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iconic. iconic. unveils the disruptors of 20th and 21st-century art, showcasing brand-name artists who've subverted the international art world. Celebrate innovators who've left an indelible mark on contemporary art through groundbreaking movements, and are widely known for their distinctive excellence. With artwork spanning 60 years and 13 countries, iconic. features art-world agitators from across the globe. Rediscover noteworthy and contentious household names as this show explores the interconnectedness of disruption and progression over the past six decades. Invest in the artistic legacy of these trailblazers.
Modern Masters John Baldessari Robert Indiana Jasper Johns Alex Katz Sol LeWitt Robert Longo Elizabeth Murray Robert Rauschenberg James Rosenquist Ed Ruscha
Street Art Giants Banksy Blek le Rat Shepard Fairey Futura Richard Hambleton KAWS Cleon Peterson Lady Pink RETNA Swoon
Contemporary Superstars Aboudia Mel Bochner George Condo April Gornik Harland Miller Takashi Murakami Kenny Scharf Ai Weiwei Kehinde Wiley Lisa Yuskavage
VALUE-WEIGHTED ART INDICES VS S&P 500 (TOTAL RETURN) INDICES SINCE 1995 Based on repeat-sales from 1995 to 2020
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This graph highlights how three different segments of the art market have performed over the last 25 years. Noticeably, contemporary art (broadly defined as works created after 1945) demonstrates attractive historical price appreciation, with prices outperforming the S&P 500 over this period, increasing 14.0%.
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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.
Aboudia Untitled, 2018 Acrylic and oilstick on canvas 32.37" x 23.75" Price on request
Aboudia Untitled, 2011 Acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas 59" x 70.75" Price on request
JOHN BALDESSARI American, 1931–2020
It is hard to characterize John Baldessari's varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation— except through his approach of good-humored irreverence. Baldessari is commonly associated with Conceptual or Minimalist art, though he has called this characterization “a little bit boring.” His two-dimensional works often incorporate found images, composed in layers or presented as distinct pieces with an element of surprise, like a brightly colored geometric shape in the place of a face or a starkly printed sardonic caption. Baldessari has demonstrated a lasting interest in language and semantics, articulating these concerns through the use of puns or the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated images and words, as in his 1978 work Blasted Allegories. His self-referencing photomontages and use of text have been sources of inspiration for countless artists, including Cindy Sherman, David Salle, and Barbara Kruger.
John Baldessari Table Lamp and It's Shadows (A1-A6), 1994 Monotype, photo intaglio, cut-out and hand-colored acrylic additions on handmade paper, laminated for thickness 38.25" x 27.25" $45,000
John Baldessari Smoke, Tree, Shadow, and Person (50/50), 2011 Archival inkjet print on woven paper 30" x 30" $8,300
BANKSY British, b.1974
Whether plastering cities with his trademark parachuting rat, painting imagined openings in the West Bank barrier in Israel, or stenciling “We’re bored of fish” above a penguins’ zoo enclosure, Banksy creates street art with an irreverent wit and an international reputation that precedes his anonymous identity. “TV has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting,” he says, “but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.” Banksy gained his notoriety through a range of urban interventions, from modifying street signs and printing his own currency to illegally hanging his own works in institutions such as the Louvre and the Museum of Modern Art. Most often using spray paint and stencils, Banksy has crafted a signature, immediately identifiable graphic style—and a recurring cast of cops, soldiers, children, and celebrities—through which he critically examines contemporary issues of consumerism, political authority, terrorism, and the status of art and its display
Banksy Flower Thrower Triptych (Grey) (VIP) (114/300), 2019 Screenprinted triptych on micron board 43" x 83" Price on request
Banksy Turn Right or Get Shot, 2011 Black tape on street sign 30" x 30" Price on request
Banksy Axe (7/10), 2019 Mixed media sculpture 40.50" x 16" x 10" Price on request
MEL BOCHNER American, b. 1940
Perhaps best known for his colorful paintings of words, Mel Bochner helped pioneer Conceptual art. In 1966, he mounted “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art” at the School of Visual Arts in New York, which is often considered the first exhibition of Conceptual art. The relationships between language, space, and color are recurring themes throughout his practice. In his “Measurement” series, Bochner posts the dimensions of an exhibition space directly on the walls. In his iconic thesaurus paintings, he paints a single word and its synonyms, often in vibrant hues. Bochner’s practice also includes photography. The artist has exhibited widely and enjoyed shows in New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, and Sydney, among other cities. Bochner’s work has been acquired for the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, and Moderna Museet, among others, and frequently sells for six figures on the secondary market.
Mel Bochner No, 2022 Monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper 30" x 22.25" $35,000
GEORGE CONDO American, b. 1957
Painter George Condo populates his canvases with a parade of grotesques; his figures’ bulging eyes, bulbous cheeks, proliferating limbs, and fractured faces evoke the allure and abjection of a carnival. Condo takes inspiration from artists including Pablo Picasso, Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, and Cy Twombly, integrating tenets of abstraction into a practice that ranges from macabre portraiture to more geometrical, less representational compositions. Condo has referred to his surrealistic style as “psychological cubism,” which attempts to capture a subject’s multiplicity, and as “artificial realism” that offers a simulated, distinctly American take on European art history. Condo has participated in the Venice Biennale and exhibited at Tate Modern and the New Museum, among other institutions; today, his work sells for more than $6 million at auction. He famously got his start working as a studio assistant to Andy Warhol. Condo has also created album art for Kanye West.
