Christie's rarely sold
works by living artists at the end of the 20th century, but now the vast majority in terms of value at auction is the result of new artists.
A record price for
a work by a living artist at auction was set last night by Germany's Gerhard Richter.
Two have already been sold by Clapton — in 2012, 809 - 4 changed hands for # 21.3 m, setting a new auction record for the artist and for
any work by a living artist at auction.
[11] In 1988, Johns» False Start was sold at auction at Sotheby's to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. for $ 17.05 million, setting a record at the time as the highest price paid for
a work by a living artist at auction, and the second highest price paid for an artwork at auction in the U.S. [32] In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago - based hedge fund Citadel LLC) bought False Start (1959) from David Geffen [33] for $ 80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.
Not exact matches
Also, I'd
worked in a nursing home with people
at the end of their
lives and it was a good wake up call as I realized one day I too would be
at the end of my
life and I asked myself what I would regret not doing
by the time I got there - I got a loud and clear answer that I had to give being a full - time
artist and earning an income from my passion a proper go!
It's a fascinating and creative look
at Joseph Beuys, and more than anything made me admire this great
artist and feel deeply inspired
by his
work and his outlook on
life.
Hollywood, CA (October 19, 2017)-- dick clark productions announced today that Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will receive the «Hollywood Producer Award» for their stunning film Blade Runner 2049, directed
by Denis Villeneuve and starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford and Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber will receive the «Hollywood Screenwriter Award» for their
work on the film The Disaster
Artist, based on the real -
life story of filmmaker Tommy Wiseau,
at the 21st Annual «Hollywood Film Awards.»
This unique resource is co-authored
by Erica Bauermeister, who has taught
at the University of Washington and Antioch University; Holly Smith, the manager of an independent bookstore for over ten years; and Jesse Larsen, a
working - class
artist and writer now
living in Vermont.
His
work on the monumental Pennyroyal Caxton Bible was the only one - man exhibit ever to be mounted
at the Library of National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
by a
living artist.
Mattias Snygg, co-founder and
artist at Villa Gorilla, says the approach to building the island was inspired
by Japanese animations, particularly the
work of Studio Ghibli: «[Hayao] Miyazaki's
work centres on the core idea of nature as a
living, breathing thing.
At the core of this endeavor, titled «Culturunners,» is a pickup truck and trailer kitted out with broadcast equipment, prototype gadgets, and conceptual
works by the
artists, who will
live and
work aboard the «mobile studio.»
Features include an interview with the
artist David Shrigley about his love of football and his
life's
work, a chat with graphic design legend Paula Scher, an introduction to Gaika and Kibwe Tavares who are set to take the music and film world
by storm, an insight into how curator Paola Antonelli shook up the design world in her role
at MoMA, and a chat with illustrator Noma Bar.
James Panero reviews Painting Is Not Doomed To Repeat Itself
at Hollis Taggart Galleries, Checkered History: The Grid in Art &
Life at Outpost
Artists Resources (closed), Tempos: Selected
Works by Elizabeth Gourlay, 2013 — 2015
at Fox Gallery (through Feb 13, 2016), Diphthong
at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Todd Bienvenu: Exile on Bogart Street
at Life on Mars (through Nov 8), Occo Socko!
Bobbie began her creative
life as a dancer and an
artist before studying graphic design with Armin Hofmann
at the Basel School of Art and Crafts, and her
work is shaped
by both balletic movement and rigorous attention to form.
Rohatyn admits that the premise is «almost anachronistic,» yet feels it's ultimately appropriate for the subject
at hand: «To me, dead
artists are kept alive through
living artists looking
at their
work and being inspired
by it,» she says.
2013
Living and Sustaining a Creative
Life: Essays
by 40
Working Artists, Intellect Books, p. 152 - 156 Art
at Eaton Center, Cleveland, OH, Catalog, 2013 p. 26 - 29
Select Group Exhibitions 2017 Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary
Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2017 Buffalo in the American
Living Room, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2017 All That Glitters,
work on display in contemporary galleries
at St. Louis Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift, Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art
by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving
at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual
Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's
Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Chazan Gallery
at Wheeler is a nonprofit
artists» space which exhibits a wide range of contemporary
work by artists living or
working in the area.
