Provenance
Bortolami Gallery, New York
Catalogue Essay
Certain words aren't good when you describe an artwork - like 'sentimental', 'romantic', 'poetic' and 'pretty'. But those are my favourite qualities of anything.

- Jack Pierson

(Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Press Release)

Jack Pierson’s practice involves an array of media including wall-drawings, word-pieces, installations, drawings, paintings and photographs. His works combine to tell a tale of isolation and longing, each one a story of love, desire, loss, hope and loneliness. His neon installations including the present work, Some fucked up notion of a dream, can be considered an extension of the artist’s word pieces. The glowing mix of color, scale and typeface evokes the pulsating rhythm of street life, particularly the experience of walking down a big city street and observing one’s surroundings, alone. Pierson visually alludes to love through his use of reds and pinks and compositionally creates a sense of disconnect. The bold, literal references to sex and dreams result in a striking yet chilling portrait of the dark, isolated depths of the mind. Pierson's work continuously finds itself in a state of flux, discovering and developing new means of expression.

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Jack Pierson

Some fucked up notion of a dream

2005
Neon.
95 5/8 x 157 1/2 x 2 in. (242.9 x 400.1 x 5.1 cm).

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000

Sold for $116,500

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 March 2011
New York

1
Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton
Paint Cans (from Dear Ketel One drinker hello again)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $27,500
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Freischwimmer 20
Estimate $30,000 - 40,000
Sold for $50,000
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Urs Fischer
Ohne Titel (Geige)
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $146,500
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Christopher Wool
Untitled
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
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Cady Noland
No Title
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
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Albert Oehlen
Das Gewicht der Ladung
Estimate $70,000 - 100,000
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Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (Pink Butterfly Green mg03)
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
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Jim Hodges
Once Together / Apart
Estimate $350,000 - 450,000
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Michaël Borremans
The Veils
Estimate $150,000 - 250,000
Sold for $170,500
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Thomas Ruff
Zycles 3041
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
Sold for $98,500
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Piotr Uklański
Untitled (Eagle, American)
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
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Jack Pierson
Some fucked up notion of a dream
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Raymond Pettibon
No Title (Measuring Up)
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Andy Warhol
Detail of the Last Supper / Be a Somebody with a Body
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Sold for $602,500
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Rudolf Stingel
Untitled (After Sam)
Estimate $700,000 - 900,000
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Steven Parrino
Untitled
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Tire Planter, black)
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
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Jack Goldstein
Untitled
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
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Andy Warhol
Vesuvius
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
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Tom Sachs
Chanel Fountain
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
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Ross Bleckner
Pausing and inhaling
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
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Raoul De Keyser
Untitled
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Keith Haring
Untitled
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
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Donald Judd
Untitled 1978 (7.78 Judd)
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Agnes Martin
Untitled
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
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Ugo Rondinone
Sunrise, august, west
Estimate $150,000 - 200,000
Sold for $182,500
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Gregor Hildebrandt
Wenn ich mir was Wünschen dürfte [M.D. auf Omas Tapete]
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Banks Violette
Black noise (Ampeg BA - 115) for S.P.
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Adel Abdessemed
Le mythe de Sisyphe
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Richard Phillips
NEW MUSEUM
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
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