Rodney Graham - Under the Influence New York Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

  • 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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Main Street Tree

2006
chromogenic print
90 x 73 in. (228.6 x 185.4 cm)
This work is from an edition of 4 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

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Under the Influence

New York Auction 4 March 2015 11am