ITINERANT
at Queens Museum will present a selection of Performance Art
works by local and international
artists whose
works reflect on issues affecting diverse populations
living in Queens, and NYC
at large.
Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated
by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried
by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated
by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated
by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated
by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown
by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated
by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small
Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown
by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction
at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated
by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small
Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown
by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show,
Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown
by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown
by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New
Works», curated
by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small
Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction
at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show,
Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still
Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small
Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated
by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small
Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY
The
work is called «Jack Lemmon,» and it was made last year
by Rachel Harrison, a brilliant
artist in her mid-40s who
lives and
works in Brooklyn, N.Y.. It's on display in the permanent collection galleries
at the Institute of Contemporary Art, on long - term loan from the benefactor Barbara Lee.
Exhibitions presented in The Brown Foundation Gallery feature
work by leading internationally - recognized
artists working at the vanguard of contemporary art, as well as thematic exhibitions organized around questions central to the nature of art and
life today.
Currently on display are
works by prominent DC - based
artist Linn Meyers, who has been commissioned in the recent past
by The Phillips Collection, as well as William Kentridge (South Africa) and Oleg Kudryashov (Russia), two of the most significant
living printmakers who were exhibited together
at The Kreeger Museum in 2009.
Their
living legacy will better prepare the participating
artists to respond to grant proposals, calls for exhibitions, and present their
works to curators during studio visits; thus enabling them to further their careers
by taking advantage of opportunities
at home and outside the Deep South.
Featuring
works by Emma Amos, Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Loïs Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones - Hogu, Samella Lewis, Lorraine O'Grady, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Lorna Simpson, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others, the show presents a diverse group of
artists who
lived and
worked at the intersection of art production, political activism and social change.
The exhibition will open
at Qatar Museums» 3,500 - square - meter Gallery Al Riwaq on March 14, 2016 featuring
works by 15
living artists and
artist collectives born in Mainland China: Jenova CHEN, HU Xiangqian, HU Zhijun, HUANG Yong Ping, LI Liao, LIANG Shaoji, LIU Wei, LIU Xiaodong, Jennifer Wen MA, SUN Yuan & PENG Yu, WANG Jianwei, XU Bing, XU Zhen, YANG Fudong, and ZHOU Chunya.
Sold for 3,641,000 to Roman Abramovich in 2008, the most expensive
work sold
by a
living artist at auction until 2012.)
His first show
at Kate MacGarry is a chance to catch up, or be surprised for the first time,
by an
artist whose
work is full of
life, humour and pathos.
Since Ritchie exhibited «The Universal Adversary»
at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 2006, his
work has been included in numerous exhibitions including: the Venice Architecture Biennale; the Seville Biennale; the Havana Bienal; «Matthew Ritchie, The Iron City,» St. Louis Art Museum; «Wunderkammern» Museum of Modern Art, New York; «The Guggenheim Collection,» Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; «Not For Sale» PS1, New York; «Confines,» IVAM, Valencia, Spain; «The Shapes of Space,» Guggenheim Museum, New York; «Between Art and
Life,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; «The Kaleidoscopic Eye,» Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; «In the Beginning:
Artists Respond to Genesis,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; «Experimental Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum; «The Last Scattering, Phase Two,» London, «To the Milky Way
by Bicycle,» Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany; «The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art,» Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
The final chapter,
Living Labor (2013), which was produced for the
artist's solo exhibition
at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and will be shown
at the Palais de Tokyo and Institut français» off - site exhibition in Chicago, curated
by Katell Jaffrès and entitled Singing Stones, is sited in New York, where five undocumented workers tell of exploitative
working conditions, indignity, and invisibility in the United States.
Challenged
by gallery owner Janet Lehr to «Think Red,» the
living artists with
work on view in the «Valentine & Art: Together Forever» exhibition
at Janet Lehr Fine Arts responded with breathtaking results.