George Condo The Insane Clown (8/30), 2019 Etching with Drypoint on Paper 22.50" x 20" $29,950
CRASH American, b. 1961
CRASH, born John Matos, began graffiti bombing at train yards in the Bronx at only 13. Taking the name “CRASH” after he accidentally crashed the computer in his school, his name began appearing on trains circulating all throughout New York City. By 1980, he began transitioning from train yards to galleries, curating the groundbreaking "Graffiti Art Success for America" at Fashion MODA that helped elevate the graffiti movement. CRASH’s career took off and he saw instant popularity throughout Europe and America, and eventually Asia. CRASH's work has been part of numerous exhibitions around the world and is in many permanent museum collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His visually iconic work has appeared in partnerships with Absolut Vodka, Fender Guitars, SoBella Handbags, Levi’s, and most recently, Tumi luggage and Morphik. He is the co-owner of contemporary art gallery WALLWORKS NEW YORK and the coowner of Wallworks TWO, a locally driven retail boutique, both in The Bronx.
CRASH Through Express (7/20 AP), 2000 Silkscreen on Arches paper 30.5" x 44" $2,600
CRASH Untitled #5 (3/8 AP), 2000 Silkscreen on Arches paper 30" x 22" $1,300
CRASH Raw Electricity (5/25 AP), 1990 Silkscreen on Arches paper 40" x 31" $2,500
ROBERT CRUMB American, b. 1943
Robert “R.” Crumb emerged in the late 1960s as a leading figure in the “underground comix” movement, publishing the first issue of cult favorite Zap Comix in 1968, and his most recognized comic, Keep on Truckin’ in the late 1970s. Crumb is known for a signature raunchy style, through which he expresses his "contempt and disgust with America." He created the notorious characters Devil Girl, Fritz the Cat, and Mr. Natural, and was the subject of Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb Green Girl, 1980 Oil paint on canvas 20" x 16" Price on request
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.
Jean Dubuffet Personnage au chapeau (Person in a Hat) (38/50), 1962 Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper 25.60" x 19.70" $20,000
SHEPARD FAIREY American, b.1970
Shepard Fairey is an American graphic artist and social activist who blurs the boundary between traditional and commercial art through type and image, communicating his brand of social critique via prints, murals, stickers, and posters in public spaces. “Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions,” he stated. In 1989 Fairey created the André the Giant Has a Posse sticker campaign, featuring a stylized image of the wrestler André the Giant. This project was the foundation for his seminal Obey series, which helped to push Fairey into the public spotlight. The artist is perhaps best known for his Hope (2008) campaign, which portrays a portrait of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, in red, white, and blue.
Shepard Fairey Artichoke Flower, 2022 Handcut rubylith illustration 17.50" x 11.25" $12,000
Shepard Fairey Lotus Pod Study (Red), 2021 Stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper 17" x 12.75" $13,500
SAM FRANCIS American, 1923–1994
The painterly abstraction of Sam Francis is most often associated with the American Abstract Expressionist movement, but Francis also spent a great deal of time in Paris and became linked with the parallel movement of Art Informel in Europe. Francis’ most iconic works are characterized by saturated splashes of color that populate the edges of the canvas in order to emphasize the luminous white void in the center. This contrast between the vibrancy of Francis’ color palette and the austere white picture plane demonstrate the artist’s concern with relationships of space, color, and light, as opposed to the psychologically expressive tendencies of contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock.
Sam Francis Untitled (Lembark L234) (6/75), 1979 Offset lithograph printed in colors on Fabriana Artistico paper 25" x 28.25" $9,500
FUTURA American, b. 1955
Futura (formerly Futura 2000), née Lenny McGurr, pioneered abstract street art in New York during the 1970s. While his contemporaries practiced traditional lettering, Futura combined text, imagery, thin aerosol lines, swaths of vibrant color, and a distinctive use of white space as he created dynamic, futuristic compositions; science fiction and computing technology have long informed his aesthetic. In the 1980s—alongside fellow artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf —Futura began exhibiting works on canvas in fine art gallery settings. In the ensuing decades, he’s exhibited at such institutions as the New Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and his work has sold for six figures at auction. Futura has also collaborated with fashion brands such as Supreme, Comme des Garçons, Nike, and Off-White.
