Austin International Art Fair - Featuring Gil Bruvel
Featuring & artists from 42 countries 22
AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 29
Gil Bruvel Featuring
ABOUDIA
ALBAN
HAROLD ANCART
ROBY DWI ANTONO
ZHONG BIAO
GIL BRUVEL
NICHOLAS BYRNE
ALEXANDER CALDER
MARC CHAGALL
SANDRA CHEVRIER
SALVADOR DALI
GREG DAVIS
JEAN DUBUFFET
CHIOMA EBINAMA
DIONISIO GONZALEZ
CONOR HARRINGTON
GUO JIN
JR
MARI KIM
FIKA LEON
CRYSTAL LIU
TAFADZWA MASUDI
TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA
JUAN MEJIA
HARLAND MILLER
YUE MINJUN
JOAN MIRO YIGAL OZERI
A.R. PENCK
PABLO PICASSO
CONRAD SHAWCROSS
BERNIE TAUPIN
VICTOR VASARELY
MARIO VELEZ
VHILS
MASSIMO VITALI
AI WEIWEI
ZHANG XIAOGANG
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West Chelsea Contemporary proudly presents the Austin International Art Fair –Featuring Gil Bruvel, a celebration of artistic brilliance that brings together 42 artists from 22 countries, each contributing to a global dialogue through their unique artistic voices. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in art that transcends geographic and cultural boundaries, reflecting the diverse and vibrant heritage of our world today. Included in Austin International Art Fair’s impressive roster are modern masters from Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró to Salvador Dalí and Alexander Calder whose works belong to permanent collections at the world’s most prestigious institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, and Tate Modern Contemporary Chinese artists such as Yue Minjun, Ai Weiwei, and Zhang Xiaogang have each been representatives at the Venice Biennale International Street Art icons from Aboudia to Fika Leon and Vhils have become notable for their performance in the global art market. West Chelsea Contemporary invites you to experience the rich cultural tapestry of contemporary art and expand your collection with exceptional works that resonate on a global scale.
Featured in Austin International Art Fair is internationally acclaimed sculptor Gil Bruvel. Born in Australia and raised in the South of France, Bruvel now lives and works in Wimberly, Texas Celebrated for his ability to translate profound reflections on the human condition into striking, meditative works of art, Bruvel uses thousands of wooden shafts to create his neo-surrealist and abstract sculptures. His innovative works have been exhibited worldwide in prestigious venues such as the Musée des Baux-de-Provence, France, and the Fuorisalone Milan Design Week, Italy With a strong global presence, Bruvel’s art is represented by galleries in France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, China, Qatar, Dubai, and the United States, underscoring his significant impact on the contemporary art scene
Join us at Austin International Art Fair and enrich your collection with works that connect you to the cultural tapestry of our world today. Engage with this international dialogue and connect with the global artistic heritage that continues to shape and inspire our world today
Gil Bruvel
Breathing, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
34" x 30" x 18"
$43,000
Out of the Maze, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
19" x 14" x 10"
$14,000
Gil Bruvel Invisible Mind, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
17 5" x 14" x 9"
$14,000
Gil Bruvel
Gil Bruvel
Dreamer #2, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
30" x 30" x 15"
$41,000
Just Being, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks with pigmented wood stain
45" x 36" x 40"
Price on request
Gil Bruvel
Bruvel City Limit, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
26" x 13" x 11"
$15,000
Cubic #6, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
29" x 18" x 18"
$24,000
Gil Bruvel
Gil
Gil Bruvel
Time Traveler #4, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
25" x 20" x 36"
Price on request
Finding the Balance, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
Gil Bruvel
18" x 16" x 9"
$14,000
The Beginning, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
Gil Bruvel
24 5" x 25" x 10"
$16,000
Bruvel
City Minded #2, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
23 5" x 20" x 12"
$23,000
City in the Clouds, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
22 5" x 16" x 11"
$19,000
Gil
Gil Bruvel
Gil Bruvel
Ocean Mind, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
28 5" x 22" x 25"
$32,200
Gil Bruvel
Mask #293, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
12 5" x 10" x 7"
