Rodney Graham - Under the Influence New York Thursday, March 8, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
    Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York

  • Artist Biography

    Rodney Graham

    Canadian • 1949

    Rodney Graham pulls from cultural and intellectual history through photography, film, music, performance and painting. He presents narratives with puns and references to literature and philosophy, including Sigmund Freud and Kurt Cobain, with a sense of humor that contradicts his residence in the post-punk scene of late 1970s Vancouver.

    In his film trilogy Vexation Island (1999), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999) and City Self/Country Self (2001), the artist plays characters like a castaway and a cowboy caught in repetitive cycles of actions and gestures. Such unconscious dream states are further explored in Graham's series of upside-down photographs of oak trees, which are hung to mimic camera obscura.

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Ponderosa Pines, Princeton B.C./ CAT hi-way yellow

1992
five c-prints
each 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
This work is number eight from an edition of 15.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $10,625

Under the Influence

8 March 2012
New York