A new exhibition
at the Hayward Gallery presents
work by London - based
artists which responds to the dynamic and disorientating character of everyday cosmopolitan
life.
The Past Lies Ahead, Sue Williamson's new exhibition
at Goodman Gallery Cape Town, coincides with the launch of a superbly illustrated 256 page monograph, Sue Williamson:
Life and
Work covering the
artist's entire career, published
by the prestigious Italian art house, Skira.
In Delahunty's words, this sculpture is «one of the first commissioned
works by a
living female
artist to be installed
at the entrance of an American Museum» and it is «
by far the most ambitious sculpture she has ever made in terms of scale and painted surface.»
Brooklyn Jared Bark Photobooth
Works 1969 - 1976 / Southfirst / 60 N. 6th / thru 11/15 / southfirst.org / Opening 9/24 No Irony Here: David Kramer, Paul Gagner, Claudia Bitran, and Cate Giordano / The Parlour Bushwick / 791 Bushwick Avenue / thru 11/1 / theparlourbushwick.com / Opening 9/25 Body Utopia: C. Ganesh, C. Haynes, R. Lehrer, S. Perry, P. Yolacan, C. Zavitsanos / Brooklyn Art Space / 168 7th / thru Oct 31, 2015 / www.trestlegallery.org / Opening 9/25 Samuel Laurence Cunnane / Theodore: Art / 56 Bogart / thru 10/25 / theodoreart.com / Opening 9/26 Smack Mellon Open Studios w Nadia Awad, Zachary Fabri, Donna Huanca, Nyeema Morgan, Lori Nix, Chat / Smack Mellon / 92 Plymouth / thru 9/27 / smackmellon.org / Opening 9/26 / Rachel Whiteread: Looking Out / Luhring Augustine / 25 Knickerbocker / thru 12/20 / www.luhringaugustine.comMelissa Murray and Julia Westerbeke: ECHOES / A.I.R. Gallery (
Artists in Residence) / 155 Plymouth (new location) thru 10/11 / http://airgallery.orgAndy Cross, Benjamin Degen, Alyssa Gorelick, Hein Koh, Ben Pederson, Dav Color Against Color, curated
by Eric Hibit / Ortega y Gasset Projects / 363 Third / thru 10/18 / oygprojects.com Ecstatic Prismatic / Honey Ramka / 56 Bogart / thru 10/11 / honeyramka.com Jolie Laide /
Life on Mars / 56 Bogart / thru 10/4 / lomg.kassandramj.com / Elana Herzog
at Studio 10 / 56 Bogart / thru 10/11 / http://www.studio10bogart.com Seeing Sound / Odetta / 229 Cook / thru 11/01 / www.odettagallery.com Andrew Ross / Signal / 260 Johnson / thru 10/24 / ssiiggnnaall.com Xiao Fu: Pixel World and Justin Cooper / Storefront Bushwick / 324 Ten Eyck / thru 10/11 www.storefrontbushwick.com Libby Hartle Shades and Shallows and Kristen Jensen intermission / Outlet / 253 Wilson / thru 10/4 / www.outletbk.com Jane Fine: Contents Under Pressure / Pierogi / 177 North 9 / thru 10/11 / www.pierogi2000.com Gabriele Evertz: The Gray Question / Minus Space / 16 Main / thru 10/31 / www.minusspace.com / Jacob Goble BANKRUPT / Sardine / 286 Stanhope / thru 10/4 / sardinebk.com /
Xavier Hufkens is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition
at the gallery
by American
artist Matt Connors (b. 1973, Chicago,
lives and
works in New York).
Organized
by Malba — Fundación Costantini and curated
by Philip Larratt - Smith (Deputy Chief Curator, Malba, Buenos Aires) and Frances Morris (curator of Kusama's retrospective
at Tate Modern, London) in collaboration with the
artist's studio, the exhibition offers an in - depth survey of the
work of the most prominent
living Japanese
artist through over 100 carefully chosen
works from 1950 to 2013, including paintings,
works on paper, sculptures, videos, slideshows, and installation
works.