$10,000
Gil Bruvel
Limitless, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
10" x 10" x 7"
$9,200
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
Price on request
Gil Bruvel
Lucid Mind, 2024
48" x 44" x 20"
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
7" x 20" x 5"
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
7 50" x 16" x 4 25"
$4,500
Gil Bruvel
Cloud #1, 2023
$5,200
Gil Bruvel
Cloud #2, 2023
Gil Bruvel Night Cloud, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
26" x 27" x 9 75"
$16,000
Wavelengths #5, 2024
Wood sticks, cubes and paint
63" x 43" x 8"
$42,000
Gil Bruvel
Gil Bruvel
Wavelengths #8, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
43" x 43" x 7"
$35,000
Gil Bruvel
Ebb and Flow, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
64" x 44" x 8"
$42,000
Gil Bruvel
Wavelengths #6, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
26" x 26" x 5 25"
$19,000
Gil Bruvel
Wavelengths #3, 2024
Wood sticks, cubes and paint
19" x 20" x 4 5"
$12,000
Gil Bruvel Evolving, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
29" x 12" x 12"
$18,000
Gil Bruvel
Cubic #10, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
38" x 18" x 18"
$24,000
Equilibrium, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
25" x 15" x 15"
Gil Bruvel
$18,000
Stacked wooden sticks and paint 20" x 20" x 9"
$20,700
Time Traveler #6, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint 11" x 9" x 6 5"
$9,200
Gil Bruvel
Gil Bruvel Voyager, 2024
Gil Bruvel
Pyramid Mind, 2024
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
21" x 16" x 18"
$19,550
Mask #39, 2020
Wood and paint
16" x 16" x 8"
$12,650
Mask #258, 2022
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
10" x 10" x 6"
$9,300
Gil Bruvel
Gil Bruvel
Gil Bruvel
Mask #140, 2021
Wood and paint
19 34" x 20" x 12 14"
$20,700
Mask #137, 2021
Wood and paint
15.34" x 15.34" x 8.50"
$12,650
Mask #184, 2022
Wood and paint
16" x 16" x 8"
$12,650
Gil Bruvel
Gil Bruvel
Stacked wooden sticks and paint
Gil Bruvel
Threshold, 2020
16" x 16" x 18"
$17,250
ABOUDIA
Ivorian, b 1983
Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, known as Aboudia, chronicles the street scene in his city of Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire. In his vibrant, large-scale mixed-media paintings and drawings, which recall those of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Aboudia takes inspiration from the aesthetics of graffiti and traditional African carvings. He has depicted youths in his city’s toughest neighborhoods and the violent post-election conflict that ravaged Abidjan in 2011. While his recurring skull, soldier, and bullet motifs speak to unthinkable trauma and brutality, Aboudia’s bright color palettes reinforce the enduring innocence of the children who live amid the chaos Aboudia has exhibited widely across Côte d’Ivoire and in London, Paris, New York, and Marrakesh, among other cities. His work has been acquired by Saatchi Gallery, the Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art, and on the secondary market, it has sold for six figures
32 37" x 23 75"
Price on request
Aboudia
Untitled, 2018
Acrylic and oilstick on canvas
59" x 70 75"
Price on request
Aboudia
Untitled, 2011
Acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas
ALBAN
French, b 1967
French artist Alban creates unique paintings related to wartime nose art Drawing inspiration from aircraft wrecks and industrial machinery, Alban creates an illusion of heavy metal objects through paint on wood. He draws his inspiration from aircraft wrecks and industrial machinery, but his scale is distorted, colours are magnified and the subject itself is often invented His Contemporary Pop-Art style focuses on bold expression with color and scale. After spending most of his childhood in Africa, Alban returned to his birth country of France to receive a BA in Advertising and Graphic Design and a MA in Animated Movies from Ecole des Gobelins art school in Paris. After working as a set designer in cinema for 12 years, Alban started his career as a full-time artist. Since then, his art has been exhibited in art galleries around the world, from Paris and New York to London and Hong Kong.
Alban Japan, 2019
Mixed media on wood: metal, cardboard, acrylic, and epoxy
35.40" x 35.40" x 4"
$4,800
Alban
Air Nederland, 2018
Mixed media on wood: metal, cardboard, acrylic, and epoxy
47 25" x 47 25" x 2"
$6,800
Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Albertina Museum, and the Centre Pompidou.
