Rodney Graham - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, November 17, 2006 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Belgium; Private Collection, London

  • 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

1990
Gelatin silver print.
90 1/2 x 70 7/8 in. (229.9 x 180 cm).
This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist. This work is from an edition of one.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $96,000

Contemporary Art Part II

17 Nov 2006, 10am & 2pm
New York