Barbara Kruger: American Artist

Barbara Kruger Photographed in her New York Studio

            Born January 26th 1945 in Newark, New Jersey into a middle class home, the artist grew up as a single child. Her mother was a legal secretary and her father a chemical technician. She attended Syracuse University and Parsons School of Design where she received significant influence, guidance, and training to become an editor and designer for a magazine but, then moved on to pursue a career in art. She began to write poetry, narratives, and performed her own work as well. After dabbling with painting  for a while she decided it was not something she was interested in and decided to go back to focusing on pictures and captions. 

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