Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger ( b.1945) is best known for her silkscreen prints where she placed a direct and concise caption across the surface of a found photograph. Since the 1990s, she has also returned to magazine design, incorporating her confrontational phrases and images into a wholly different realm from the art world. Associated with postmodern Feminist art as well as Conceptual art, Kruger combines tactics like appropriation with her characteristic wit and direct commentary in order to communicate with the viewer and encourage the interrogation of contemporary circumstances.