Jon Hendricks (artist)
{{short description|American artist, activist, and curator (born 1939)}}
{{about|the artist and curator|other people with similar names|John Hendricks (disambiguation)}}
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| name = Jon Hendricks
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| birth_date = 1939
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| nationality = American
| field = Artist, curator, political activist
| training = Studied at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter
| movement = Fluxus
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| patrons = Gilbert and Lila Silverman
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Jon Hendricks (born 1939) is an American artist, curator and political activist. Since 2008, he has served as the Fluxus Consulting Curator of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).{{Cite web |date=2009-02-13 |others=MoMA Department of Communications |title=The Museum of Modern Art Acquires the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection of Fluxus Art [Press Release] |url=http://press.moma.org/wp-content/press-archives/PRESS_RELEASE_ARCHIVE/FluxusFinalRelease.pdf |website=The Museum of Modern Art}}{{Cite web |last1=Conaty |first1=Kim |last2=Hendricks |first2=Jon |date=2015-11-13 |title='By the way, what's Fluxus?': Jon Hendricks on the Formation of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection |url=https://post.moma.org/by-the-way-whats-fluxus-jon-hendricks-on-the-formation-of-the-gilbert-and-lila-silverman-fluxus-collection/ |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=post: notes on art in a global context (MoMA) |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Waldow |first=Jennie |date=2014-06-20 |title=Talking John Cage with David Platzker and Jon Hendricks |url=https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2014/06/20/talking-john-cage-with-david-platzker-and-jon-hendricks/ |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=Inside/Out (MoMA)}}
Art and activism
Hendricks' art career began in the late 1950s. He moved to Paris in 1959 and studied at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter. In the mid-1960s, he was the director of the basement gallery at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, where he also performed and took part in happenings.{{Cite news |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=1997-05-02 |title=Art in Review |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/02/arts/art-in-review-900222.html |access-date=2023-01-18 |issn=0362-4331}} Hendricks founded the Guerrilla Art Action Group with Jean Toche in 1969, and is credited as a member of the Art Workers' Coalition.{{Cite book |last=19XX- |first=Baker, George 1970- Bryan-Wilson, Julia 1973- Burton, Johanna 19XX- Butler, Ann. Butt, Gavin Ellegood, Anne ca. 20. Jh. English, Darby. Erickson, Ruth. Morinis, Leora. Peipon, Corrina Taylor, Marvin J. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/888725450 |title=Take it or leave it : institution, image, ideology ; [publ. on the occasion of the exhibition ... Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 8 - May 18, 2014] |date=2014 |publisher=Prestel |isbn=978-3-7913-5342-5 |oclc=888725450}}{{Cite web |title=Irving Petlin, Jon Hendricks, Frazer Dougherty, Ronald L. Haeberle, Emilio Ambasz. Q. And babies? A. And babies.. 1970 {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/7272 |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=1972-12-13 |title=Collection Information: Oral history interview with Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche, 1972 December 13 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-jon-hendricks-and-jean-toche-11910 |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Moore |first=Alan |date=2004 |title=General Introduction to Collectivity in Modern Art |url=https://www.joaap.org/1/amoore/1.html |journal=The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest |volume=1 |issue=3}}{{Cite journal |last=Frascina |first=Francis |date=1995 |title=Meyer Schapiro's Choice: My Lai, Guernica, MOMA and the Art Left, 1969-70 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/261159 |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=481–511 |doi=10.1177/002200949503000306 |jstor=261159 |s2cid=220874492 |issn=0022-0094|url-access=subscription }} In November 1970, he joined Toche and fellow artist Faith Ringgold in an exhibition at the Judson Church called the People's Flag Show, which resulted in a police raid and the artists' arrest for flag desecration.{{Cite web |title=The Opening of the People's Flag Show (9 November 1970) {{!}} 1968 @ 50 |url=https://aap68.yale.edu/opening-peoples-flag-show-9-november-1970 |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=aap68.yale.edu}}{{Cite news |date=1971-05-25 |title=FLAG SHOW ARTISTS FINED $100 APIECE |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/25/archives/flag-show-artists-fined-100-apiece.html |access-date=2023-01-18 |issn=0362-4331}}
Curatorial and archival work
In 1981, Hendricks was enlisted by Gilbert and Lila Silverman to curate their collection of Fluxus documentation. He organized an exhibition of items from the Silverman collection at MoMA in 1988, which were on view in the Museum Library, two decades before the collection itself was donated to MoMA in 2008. In addition, he is a friend and artistic collaborator of Yoko Ono, serving as her curator and archivist since the late 1980s.{{Cite web |last=Pryor |first=John-Paul |date=2010-03-05 |title=Jon Hendricks |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/162/jon-hendricks |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=AnOther |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Rhee |first=Jieun |title=Performing the Other: Yoko Ono's Cut Piece |date=2005 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0141-6790.2005.00455.x |journal=Art History |language=en |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=96–118 |doi=10.1111/j.0141-6790.2005.00455.x |issn=0141-6790|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Basar |first=Shumon |date=2000 |title=Review of YES Yoko Ono |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29544224 |journal=AA Files |issue=43 |pages=84–86 |jstor=29544224 |issn=0261-6823}}{{Cite journal |last1=Yamamura |first1=Midori |last2=Biesenbach |first2=Klaus |last3=Cherix |first3=Christophe |last4=Bryan-Wilson |first4=Julia |last5=Ono |first5=Yoko |last6=Yoshimoto |first6=Midori |date=2015 |title=Review of Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971, BiesenbachKlaus, CherixChristophe, Bryan-WilsonJulia, OnoYoko, YoshimotoMidori |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26430656 |journal=Woman's Art Journal |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=43–45 |jstor=26430656 |issn=0270-7993}}
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