Futura Time Travel, 2022 Silkscreen on 320 gram Coventry Rag paper with hand deckled edges 22" x 30" $3,500
Futura Bedford Ave (16/100), 2019 14 color hand pulled print on Mohawk Superfine Ultrawhite 160lb cover paper 30" x 24" $3,500
Futura East Broadway (16/100), 2019 14 color hand pulled print on Mohawk Superfine Ultrawhite 160lb cover paper 30" x 24" $3,500
APRIL GORNIK American, b. 1953
April Gornik’s enigmatic landscapes draw on both plein-air realism and abstracted memories. In her paintings of sea, sky, forests, and horizons, the artist—who is based in Sag Harbor, New York—focuses on moments of transience and calm; her dramatic skyscapes, for example, alternately feature threatening thunderheads, magisterial clouds, and high-contrast sunrises and sunsets. Gornik received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada, and has exhibited widely in cities including New York, Halifax, and Dayton, Ohio. Her work belongs to the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among other institutions. Through her imposing compositions, Gornik homes in on the mystery and power of American landscapes that are too often taken for granted.
April Gornik Corner Lake, 1996 Oil on Linen 75" x 72" Price on request
RICHARD HAMBLETON Canadian, 1952–2017
Richard Hambleton, often referred to as the “godfather of street art,” pioneered New York’s downtown art scene alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He is best known for his menacing “Shadowmen” and “Horse and Rider” figures—grisly black silhouettes that appear to have been painted mid-explosion. He tagged across the U.S. and Canada before settling in New York in 1979. He tagged Lower Manhattan alleyways through the 1980s, then shifted his attention from the street to the studio, where he made works on canvas and paper. Hambleton showed at the Venice Biennale in the 1980s, yet he was largely forgotten in the ’90s and early 2000s, when his personal battles with illness and addiction alienated him from the art world. Now, Hambleton’s work can now be found in the collections of Brooklyn Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. At auction, his work regularly sells for six figures.
Richard Hambleton Shanghai, 1982 Acrylic on canvas 91" x 54" Price on request
Richard Hambleton Battle Scene Painting, 1983 Acrylic and plastic figurines on canvas 96" x 40" Price on request
Richard Hambleton Shadow (The End Of), 2005 Acrylic and metallic paint on found plastic sign 38" x 30" Price on request
Richard Hambleton Untitled, 1985 Acrylic and Gel on Paper 71.50" x 29.50" Price on request
Richard Hambleton Stop Sign Print (2/75), 2019 Giclee print on aluminum (Dibond) 30" x 30" $10,000
Richard Hambleton Road Sign, 2019 Print on aluminum 30" x 24" $10,000
KEITH HAIRNG American, 1958 - 1990
American artist and social activist, Keith Haring, is best known for his illustrative depictions of figures and symbols. “I don't think art is propaganda,” he once stated. “It should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.” Haring was inspired to draw from an early age by Walt Disney cartoons and his father who was an amateur cartoonist. After briefly studying commercial art in Pittsburgh, Haring came across a show of the works of Pierre Alechinksy and decided to pursue a career in fine art instead. He moved to New York in the late 1970s to attend the School of Visual Arts, and soon immersed himself in the city’s graffiti culture. By the mid-1980s, he had befriended fellow artists Andy Warhol, Kenny Scharf, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and collaborated with celebrities like the singer Grace Jones. Haring’s prodigious career was brief, and he died of AIDSrelated complications on February 16, 1990 at the age of 31.
Keith Haring Untitled (Helmet and Invitation), 1987 Marker pen on helmet and printed paper invitation 6.50" x 11" x 8.50" $39,900
ROBERT INDIANA American, 1928–2018
Robert Indiana was an American Pop artist whose work drew inspiration from signs, billboards, and commercial logos. He is best known for his series of LOVE paintings, which employed bold and colorful letterforms to spell out the word “love.” Following the advice of his friend Ellsworth Kelly, the artist relocated to New York after receiving his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954. It was here that Indiana became acquainted with a number of prominent artists, including Agnes Martin, and James Rosenquist. Over the following decades his work became increasingly popular, with both his LOVE and HOPE motifs transformed into a number of public sculptures. In September 2013, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened “Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE,” the artist’s first retrospective in New York. Indiana died on May 19, 2018 in Vinalhaven, ME. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.
