Drilling"
4
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What kind of artwork is "Offshore Drilling"
abstract artwork
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Many rigs populate the water off
the coast of Southern California
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The oil spill in 1969
Santa Barbara Oil Spill
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About what did "Offshore Drilling" pose questions to
poverty, oil extraction, and toxicity
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The distribution of wealth benefits who
wealthy communities
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The industrial production and infrastructure furthers pollute and disrupts who
Poorer communities and their residents
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Purifoy’s Outdoor Museum can be understood as
Its own miniaturization of a city
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Purifoy’s Outdoor Museum is a city that
lays bare the inequalities that many actual cities hide by assigning the effects of poverty and pollution to areas and communities that are less visible from the outside
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"Offshore Drilling" is located beside
Ode to Frank Gehry
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Describe "Ode to Frank Gehry"
an all-white sculpture that's suspended on poles
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"Offshore Drilling" points to the ways in which
environmental racism tends to disappear beneath the surface image of cities
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"Ode to Frank Gehry" is named after
the prominent LA architect whose buildings define the image of cities not only in Southern California, but all over the world
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Where is Gehry's Guggenheim Museum located in
Bilbao, Spain of 1997
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What materials does Gehry used for his later buildings
Titanium Panels
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Gehry's Guggenheim Museum if fashioned in
distinctive titanium panels
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Artwork that Gehry uses titanium panels in
the Disney Philharmonic in downtown LA
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Gehry's work became a marker of
larger-scale urban gentrification
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The disproportionate impact on environmental hazards and pollution on marginalized and minority communities
Environmental Racism (pg. 65)
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artwork created from discarded or found objects, often with a focus on recycling and repurposing materials
Junk Art (pg. 63)

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