Harold Ancart
Untitled, 2012
Oilstick and soot on c-print mounted on wood
24" x 36"
$35,000
ROBY DWI ANTONO
Indonesian, b 1990
Roby Dwi Antono’s stylized portraits of wide-eyed children and mythological creatures recall the works of Pop surrealists Javier Calleja, Mark Ryden, and Yoshitomo Nara. Fusing fantastical imagery with classic Renaissance aesthetics, Antono draws upon themes of heroism, pop culture, and macabre humor to illuminate the contradictions of the human experience In his painting Joy & Sorrow (2019), an innocent-looking young girl stands over a dead animal, holding its severed head behind her back. Antono’s work is extremely popular with collectors; his drawing Lonesome Hero #3 (2021) sold for a record $30,000 at Artsy’s “Art Keeps Nonprofits Going IV” benefit auction in 2021. Antono’s works have been exhibited in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Melbourne, and at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2021. Antono is a self-taught painter, illustrator, and sculptor, and has a background in graphic design
Roby Dwi Antono FLOWER BOY!, 2019
Pencil on paper
11 50" x 10 25"
$15,500
Chinese, b 1968
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primarily with acrylic on raw canvas, blending realistic figures with surrealistic objects and abstract gestures. Zhong derives the dreamlike quality of his work from the multitude of unsettling juxtapositions of old and new in contemporary China In Welcome, part of his 2007 series “American Debut”, he depicts children in 1960s Cultural Revolution-era garb, Han Dynasty terracotta figurines, beauty pageant imagery, and English language banners Widely considered one of China’s most significant and recognizable contemporary artists, Zhong captures the intense simultaneity of everyday experience, layering dozens of conflicting images and deploying negative space and blank swaths of the canvas to complicate their relationships to each other, spatial and otherwise
ZHONG BIAO
A Sudden Glance, 2006
50 75" x 37 75"
$19,900
Zhong Biao
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
NICHOLAS BYRNE
British, b 1979
symbols and forms, with the recurrence of fan-like motifs and geometric shapes, which the artist overlays with areas of color rendered in different textures. His canvases often reveal a personal symbolism, inherited from modernist performances, and have been compared to the translucent work of the 19th-century Swedish clairvoyant painter and mystic Hilma af Klint (1862–1944). Byrne graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005 and since has exhibited his work internationally. Byrne lives and works in London.
Nicholas Byrne Cropper, 2010
Oil on linen laid on aluminum
55 12" x 27 62"
$4,500
made of industrial materials––often poetic and gracefully formed and at times boldly colored––that hang in an uncanny, perfect balance. His complex assemblage Cirque Calder (1926–31), which allowed for the artist’s manipulation of its various characters presented before an audience, predated Performance Art by some 40 years. Later in his career, Calder devoted himself to making outdoor monumental sculptures in bolted sheet steel that continue to grace public plazas in cities throughout the world
Alexander Calder Homage to Joan Prats (/100), 1965
Lithograph in colors
22 75" x 50"
$17,500
MARC CHAGALL
Belarusian-French, 1887-1985
Honored for his distinct style and pioneering role among Jewish artists, Marc Chagall painted dream-like subjects rooted in personal history and Eastern European folklore. He worked in several mediums, including painting, printmaking, and book illustration, and his stained glass windows can be seen in New York, France, and Jerusalem Chagall arrived in Paris in 1910 and began experimenting with Cubism, befriending painters Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger. Chagall’s style has been described as a hybrid of Cubism, Fauvism, and Symbolism, and his supernatural subjects are thought to have significantly influenced the Surrealists Though he actively engaged in the Parisian artistic community, art for Chagall was first and foremost a means of personal expression. He preferred to be considered separately from other artists, his imagery and allegory uniquely his own.
Lithograph in colors on Arches
37" x 26"
$24,500
Marc Chagall
The Four Seasons (/100), 1974
SANDRA CHEVRIER
Canadian, b 1983
Sandra Chevrier paints women’s faces, then paints snippets from famous comic books on top always leaving the subjects’ fierce gazes uncovered. The hyperrealistic portraits explore notions of heroism, vulnerability, and gender expectations in American pop culture. Chevrier graduated with a BFA in visual and media arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal and has since exhibited in London, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Berlin, among other cities. Chevrier has produced a number of public works and collaborated with clients including the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the LINE Hotel in Austin, and Palms Casino Resort
La cage où le brouillard traverse l’esprit, 2017 Oil on canvas
12" x 12"
$5,000
Sandra Chevrier
SALVADOR DALÍ
Spanish 1904-1989
“irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena.” In addition to meticulously painting fantastic compositions, such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929) and the melting clocks in his famed The Persistence of Memory (1931), Dalí was a prolific writer and early filmmaker, and cultivated an eccentric public persona with his flamboyant mustache, pet ocelot, and outlandish behavior and quips.