Robert Indiana Chosen Love (87/125), 1995 Skein dyed, hand carved and hand tufted archival New Zealand wool on stretched canvas 119" x 120" $17,750
Robert Indiana HEAL (positive variation) (16/25), 2015 Silkscreen on 2ply Rising Museum Board 33" x 32" $20,500
Robert Indiana HEAL (red, green, blue variation) (PP3/5), 2015 Silkscreen on 2ply Rising Museum Board 32" x 32" $25,500
Robert Indiana Love Is God (16/50), 2014 Silkscreen on 2ply Rising Museum Board 60" x 60" $41,000
Robert Indiana Eternal Hexagon from X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters) (82/500), 1964 Screenprint 24" x 20" $4,500
JASPER JOHNS American, b. 1930
Jasper Johns experimented with seriality, materiality, and appropriation and helped bridge Abstract Expressionism with the modernist art movements that followed, including Pop art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism. Johns often pushed the same motif across various media to explore new possibilities for the image. In his famous paintings of the American flag, Johns referenced both concrete iconography and his own previous versions of artworks. Abstract hatchings are another signature motif for Johns. On paper and canvas, these marks highlight the artist’s conscious control of gesture and form: a major divergence from the bravura brushstrokes of Johns’s Ab-Ex predecessors. Johns spent semesters at the University of South Carolina and Parsons School of Design before dropping out and joining the army. In the 1950s, he was part of New York’s avant-garde arts scene alongside longtime friend, lover, and collaborator Robert Rauschenberg. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo, Cologne, and San Francisco, among other cities. His work belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Tate, and Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
Jasper Johns After Holbein (Associated Artists Against Torture) (39/150), 1993 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper 22.25" x 30" $14,000
JR 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. He has exhibited in cities including New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, and Seoul. 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. 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, Children Treated in the Ellis Island Hospital Revised by JR, U.S.A (2/3), 2014 Color photograph matte Plexi-glass, aluminum, wood (face mounted) 70.75" x 96" Price on request
ALEX KATZ American, b. 1927
New York School painter Alex Katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950s Abstract Expressionism, finding his own distinctive resolution between formalism and representation. His brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art. Well known for his many portraits of his wife and muse, Ada, Katz has also dedicated himself to printmaking and freestanding sculptures of cutout figures painted on wood or aluminum. Katz' work resides in numerous public collections across the world, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
Alex Katz Sasha 2 (75/100), 2016 Archival pigment print in colors on Crane Museo Max paper 33.87" x 33.87" $21,500
KAWS American, b.1974
KAWS, born Brian Donnelly, is a multi-faceted artist straddling the worlds of art and design in his prolific body of work that ranges from paintings, murals, and largescale sculptures to product design and toy-making. His iconic “XX” signature has its roots in the beginning of his career as a street artist in the 1990s, when he began altering found advertisements by incorporating his own masterful paintings. KAWS studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York and went on to work as an animator at Disney after graduating. Evoking the sensibilities of Pop artists like Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, KAWS possesses sophisticated humor and thoughtful interplay with consumer products and collaborations with global brands. He often draws inspiration and appropriates from popular culture animations to form a unique artistic vocabulary and influential cast of hybrid cartoon and human characters.
KAWS x Hajime Sorayama No Future Companion (366/500), 2008 Chrome-coated metal 12.25" x 8" $22,000
KAWS 4FT Companion (Black) (/100), 2007 Fiber-reinforced plastic 50" x 22" x 14" Price on request
KAWS 4FT Companion (Grey) (/100), 2007 Fiber-reinforced plastic 50" x 22" x 14" Price on request
MARI KIM South Korean, b. 1979
Mari Kim calls the recurring figure in her work “Eyedoll,” a cartoon-like, porcelainskinned female distinguished by her large oval eyes. In Kim’s lustrous ink-on-canvas prints, Eyedoll stares directly out from the surface; she dons different outfits and guises while standing against different backgrounds. As Eyedoll shifts through identities, Kim makes subtle alterations to the figure’s iris patterns, matching changes in costume to changes in mood. The relentless seriality of her work attends to questions of how identity can be altered with props and fashion, and it also models a kind of fetishistic Asian female identity that is confrontational in its forwardness.
Mari Kim DanChung, 2021 Genuine gold leaf and silver leaf plated, acrylic paint used on canvas 51" x 51" $38,650
Mari Kim Song for Nobody, Letter No,1, 2021 Acrylic pen, color spray paint, and oil paint on canvas 43.3" x 36.6" $28,000
Mari Kim Across the Universe, 2021 Acrylic pen, Acrylic paint used, Genuine gold leaf plated on canvas 64" x 51" $45,000
EDUARDO KOBRA Brazilian, b.1976
Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra utilizes bright colors and bold lines while staying true to a kaleidoscope theme throughout his art. The technique of repeating squares and triangles allows him to bring to life the famous people he depicts in his images. This checkered pattern, filled with different textures, lines, and shading, builds up to Eduardo Kobra’s final masterpiece, a larger than life photorealistic mural. The artist officially began his career at the age of 12 years old and has painted over 3,000 murals on five different continents since. In 2016 Eduardo Kobra made the headlines for creating his illustrious 32,000 square-foot mural Las Etnias (The Ethnicities) that lined Olympic Boulevard at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Eduardo Kobra Pablo Picasso, 2019 Spray paint and acrylic on canvas 60.75" x 77" Price on request
JEFF KOONS American, b. 1955
One of the most famous artists working today, Jeff Koons makes gleeful, tongue-incheek sculptures, paintings, and installations that border—and often cross—the edge of good taste. Exploring ideas of commodity, spectacle, celebrity, and consumption, Koons has made monumental balloon dogs, a series about his lusty relationship with Italian porn star Cicciolina, cast-aluminum pool toys, a gold-painted porcelain sculpture of Michael Jackson, and a giant sculpture that resembles both Play-Doh and a heap of dung. Though the artist resists complex interpretations of his work, Koons’s innovative fabrication processes have elevated him far above the designation of simple provocateur. Koons received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and has exhibited extensively in New York, London, Chicago, Basel, Seoul, and elsewhere. His work belongs in the collections of The Broad, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has sold for nearly $100 million on the secondary market.
Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey (Orange) (251/999), 2017 Highly reflective orange porcelain 9.9" x 15.5" x 8.24" Price on request
Jeff Koons Balloon Swan (Yellow) (574/999), 2017 Highly reflective yellow porcelain 9.5" x 8.25" x 6.44" Price on request
Jeff Koons Balloon Swan (Magenta) (534/999), 2017 Highly reflective magenta porcelain 9.5" x 8.25" x 6.44" Price on request
SOL LEWITT American, 1928 – 2007
Sol LeWitt famously stressed the importance of the ideas that animated his artwork over the particulars of their execution. A leading figure of the Conceptual and Minimalist movements, he maintained a practice that included drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation, sculpture, and writing. He is perhaps best known for simple, geometric drawings and wall paintings and for his “structures”: modular sculptures of cubed forms, variously constructed from steel, polyurethane, wood, or concrete. LeWitt also received attention for his writings on the nature of Conceptual art. To “install” his wall paintings, contemporary exhibition spaces must follow a set of instructions the artist left behind. LeWitt received his BFA from Syracuse University. After graduating, he took classes at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (now the School of Visual Arts), worked as a graphic designer and, later, worked shifts at the Museum of Modern Art alongside artists such as Dan Flavin and Robert Mangold. His work has been exhibited in a number of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, the Centre Pompidou, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami; it also belongs in the collections of countless museums including the Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, Dia Beacon, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.
Sol LeWitt Color Bands, Plate #01 (49/75), 2000 Linocut in colors on Somerset paper 29" x 29" $14,500
Sol LeWitt Color Bands, Plate #03 (49/75), 2000 Linocut in colors on Somerset paper 29" x 29" $14,500
Sol LeWitt Color Bands, Plate #04 (49/75), 2000 Linocut in colors on Somerset paper 28.75" x 28.75" $14,500
Sol LeWitt Color Bands, Plate #06 (49/75), 2000 Linocut in colors on Somerset paper 28.75" x 28.75" $14,500
ROBERT LONGO American, b. 1953
Robert Longo is known for large-scale, hyperrealistic charcoal portraits that consider power, authority, and social unrest. In the early 1980s, Longo earned acclaim for his bold “Men in the Cities” series, which features business-suited subjects posed in uncanny contortions. Since then, he has depicted scenes from the Occupy Wall Street movement, the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, Black Lives Matter protests, and refugee migrations. A member of the loose cohort of Pictures Generation artists who repurpose mass media images in their artwork, Longo has drawn on photographs and art historical works for inspiration. He often uses a monochromatic palette, carefully building his charcoal surfaces to create a sense of depth and contrast. Longo has exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among other institutions. On the secondary market, his work has sold for seven-figure prices. Longo’s practice also includes photography, performance, and sculpture.
Robert Longo Jules (6/10 AP), 1982-83 Lithograph with embossing on Arches 36.50" x 21" $25,000
Robert Longo Ivy Mike (9/15), 2010 Archival pigment print on Epson Hot-Pressed paper 44.63" x 34" $21,000
HARLAND MILLER British, b. 1964
British artist and novelist Harland Miller is best known for painting canvases that resemble Penguin book covers. The motif allows him to explore the relationships between words, images, and the process of producing meaning—themes he embraces in his sculptures and mixed-media works, as well. Miller is interested in authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway and artists including Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, Anselm Kiefer, and Robert Rauschenberg. On his paintings, he occasionally invents witty book titles—like Hate’s Outta Date! (2017) or International Lonely Guy (2002), for example—to send up classical literary tropes. Celebrities including Ed Sheeran and Rachel Weisz have collected Miller’s work, which has sold at auction for six-figure prices. Miller has exhibited around the world, with solo shows in London, Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris, and New York, among other cities.
Harland Miller Overcoming Optimism (44/50), 2014 Screenprint in colors on wove paper 54.33" x 43.31" $30,000
Harland Miller 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 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" $43,000
Harland MIller The Me I Never Knew (4/50), 2013 Silkscreen print in colors on wove paper 49" x 39" $47,000
ELIZABETH MURRAY American, 1940–2007
Elizabeth Murray is best known for vibrant, large-scale shaped canvases that unite elements of abstraction with forms that variously evoke cartoons and domestic objects such as tables and coffee cups. From the 1960s through the 2000s, the artist collaged, knotted, twisted, and warped her surfaces, often building them up with paint and otherwise letting them protrude, sculpturally, into the exhibition space. The exuberant results often feature explosive fields of color. Murray’s work has been exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Beijing and belongs in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Murray presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale, just before her untimely death. Her paintings have sold for six figures on the secondary market.
Elizabeth Murray Quartet (1/3 PP), 1989-90 Set of four etching and aquatints on Arches En Tout Cas paper and Fabriano Esportazione paper 18" x 14" $8,500
CLAES OLDENBURG Swedish, 1929 – 2022
Since the 1960s, Claes Oldenburg has worked at the forefront of the Conceptual and Pop art movements, and he’s best known for his monumental public sculptures of everyday objects. These include Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks (1969, reworked 1974) in New Haven, Connecticut; Clothespin (1976) in Philadelphia; Shuttlecocks (1992) in Kansas City; and Cupid’s Span (2002), a gigantic archer’s bow in San Francisco. These pieces epitomize Oldenburg’s irreverent sense of humor and fascination with American consumerism, qualities which have also pervaded his performances, drawings, writings, and famous “soft sculptures”—cushiony, unserious objects that resemble diner foods and other symbols of Americana. Oldenburg’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Moderna Museet, and the Centre Pompidou. At auction, many of his sculptures—including those of a clothespin, a depiction of a flexed muscle, french horns, a dress, a trowel, a sewing machine, and a typewriter eraser—have sold for more than $1 million. Oldenburg often collaborated with his late wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009.
