Rodney Graham - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 14, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

  • 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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Flanders Trees

1993

Five black and white photographs in custom built wooden portfolio.

Each: 14 x 10 7/8 in.(35.6 x 27.6 cm) paper size.

Signed and numbered “R Graham AP” on portfolio interior. This work is an artist’s proof from an edition of 12.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Contemporary Art Part II

14 May 2010
New York