Hand-colored drypoint etching
26" x 19 68"
Salvador Dalí Surrealist Bullfight "Bullfight with Parrots" (89/100), 1967
$27,500
1967
Hand-colored etching
15" x 11"
$10,945
1968
Hand-colored etching
15" x 11"
$11,000
Salvador Dalí Faust "Knight and Death" (94/145),
Salvador Dalí Apollinaire "Woman Horse and Death" (35/145),
Salvador Dalí Circé (24/150), 1969
Drypoint etching
15" x 22"
$12,500
GREG DAVIS
American
$3,000
Greg Davis
Los Zancudos, Oaxaca (11/50), 2024
Archival pigment print on museum rag paper
18" x 27"
Greg Davis
Turkana Girl, Kenya (18/50)
Archival pigment print on museum rag paper
24" x 24"
$2,500
at Qeswachaka Peru (22/50), 2016
pigment print on museum rag paper
Greg Davis
Reflections
Archival
30" x 45"
$4,900
JEAN DUBUFFET
French, 1901-1985
Jean Dubuffet’s material experimentations, thickly built-up surfaces, and raw, expressionistic brushstrokes and helped expand the boundaries of painting in the 20th century. The artist coined the term “Art Brut” to define his mode of artmaking: He drew inspiration from the innocent, unrefined style of prisoners, children, and the institutionalized Dubuffet’s practice also spanned drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, and he occasionally combined all his pursuits into multimedia pieces accompanied by live performances. Materials such as cement, plaster, tar, and asphalt heightened the deliberate crudeness of his work Dubuffet briefly studied traditional painting methods at the Académie Julian in Paris and only settled into his mature style years later. His work has been exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam and belongs in the collections of Moderna Museet, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Stedelijk Museum, the Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Dubuffet’s canvases have sold for up to eight figures on the secondary market.
Personnage au chapeau (Person in a Hat) (38/50), 1962
Lithograph in colours on Arches wove paper
25 60" x 19 70"
$20,000
Jean Dubuffet
CHIOMA EBINAMA
American, b 1988
Enigmatic and delicately rendered, Chioma Ebinama’s works on paper capture an animistic world populated by the artist’s singular iconography. She is known for collages, watercolors, and prints that combine Black figures with motifs drawn from West African cosmology and Eastern and Western folk and spiritual traditions. An MFA graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, Ebinama first received critical recognition with her presentation at the 2018 Spring/Break Art Show in New York. Her solo exhibition of drawings and prints, made with indigo dye and kozo paper, was inspired by pre-Columbian and Ibo imagery and conveyed the artist’s origin story of an imagined goddess. For Ebinama, use of mythologies and precolonial philosophies is a means of claiming authorship over her personal narrative, and exploring themes of identity, trauma, and self-liberation in a globalized world marked by deep iniquity
Chioma Ebinama Gathering (/100), 2020
Offset lithograph in colors
10" x 8"
$1,200
DIONISIO GONZALEZ
Spanish, b 1965
Dionisio González is a prominent Spanish photographer renowned for his explorations of architecture, urban landscapes, and the interaction between human habitation and the environment. His work challenges perceptions of space, blending reality with imaginative interventions to create thought-provoking compositions. The photographs are heavily processed accumulations of time, and information, condensed seamlessly within a single moment. As a post-digital maker, Dionisio González exploits photography and challenges the medium’s preconceived neutrality and objectivity assumptions At the same time he challenges himself as being as much a photographer than a virtual architect. His photographs prompt viewers to reflect on the implications of urbanization and technological advancement on our sense of place and identity. González’ work has been exhibited at institutions worldwide, including: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Cleveland; Musée d’Art Contemporain (CAPC), Bordeaux; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museo de Arte Moderno (MAMBO), Bogotá; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
19 70" x 78 80"
$18,000
Dionisio Gonzalez
Halong IV (4/7), 2009
C-print, diasec, mounted on dibond and aluminum
JIN Chinese, b 1964
g , , Arts Institute, graduating from the oil painting department in 1990. His work consists primarily of figurative paintings, frequently taking young children as his subject matter in a juxtaposition of youth within China's own development. After graduating in the early '90s, he exhibited his work throughout China, significantly in Guangzhou Biennale's 1992 oil painting exhibition. As art institutions and infrastructure have grown within China, he has participated in an increasing number of shows, often with his brother, the artist Guo Wei Today the artist participates in a small but lively group of artists in Chengdu who have received international recognition in the last few years. His works have been exhibited by the world’s most renowned auction houses including Phillips, Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
GUO
Guo Jin
Dawn No 15, 2008
Oil on linen
86 50" x 118"
$29,500
French, b 1983