Claes Oldenburg Knife Ship Superimposed on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (68/75), 1985 Color screenprint on white Coventry Rag paper 21.50" x 28.25" $12,000
YIGAL OZERI Israeli, b. 1958
Yigal Ozeri succinctly summarizes his current practice as follows: “I paint women in nature.” Though he insists that his large-scale, photorealistic paintings are “reality,” because they are based on videos and photographs he takes of his subjects, his 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.
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" Price on request
JOSÉ PARLÁ Cuban-American, b. 1973
Primarily a painter of murals, paintings, and works on paper, José Parlá also produces installations, video, sculpture, and photographic works that explore or respond to urban landscapes. Parlá’s large-scale compositions resemble city walls that, like palimpsests or psychogeographic maps, have accrued years of ephemera, posters, and fliers; he blends curvy gestures, calligraphy, and personal inscriptions with blurred color fields, using brushes, markers, spray paint, and sometimes fragments of fliers and posters. Parlá has produced several public commissions, including a giant mural at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn. “With making abstract painting,” he has said, “I felt that what I was doing and what I’m still doing is translating the many different cultures and many different languages that I’m confronting.”
José Parlá Exile and the Kingdom (33/50), 2019 Archival pigment print with unique impasto, powdered paint, hand-drawing, and mono-transfer overlay on white rag paper 25" x 42" $15,500
CLEON PETERSON American, b. 1973
With an aesthetic rooted in graphic design and a style reminiscent of Greco-Roman vases, Cleon Peterson’s work depicts a world in which deviance is the norm. His dystopian scenes evoke Thomas Hobbes’ description of life as a war between individuals and symbolize a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. Peterson received his MFA from The Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, MI and BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He now lives and works in Los Angeles. His allegorical works contrast good with evil, and violence with victim in the tradition of Caravaggio, Goya, and Delacroix. In 2018 Peterson’s work was featured in a solo exhibition, entitled Cleon Peterson: Shadow of Men, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. His work resides in numerous notable private collections worldwide.
Cleon Peterson Burning City, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 72" x 72" Price on request
Cleon Peterson A Vision of the Future, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 84" x 84" Price on request
Cleon Peterson Untitled (Soldier), 2015 Diptych, acrylic on panel 96" x 48" $45,000
LADY PINK Ecuadorian-American, b. 1964
Sandra Fabara, aka, Lady Pink, was born in Ecuador, raised in Queens, New York, and studied at the High School of Art & Design in Manhattan. While a student there, she met a group of graffiti artists and began writing at age fifteen. She was soon well known as the only prominent female capable of competing with the boys in the graffiti subculture. Lady Pink painted subway trains from the years 1979-1985. She appeared in theaters in the starring role of Rose in Charlie Ahearn’s 1983 film Wild Style and quickly acquired hip-hop, cult figure status. Lady Pink’s canvases are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. They were featured in the major exhibitions “Art in the Streets” at the LA MOCA and “Graffiti” at the Brooklyn Museum. Lady Pink continues to mature as an artist, selling work internationally and producing ambitious murals commissioned for universities, corporations and institutions
Lady Pink Unity Tree, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 112" x 93.25" Price on request
Lady Pink Sisters Oh Sisters, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 114.50" x 115.37" Price on request
BLEK LE RAT French, b. 1951
Blek Le Rat, born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, was one of the very first graffiti artists in Paris and has been described as the “Father of Stencil Graffiti” Blek was first introduced to graffiti during a trip to New York City in 1971 where he was inspired to bring the style back to Paris, adapting the stencil as a more fitting technique for French architecture. He is best known for stenciling a giant graphic image of a rat all over Paris in the early 1980s, which to him symbolized both freedom and the dissemination of art through the city as if it were the plague. Blek, who has influenced generations of urban artists around the world, boasts a subtle social commitment and considers his images as a gift he gives to the city. His works often represent solitary individuals that can be encountered in the urban space– women, children, the elderly, and a diverse range of contemporary characters. In a desire to bring the people of the city closer to art, he quotes the great classics such as Caravaggio, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. “I would like to bring the characters out of museums to return them to the people of the city.” His street art has appeared in cities across the world, and he has exhibited in New York, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and beyond.
