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Obituaries
Art in America, Dec, 2005
Esther Parada, 67, Chicago artist, died Oct. 19 of gastrointestinal cancer. Parada worked as an art instructor for the Peace Corps in Bolivia in the 1960s and remained socially engaged throughout her career. Her early photo-based works layered image and text; in the mid-'80s she began using digital technology to make photomontages that explore the relationship between power and historical and cultural representation. Her 2004 multimedia installation at the nonprofit Gallery 312 in Chicago focused on the demise of the American elm and explored the tree's cultural significance in American life. She authored numerous articles on Latin American photography, art and politics for various publications, and was particularly interested in the U.S. media in relation to Third World countries. She had taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Art & Design since 1974, and was the recipient of two NEA fellowships (1982, 1988).
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Lea Nikel, 86, Ukrainian-born Israeli artist, died of cancer on Sept. 10 in Moshav Kidron, Israel. She was best known for her lyrical abstractions, colorful works with vigorous brushstrokes. She won the Sandberg Prize from the Israel Museum, the Gamzu Prize from the Tel Aviv Museum, and the government's Israel Prize. In 1995, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of her paintings. In 1997, she was made a Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the French ministry of culture.
John Bowes, 77, businessman and art collector, died Oct. 26 of a heart attack in San Francisco. One of San Francisco's highest-profile collectors, Bowes, with his wife Frances, assembled an important collection of Minimalist artworks, including pieces by Brice Marden, Robert Ryman and Richard Serra. He was a member of the Tate Modern International Council in London and, in New York, served on the Museum of Modern Art International Council, and the finance committee of the Dia Center for the Arts.
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