JR’s practice lies at the intersection of photography, street art, film, and social practice. The artist is best known for his site-specific public interventions, which usually feature large-scale, black-and-white photographs overlaid on building façades, stadium seats, and a variety of other architectural and landscape features. His practice often comments on such issues as incarceration, immigrant rights, and poverty yet JR infuses his work with joy and hope for change. In 2018, JR collaborated with TIME magazine on The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America, creating a magazine cover, video mural, and interactive website which included an exhibition at Pace Gallery. In 2022, JR and TIME magazine worked together again to create the Resilience of Ukraine cover, which captured the unfurling of a 148ft photograph in Lviv, Ukraine. JR’s work belongs in the collections of the Musée de l’Elysée, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum Frieder Burda. Major exhibitions and installations of JR’s work have been held at museums around the world including Centre Pompidou, France; Louvre, France; Brooklyn Museum, USA; SFMOMA, USA; and Kunsthalle München, Germany In addition to his public interventions, JR has produced a number of films, including a collaboration with the famed French director Agnès Varda. JR
Unframed, Self-Portrait In Front of "Homme Accoudé Sur Une Table" 1915-1916, Pabloc Picasso, Paris, France (11/99), 2014
Lithograph printed on Marinoni machine on 270gsm BFK Rives paper
28" x 40"
$4,500
Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 21 mai 2021, 20h03, Paris, France, 2021 (232/247), 2021
Giclée Print Laminated with G-gloss, Mounted on 3mm Dibond
25 19" x 37 79"
$2,495
Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 19 mai 2021, 19h57, Paris, France, 2021 (231/247), 2021
Giclée Print Laminated with G-gloss, Mounted on 3mm Dibond
25 19" x 37 79"
$2,495
Mari Kim
DanChung, 2021
Genuine gold leaf and silver leaf plated, acrylic paint used on canvas
Fika Leon is a self-taught Indonesian artist who currently resides in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His style draws inspiration from his intimate experiences, his episodic memories, his reflections on identity, and his sense of place. Characterized by Basquiat-like bold, vivid colors and abstract shapes, Leon’s oeuvre mostly features the representation of contorted human figures and purposefully distorted faces, which at times distinctly reveal the influence of Indonesian folklore and visual imagery. According to Jonathan Toh, co-founder of the Singapore-based art gallery All About Art, Leon is one of the most successful examples of a new generation of Southeast Asian artists who manage to “blend seemingly traditional techniques and content with a new interpretation of what contemporary art should be.” Leon has begun exhibition his work worldwide and recently set an auction record of $113,315 in 2022 at Sotheby’s
Fika Leon Wisdom of Everyone, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
55" x 47 25"
$19,500
CRYSTAL LIU
Canadian, b 1980
Crystal Liu is a Canadian-born Chinese artist currently based in San Francisco, California. Through her work, Liu transforms elements of nature – the night, stars, clouds, fleshy mountains, willow trees, blood, water, owls, octopuses, and flowers –into a lexicon of characters that enact extraordinary tales based on her private joys and sorrows Often likened to Chinese landscape painting, each element of Liu’s works are layered with meaning. Using a diverse array of materials - from fabric and textured paper to gold leaf and ink - Liu constructs landscapes as metaphors for the intangible forces that drive human beings from within The complexities of life, from hopefulness to desolation, are carefully infused into the landscapes of her work, alluding to truths from the artist’s own private life. Liu’s work has been exhibited internationally in Asia and throughout the United States. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Microsoft Inc., and the Progressive Art Collection, among others.
a balancing act "standing still", 2017
Ink, gouache, watercolor, and collage on paper
Crystal Liu
44" x 30"
$12,500
TAFADZWA MASUDI Zimbabwean, b
1988
Tafadzwa Masudi is a Zimbabwean-born self-taught artist who lives and works in Cape Town. Masudi started painting at a young age in Harare while assisting a friend of the family who introduced him to the visual arts. In 2010 he migrated to South Africa where he worked in a clothing factory until 2020 when he was laid off. This turn of events provided him with the opportunity to pursue painting full-time, leading to his artwork being featured in group exhibitions in Cape Town.Reflecting on his own experiences as a migrant, he explained, “Circumstances forced me to leave my country of birth and become a migrant I relate to people who had to travel elsewhere to create a better life, and this is what I currently paint. Images that show their sense of self, their dreams, and their aspirations.” Masudi’s brightly colored paintings depict scenes filled with balloons, people, and patterns. Reflecting on his environmental and social experiences as a foreigner in a new country his works reflect on optimism and the pursuit of a better future. In 2022 Masudi began exhibiting internationally and has since been featured at the Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, AKAA (Also Known As Africa) Art Fair, Paris, and Blond Contemporary, London.