Blek le Rat Young Picasso, 2021 Acrylic and aerosol on linen 43" x 38.5" $42,000
Blek le Rat Liszt, 2022 Acrylic and aerosol on linen 44.5" x 40" $41,000
Blek le Rat Richard Hambleton Tribute, 2022 Acrylic and aerosol on linen 83" x 52" Price on request
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG American, 1925–2008
Over the course of his six-decade career, Robert Rauschenberg embraced pop culture, technical experimentation, and material eclecticism. Today, he’s perhaps best known for his radical, three-dimensional “Combines”—which he composed from discarded materials and mundane objects such as sheet metal, newspaper, tires, and umbrellas—and for his colorful silkscreen paintings on which he screen-printed, then painted over, collaged photographs sourced from books and magazines. In 1964, Rauschenberg made history when he became the first American to win the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. In the years since, Rauschenberg has been the subject of solo shows at the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Moderna Museet, among other institutions. His work belongs in collections worldwide and has sold for tens of millions at auction.
Robert Rauschenberg Health (from Tribute 21) (59/50), 1994 Lithograph in colors with vegetable dye water transfer on Arches Infinity paper 41" x 27.25" $8,500
Robert Rauschenberg Dwan Gallery Poster (/Unknown), 1965 Offset lithograph in colors 23" x 25" $4,000
RETNA American, b.1979
RETNA is an American street artist known for his unique typography and letterforms. RETNA combines visual linguistics, urban poetics, and appropriated fashion imagery to explore an eclectic range of media, including graffiti, photography, and painting. “It is important to have art in the streets as a cultural fabric that is woven into the city for the upliftment of civic pride,” he once stated. Born Marquis Lewis, he joined the Los Angeles mural scene as a teenager, developing his text-based signature style featuring intricate line work, complex layering, and a wide range of color. Painting with a brush in addition to a spray can, the artist achieves highly detailed line work. He has exhibited at venues throughout the world, notably including L.A. Art Machine in Los Angeles, Don Gallery in Milan, Yves Laroche Galerie d’Art in Montreal, and Art for All in Malaga, among others. The artist continues to live and works in Los Angeles, CA.
RETNA Starving Children, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 66" x 108" Price on request
RETNA Retna Mural, Panel 1, 2017 Acrylic paint on board 60" x 48" Price on request
RETNA Retna Mural, Panel 4, 2017 Acrylic paint on board 60" x 48" Price on request
JAMES ROSENQUIST American, 1933–2017
Leading Pop artist James Rosenquist—who came to prominence among New York School figures like Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Willem de Kooning—is well known for his large-scale, fragmented works that bring the visual language of commercial painting onto canvas (notably, from 1957-60, Rosenquist earned his living as a billboard painter). In his use of mass-produced goods and vernacular culture rendered in an anonymous style, Rosenquist's work recalls that of Andy Warhol, while his seemingly irrational, mysterious pictorial combinations owe a debt to Surrealism. His breakthrough work, the iconic F-111 (1965)—51 panels that total over 22 by 24 feet—juxtaposes an American fighter plane with a Firestone tire, garish orange tinned spaghetti, and a young girl under a hair dryer.
James Rosenquist Ice Point (145/150), 1983 Lithograph on Arches Cover paper 33.50" x 24.25" $5,500
ED RUSCHA American, b. 1937
Despite being credited with a Pop sensibility, Ed Ruscha defies categorization with his diverse output of photographic books and tongue-in-cheek photo-collages, paintings, and drawings. Ruscha’s work is inspired by the ironies and idiosyncrasies of life in Los Angeles, which he often conveys by placing glib words and phrases from colloquial and consumerist usage atop photographic images or fields of color. Known for painting and drawing with unusual materials such as gunpowder, blood, and Pepto Bismol, Ruscha draws attention to the deterioration of language and the pervasive cliches in pop culture, illustrated by his iconic 1979 painting I Don’t Want No Retro Spective. “You see this badly done on purpose, but the badly-done-onpurpose thing was done so well that it just becomes, let’s say, profound,” he once said. Equally renowned were his photographic books, in which he transferred the deadpan Pop style into series of images of LA—apartments, palm trees, or Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962), his most famous work.
Ed Ruscha x Kenny Scharf NAMES (24/30), 2016 Lithograph 31" x 22" $8,600
Ed Ruscha x Kenny Scharf Puddle People (27/30), 2016 Lithograph 22" x 30.75" $8,600
KENNY SCHARF American, b. 1958
Muralist, painter, sculptor, and installation artist Kenny Scharf is best known for his fantastical, large-scale paintings of anthropomorphic animals and imagined creatures. Though Scharf’s brightly colored imagery is generally playful, he has remarked that darker themes exist beneath the surface of his works, visible upon closer inspection. Scharf moved to New York to receive his BFA, where he became a part of the 1980s East Village Art movement alongside Keith Haring. The artist says he has been influenced by all 20th-century art movements, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the latter reflected in his appropriation of cartoon characters from television shows like the Flintstones and Jetsons and his humorous depiction of snack food. Scharf’s oftentimes dense and frenetic compositions also echo a Baroque sensibility.
