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1. This artist worked with fluorescent light bulbs. His first displays resembled picture frames, but he progressed to structures that illuminated entire rooms. Who was he?
2. This Japanese-American sculptor and landscape artist was known for his stylized metal and stone forms, as well as a variety of other projects. These included dance stage designs, public park displays, furniture pieces and the playful shapes of Ikari lights. Name him?
3. This sculptor was originally named Leah Berliawsky. She created wood collages which presented an amalgam of everyday items and were commonly painted black or presented in dark rooms. Thus she turned the normal into something with a surprising new identity. Who was she?
4. This individual used electronic elements in his pieces, including a map of the United States outlined in brightly colored lights, and a statue of Buddha facing a television screen. In 1965, he invented the first portable video and audio recorder. Name this artist.
5. This artist once worked in a steel mill. This helped him learn to design objects such as the curved steel walls which went on display in public squares in Paris in 1983.
He usually works in black or grey. An exception was the 1997 red panel piece "Torqued Ellipses," shown at the Dia Center in New York. Who was he?
6. This artist used a wide variety of media, including film, video installations, illustrations and sculpture. He earned widespread acclaim for his film series, "The Cremaster Cycle." Name him?
7. This artist used small video projectors to beam images of faces onto mannequin heads and other surfaces in the room. With these, he synchronized audio recordings of bizarre, rambling speeches, so that each face seemed to be a separate character. Name him?
8. This German-born gentleman was one of the first people to introduce a television panel into his artwork. He also integrated automobiles into sculpture pieces. One of these, "Car in Concrete," showed a car sticking out of a wall. Who was he?
9. This Greek artist worked in painting and performance art, and in 2003 co-founded the Fluxus Heidelberg Center. Name the person.
10. This painter was born in 1965 in Athens, Greece. His abstract paintings stood out for their flashes of bright color. Common subjects included horses, shoreline landscapes and the human nude. Name him?
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