Tafadzwa Masudi Mukoma Fungai, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
51 16" x 47 24"
$9,600
TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA
American, b 1976
fantastical paintings, which explore themes of globalization and national identity in the age of the internet. The artist, who grew up between Japan and America, loads his large-scale canvases (sometimes irregularly shaped or divided into panels) with references to his bicultural background: He has taken inspiration from Pop art and manga, cowboys and samurai, graffiti and the Meiji era, Abstract Expressionism and woodblock printing. Matsuyama imbues his energetic scenes with a playful, highoctane color palette The compositions often blur the boundaries between domestic interiors and the natural world. Matsuyama received his MFA from Pratt Institute in 2004. Since then, he has exhibited in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, among other cities. Matsuyama has completed a number of public art commissions, producing towering sculptures and murals around the world.
Digital print with screen printed colour layers, various glitter elements and high gloss varnish on Somerset 330gsm enhanced satin paper
31 50" x 18 90"
$6,500
Tomokazu Matsuyama Broken Train Pick Me Up (33/100), 2021
JUAN MEJÍA
Colombian, b 1965
The work of Colombian artist and architect Juan Mejía occupies the terrain between intention and form. Working in a variety of media, from the plasticine material Sintra to rusted bronze, Mejía’s sculptures are starkly minimal while refusing the coldness that often typifies this genre. After studying architecture in his hometown of Medellin, Mejía traveled internationally and undertook studies in Vienna, Rotterdam, and Berlin. In addition to their international cultural background, the artist’s works share a close relationship with his career in architecture, which deepens their relationship with form, geometry, and the city
Origami No.6A (2/7), 2007
Cut, folded steel plate – rust finish
88.50" x 14" x 14"
$14,800
Origami No.7 (2/7), 2007
Cut, folded steel plate – rust finish
85 50" x 13" x 13"
$14,800
Juan Mejía
Juan Mejía
Juan Mejía
Totem No.1, 2013
Black-orange cut, folded and lacquered stainless steel plate
77 75" x 15" x 15"
$17,500
Juan Mejía
Totem No.8, 2013
White-orange cut, folded and lacquered stainless steel plate
77 50" x 18" x 18"
$17,500
HARLAND MILLER
British, b 1964
Writer and artist Harland Miller explores the relationship between words and images and the process of producing meaning in his paintings, sculptures, and mixedmedia works. Interested in canonical authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway and drawing influence from Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, Anselm Kiefer, and Robert Rauschenberg, Miller pointedly combines text and images to comment on the frequent disconnect between representation and reality. For one series of paintings, he transformed canvases into satirical Penguin book covers, inventing keenly witty titles like The Me I Never Knew (2009) to send up classical literary motifs. The (often torturous) process of writing itself is the subject of another series, in which Miller covers vintage typewriters with splashes of paint, giving the works titles like, Writing is easy all you do is feed in a sheet of white A4 paper and stare at it till your forehead bleeds (2009)
Don’t Let The Bastards Cheer You Up, 2016
Acrylic, glitter, and graphite on hand finished print
46 50" x 33"
Price on request
Harland Miller
Harland Miller
The Me I Never Knew (4/50), 2013
Silkscreen print in colors on wove paper
49" x 39"
$35,000
Harland Miller
Five Ring Circus-It's All Fun and Games Till Someone Loses an Eye (14/50), 2012
Giclée print in colors on German etching paper
37 50" x 29 37"
$30,000
Overcoming Optimism (44/50), 2014
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
54 33" x 43 31"
$30,000
Harland Miller
In his oil paintings, Yue Minjun often inserts himself in iconic moments in art history, painting exaggerated self-portrait figures in candy colors. The figures bear wide smiles with gaping mouths as they enact poses from the works of Caravaggio and other artists from the Western canon. Transforming himself into an icon, the artist has said, “was not meant as a self-portrait in its traditional sense, but something more like a movie star acting in different roles.” Surrealism was an early influence on Yue, who shot to the top of an explosive Chinese contemporary scene as a member of the Cynical Realist movement, his serious political criticism and social commentary hidden behind the mask of his smiling faces. In another series, Yue turned his practice on its head, recreating famous Western and Chinese socialist paintings as empty settings with their subjects removed.