Kenny Scharf Bravia Sony Suno, 2021 Oil on Sony flat screen tv 32.75" x 50.25" x 5.12" Price on request
Kenny Scharf Furungle Black (23/25), 2021 Archival pigment ink print with silkscreened high gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper 42" x 42" $10,000
Kenny Scharf Furungle Blue (23/25), 2021 Archival pigment ink print with silkscreened high gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper 42" x 42" $10,000
DAVID SHRIGLEY British, b. 1968
David Shrigley finds meaning in snippets of text and overheard conversations. His crude and cartoonish ink drawings, usually exhibited salon-style, recall pages from the sketchbook of a cheeky adolescent. Tackling serious issues, such as unemployment and child welfare, as well as more absurd subjects, including sexual fantasies about a squirrel, his fragmented narratives can be both poignant and funny. In a 2011 exhibition, Shrigley included a dead stuffed kitten that stood on its hind legs carrying a hand-lettered protest sign that read, “I’M DEAD.”
David Shrigley Warhol Lives (10,12), 2019 Linocut on wove paper 29.50" x 22" $9,000
SWOON American, b. 1977
American street artist Swoon is best known for her large-scale wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts. Often depicting portraits of her friends and family, her work involves a wide-ranging practice that includes installation and performance. Using reclaimed materials whenever possible, Swoon’s images are often printed on recycled newspaper and glued onto abandoned buildings, bridges, and street signs around the world. “There is power on the walls of the city, and I fell in love with every part of that,” said the artist. Born Caledonia Dance Curry, Swoon moved to New York to received her BA in fine arts at the Pratt Institute in 2002. Her work gained recognition after a solo show at Jeffrey Deitch’s Soho gallery in 2005, quickly attracting the attention of gallerists and museum curators. The artist’s site-specific solo show Submerged Motherlands at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014 was the museum’s first exhibition dedicated to a living street artist.
Swoon Arielle 5, 2019 Silkscreen, acrylic gouache, hand cut paper, on found object (glass and wood) 21" x 24" $4,900
Swoon Girl from Ranoon Province, 2021 Screenprint and hand painting on mounted linoleum tile 14.25" x 15.25" $6,000
Swoon Argentina, 2022 Silkscreen, cut paper and acrylic gouache on paper and wood 24" x 34" $7,200
Swoon Braddock Steel, 2013 Acrylic on found door 79.25" x 30.25" x 1.75" $38,000
BERNIE TAUPIN British, b. 1950
A renowned songwriter-turned-visual artist, Bernie Taupin considers himself a storyteller first and foremost. He views art as a visual extension of his song lyrics. Taupin works in an abstract expressionist style that incorporates elements of pop art, synthesizing the signature styles and ideologies of Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. Using house paint, oil paint, wood stains, and spray paint, Taupin mobilizes color and form to convey emotions. Bright colors in oblong shapes connote affection, while dark colors with fragmented edges are associated with pain. When he worked as a songwriter for Elton John, Taupin channeled an affinity for the American West into his lyrics; now he cites urban environments as inspirations for his paintings.
Bernie Taupin American Burka, 2004 Wrapped fabric, twine, wire, barbed wire, lock on mannequin 68" x 19" x 20" Price on request
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.
Vhils Dicey Series #22, 2019 Hand cut and laser-cut advertising posters 70" x 47" $48,000
Vhils Ataxia 12, 2013 Hand-carved old wooden doors assembled 86.76" x 59.10" Price on request
Vhils Fossilize Series #3, 2012 Collage in Resin, posters collected from the street, spray paint, lasercut and crystal epoxy 29" x 18" $45,000
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 Finger (from the Ex-Votos Series), 2018 Wood 12" x 3.75" x 2.5" $19,850
Ai Weiwei Artist’s Hand (/1000), 2017 Cast urethane resin multiple with electroplated rhodium 5.25" x 5" $11,000
KEHINDE WILEY American, b. 1977
Kehinde Wiley restages classical portraits and sculptures, replacing historical white subjects with contemporary subjects of color. His lush, narratively rich canvases draw on textile patterns and the compositional tenets of Old Masters such as Peter Paul Rubens and Jacques-Louis David. Embracing ornate decorative elements, Wiley dignifies his subjects and subverts the whiteness that has long dominated Western art history. The artist received his MFA from Yale in 2001 and has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, and Milan, among other cities. His work belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Nasher Museum of Art, among many others, and his paintings have sold for six figures on the secondary market. In 2018, Wiley painted Barack Obama’s presidential portrait. In 2019, he launched the Black Rock Residency program in Senegal, which fosters younger artists’ careers and Africa’s broader art ecosystem.
Kehinde Wiley The Gypsy Fortune -Teller (13/48), 2007 Jacquard Tapestry in Italian Cotton and Italian Viscose 71.25" x 98.50" Price on request
LISA YUSKAVAGE American, b. 1962
Lisa Yuskavage makes color-saturated paintings of brazen, doll-like women who shift freely between playful sexuality and sullen contemplation. She renders her subjects in confrontational and pinup poses, situating them in fantastical landscapes or beneath dramatic skies. Yuskavage’s compositions recall Surrealist scenes, yet they embrace a more transgressive, contemporary edge. The artist received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and has exhibited in New York, London, Mexico City, Paris, Milan, and Los Angeles. Her work belongs in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Long Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has sold for more than $1 million at auction. Yuskavage also maintains an extensive printing and drawing practice.
Lisa Yuskavage Hippies (13/23), 2015 Eight color giclée with offset lithography in two colors 36.50" x 32.50" $13,500
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