Korns, Stephen c. 1950
Found 1 Works by this Artist
c. 1950
Lives and works in New York City
Stephen Korns (American, c. 1950) Artist: As a sculptor with 40 years of experience working with site-specific installations, Stephen Korns has created designs for environments ranging from individual rooms to various public parks, plazas, bridges, and highways, and from urban waterfronts and large industrial structures to historic town settings in this country and Europe. In his work, Mr. Korns has employed murals, engineered structures, earth and other natural materials, fountains, human figures, concrete forms, diverse lighting devices, fiberglass panels, mobile house trailers, video, and sound. He has held directorial and staff positions at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, The Kitchen, and the Franklin Furnace Archive, in New York, and the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. Mr. Korns has been a collaborator with Robert Wilson on projects in theater and architectural design, and he was the principal assistant to Dennis Oppenheim from 1979 to 1981. Mr. Korns studied cultural geography at the University of Chicago, with additional studies in geography and city planning at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and in filmmaking at the Art Institute of Chicago. In recent years he has served as a lecturer on "Performance as Resource", sound design, and listening awareness at the International Center of Photography, New York.