Dan Colen - New Now London Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Peres Projects, Los Angeles
    Private Collection, Germany

  • Artist Biography

    Dan Colen

    American • 1979

    American artist Dan Colen has spent most of his career asking himself questions about the editorial decisions artists have to make when creating a scene from scratch on canvas. In his early work, Colen painted mundane interiors punctuated with fantastical elements. This manifested as part of a growing curiosity in the ethereal or divine intervention.

    Colen subsequently stepped away from paint as material and started using found objects as mediums with which to paint. Among these, Colen has used chewing gum, street trash, confetti, feathers, flowers and dirt. This methodology allows Colen to abandon control and create in a more free-form, subconscious manner.

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Untitled

2007
chewing gum on canvas
75 x 100.4 cm (29 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.)
Signed and dated 'Dan Colen 2007' on the overlap.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

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Tamila Kerimova
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New Now

London Auction 13 April 2016