In 2001 she was awarded the John Kinross travel scholarship
by The Royal Scottish Academy to
live and
work in Florence, in 2007 she won the
Artist's Book Residency
at the Women's Studio Workshop (New York State), and in 2014 she was the Derek Hill Foundation Scholar (Drawing)
at The British School
at Rome.
Washington, DC — The first retrospective in 25 years of
work by artist Garry Winogrand — renowned photographer of New York City and postwar American
life — will be on view
at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 2 through June 8, 2014.
The November 2013 sale
at Christie's made the sculpture the most expensive
work of art
by a
living artist.
Currently on view
at the de Young is The
Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music (2014), a video
work by Vietnamese American
artist collective The Propeller Group that resonates powerfully with the Museums» Southeast Asian holdings.
It raised some alarm for the collector dealer about the ramifications for the art market if
living artists can arbitrarily de-authentic
works owned
by others
at whim.
1993 Les Amis des Musées de Verviers: Aspects de la mouvance construite internationale, Fondation Pro Mesures Art International, Verviers, Belgium (catalogue) Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Skowhegan 93, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (booklet) Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Artists» Photographs: A Private View, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Live in Your Head, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst and Galerie Metropol, Vienna (curated
by Robert Nickas, catalogue) The Tradition of Geometric Abstraction in American Art 1930 — 1990, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 15th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Drawing the Line Against AIDS, AmFAR Art Against AIDS, Venice Biennale, Venice Looking
at Collecting Today, Chateau de Tanlay, Burgundy, France Legend In My
Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York I Love You More than My Own Death, Venice Biennale, Venice Italia - America, L'Astrazione Ridefinita, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, San Marino, Italy (curated
by Demetrio Paparoni, catalogue) New York Painters, Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue) Legend in My
Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York Wall
Works, Edition Schellmann, Cologne, Germany
Works on Paper, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles Twenty Years, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Peter Halley, Todd Levin, Thread Waxing Space, New York (video project)
Living with Art: The Collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison, The Morris Museum, Morris, NJ (catalogue) Color, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Saara Pritchard, Head of Day Sale (Part I) declared: «With strong prices for
works by living artists, The contemporary session I day sale demonstrated the growing depth in the market with new record prices set for Carolee Schneemann (lot 127)
at $ 317,000 and Cheyney Thompson (lot 127)
at $ 317,000.
The Brooklyn - based
artist (he used to
live in Columbus, Ohio) currently has several
works on view
at Housing, Bed - Stuy's newest art gallery, which
lives in American Medium's old haunt, and shows the
work of black
artists, curated
by black
artists.
«As one of the first commissioned
works by a
living female
artist to be installed
at the entrance of an American museum, Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument) will serve as a beacon for the DMA's intent to broaden its collecting and exhibition habits.»
Alchemy, Typology, Entropy
at Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia, features painting and sculpture
by three talented
artists who
live and
work locally: Adam Lovitz, Peter Allen Hoffmann, and Alexis Granwell.
St. Louis Public Radio covers a selection of new African American art exhibitions on view in the city, including «Hands Up, Don't Shoot,» a direct response to the Michael Brown killing organized
by the Alliance of Black Gallery owners and on view
at 14 venues; «Other Ways»
at Philip Slein Gallery featuring than 60
works from local private collections
by artists such as Radcliffe Bailey, Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Ellen Gallagher, Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley; «
Living Like Kings»
at the World Chess Hall of Fame explores the intersection of chess and hip hop; and a presentation of Nick Cave «s Sound Suits
at the St. Louis Art Museum opening Oct. 31.
Inspired
by his memory of
living near the river in Shanghai, Nature C was part of Zhang's four Nature
works that were first presented in his solo exhibition
at the Shanghai Art Museum in 1987, a tumultuous decade for
artists in China and pivotal for Zhang in particular.
Its other prongs include an
artist residency
at her home in Sonoma, California, for
living artists in her collection, as well as scholars and curators whose
work extends the canon and relates to the
artists in her collection; sitting on the boards of museums like the Art Institute of Chicago; publishing critical scholarship, beginning with the 2016 book Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art; and collecting and gifting major
works by black
artists to institutions.