Untitled (from The Giants of Contemporary Chinese Art Portfolio) (17/99), 2005
21 90" x 29 40"
$8,500
Yue Minjun
Lithograph
p y g y y linear abstractions proved a foundational influence on Abstract Expressionism
Joan Miró
L’Escalier de la Nuit (/75), 1970
Etching with aquatint in colors
24 5" x 32"
$35,000
Joan Miró Le Puisatier (/75), 1969
Etching and aquatint in colors
41 75" x 26 25"
$27,500
33 5" x 23 75"
$19,500
Joan Miró
The Illiterate with Red Squares (/75), 1969
Lithograph on red and white checkered cloth pasted against Mandeure chiffon paper
y p g p j works are also infused with a Pre-Raphaelite sense of fantasy, imagination, and ethereality Ozeri often catches his female protagonists in pensive, dreamy states, seeming to merge with their natural surroundings. In a series from 2010, he painted Lizzie Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger, in a wintry Central Park, New York, rendering each strand of her flowing chestnut hair, the rich textures of her clothing, and the glint of sunlight on her clear skin with brilliant clarity.
Price on request
Yigal Ozeri
Untitled, Ai Weiwei, 2022 Oil on canvas 54" x 36"
Price on request
Yigal Ozeri
Untitled, Yayoi Kusama, 2022 Oil on canvas
36" x 54"
participated in Documenta, and showed at institutions including the Gropius Bau and the Tate. His work has sold for six figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Tate, the Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, among others
A. R. Penck
Reclining Figure (17/35), 1983
Etching
21" x 29"
$4,300
PABLO PICASSO
Spanish, 1881 - 1973
grew to include over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs. He painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), in response to the Spanish Civil War; the totemic grisaille canvas remains a definitive work of anti-war art At auction, a number of Picasso’s paintings have sold for more than $100 million. The indefatigable artist has been the subject of exhibitions at the world’s most prestigious institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art and Centre Pompidou to the Stedelijk Museum and Tate Modern.
Pablo Picasso Sculpteur au Travail (/20), 1964
Aquatint 21" x 16.25"
$35,000
Pablo Picasso
Deux Clowns (/50), 1954
Lithograph in colors
29" x 21"
$29,500
CONRAD SHAWCROSS
British, b 1977
Museum in London where he created Protomodel, an installation of five projects displayed alongside the museum’s scientific exhibits that paid homage to the museum's mathematics section on his practice, variously referencing models, functions, and instruments.
Conrad Shawcross Plosion 3, 2015
Aluminium and glass
46 50" x 59 25" x 44 25"
$32,500
American Burka, 2004
Wrapped fabric, twine, wire, barbed wire, lock on mannequin
68" x 19" x 20"
Price on request
Bernie Taupin
Victor Vasaraly
Oeuvre Vert et Orange (/250), 1980
Screenprint
26 25" x 26 25"
$3,950
Victor Vasarely Louisiana I (from the Louisiana Portfolio) (234/275), 1985
Screenprint
28" x 28"
$4,950
Victor Vasarely Purple Long (21/250), 1977
Silkscreen
34 25" x 20 50"
$6,950
Victor Vasarely Papillon (184/250), 1981
Silkscreen
27 50" x 34"
$6,950
Screenprint
25 50" x 25 25"
$3,950
Victor Vasarely Ion 7 (from Hommage a L’Hexagone) (33/200), 1969
Victor Vasaraly Composition Cinetique (/60), 1970
Screenprint
29" x 31 5"
$2,500
The work of Colombian artist Mario Vélez is best characterized by the artist's clever combination of the two most identifiable trends in abstract art, uniting the structural and geometric with the intuitive and organic. During the 1980s and 1990s Vélez studied art internationally, in his native city of Medellin, as well as Vienna and Berlin. This invaluable experience coalesced in three visual languages that the artist continues to work in today: the forms of pre-Colombian culture, the language of abstraction, and the color of expressionism. Vélez has exhibited his artwork worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, among others. The artist lives and works in Medellin, Colombia.
MARIO VÉLEZ Colombian, b 1968
$39,900
Mario Vélez
Atlas, 2014-2015
Oil, polyester and acrylic on canvas 95" x 74"
Mario Vélez
Guerras Pequeñas, 2008
Oil and acrylic on canvas
23 60" x 94 50"
$18,900
VHILS
Portuguese, b 1987
Vhils, the pseudonym of Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto, has become synonymous with his signature approach to street portraiture. Working both outdoors and indoors, his large-scale, detailed images are achieved by scratching, drilling, and using bleach to tear away at billboards, walls, and found panels. The subjects therefore become one with the architecture and detritus that Vhils uses as both substrate and medium. His groundbreaking bas-relief carving technique has been hailed as one of the most compelling approaches to art created in the streets in the last decade Challenging the notion that graffiti art is socially disruptive, Vhils sees the medium as a force to push the boundaries of the politics of communication in the social arena. An avid experimentalist, Vhils has been developing his personal aesthetics in a plurality of media besides his signature carving technique: from stencil painting to metal etching, from pyrotechnic explosions and video to sculptural installations. Since 2005, he has presented his work in over 30 countries around the world.
Hand-carved old wooden doors assembled
86 76" x 59 10"
Price on request
Vhils
Ataxia 12, 2013
Vhils
Dicey Series #22, 2019
Hand cut and laser-cut advertising posters
70" x 47"
$37,500
MASSIMO VITALI
Italian, b 1944
Massimo Vitali is famous for his large-format color photographs of beach scenes Throughout the 1960s, he worked as a photojournalist for European magazines and agencies. In the early 1980s, losing faith in his medium’s ability to adequately capture reality, Vitali shifted to cinematography and worked on television and film. Eventually, he returned to using the still camera for the purpose of creative research. Vitali began capturing panoramas of sun-soaked beaches in his native Italy in 1995, immortalizing their crowds, architecture, and natural beauty. He’s since widened his scope, shooting beachgoers in Turkey, Spain, and beyond Vitali has exhibited in New York, London, Vienna, Tokyo, and Rome, among other cities, and his work has been acquired by the Guggenheim, the Museo Reina Sofía, and the Elton John Collection. While Vitali’s photographs capture a hazy, Mediterranean beauty, they also consider leisure, voyeurism, and conformity
Mural-sized chromogenic print, front-mounted to acrylic, flush-mounted to aluminum 59 75" x 75"
$45,000
Massimo Vitali
Les Menuires Quartett 3 (No. 0568) (9/9), 1999
AI WEIWEI
Chinese, b 1957
A cultural figure of international renown, Ai Weiwei is an activist, architect, curator, filmmaker, and China’s most famous artist. Open in his criticism of the Chinese government, Ai was famously detained for months in 2011, then released to house arrest. “I don’t see myself as a dissident artist,” he says. “I see them as a dissident government!” Some of Ai’s best known works are installations, often tending towards the conceptual and sparking dialogue between the contemporary world and traditional Chinese modes of thought and production. For Sunflower Seeds (2010) at the Tate Modern, he scattered 100 million porcelain “seeds” handpainted by 1,600 Chinese artisans a commentary on mass consumption and the loss of individuality. His infamous Coca Cola Vase (1994) is a Han Dynasty urn emblazoned with the ubiquitous soft-drink logo. Ai also served as artistic consultant on the design of the “Bird’s Nest” stadium for Beijing’s 2008 Olympics, and has curated pavilions and museum exhibitions around the globe.
Ai Weiwei
Artist's Hand (X/1000), 2017
Cast urethane resin multiple with electroplated rhodium
5 25" x 5" x 5"
$8,475
Ai Weiwei
Finger (from the Ex-Votos series) (1/1), 2018 Wood
12" x 3 75"
$15,750
ZHANG XIAOGANG
Chinese, b 1958
Relying on memory to recreate a highly personal version of his country’s history, Zhang Xiaogang makes art that is as much about himself as it is about China’s past. The grim imaginary families in his “Bloodlines: The Big Family” paintings of the 1990s and his 2005–06 series of grisaille portraits in oil reveal countless narratives about the aspirations and failures of the Cultural Revolution as well as Zhang’s own emotions. Like the blank visages of the individuals in these paintings, Zhang’s brass and concrete sculptures of figures, as well as implements used for recording history (such as fountain pens, notebooks, and light bulbs, all 2009), appear compressed and distorted by memory, age, and some unknown force.
30
$7,000
Zhang Xiaogang
Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
25" x 37"
30
$7,000
Zhang Xiaogang
Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
25" x 37"
30
$7,000
Zhang Xiaogang
Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
25" x 37"
Zhang Xiaogang
Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
37" x 30 25"
$7,000
Zhang Xiaogang
Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
37" x 30 25"
$7,000
Zhang Xiaogang
Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
37" x 30 25"
$7,000
West Chelsea Contemporary is much more than the typical gallery. Offering worldclass art in a dynamic, interactive setting WCC produces museum-quality exhibitions year-round with programming that is free and open to the public.
West Chelsea Contemporary’s collection includes artists influential to Pop Art, Street Art, Graffiti, Post-Graffiti and contemporary art as well as tastemakers of these movements. With a local, national, and international roster of represented artists, West Chelsea Contemporary situates artwork from the primary market alongside a highly curated selection of pieces from the secondary market This novel display of represented, emerging and mid-career artists alongside Blue Chip masters increases each artist’s exposure and serves to make connections between their work.
