Mark Handforth - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 16, 2006 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    “Mark Handforth possesses the increasingly rare ability to make sculptures that engage the eye, the body, and the mind. With an incisive wit and visual sophistication, the Miami-based artist pairs the handmade with appropriated everyday objects, making subtle alternations and juxtapositions to reference modernist design, Minimalist sculpture, street subcultures, and roadside Americana. To great effect, Handforth plays representation against abstraction, the rough against the refined, and art history against itself. He frequently exhibits multiple works at once, making installations of casual associativeness that, as 2004 Whitney Biennial curator Debra Singer notes, “suggest a constant state of flux—a process of being rearranged, constructed, and dismantled all at once.”” (Brian Sholis, Terminal Five, New York, 2004)

1

Starman

2004
Fluorescent lights.
Overall 84 1/4 x 74 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (214 x 189 x 13 cm.)


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $114,000

Contemporary Art Part I

16 Nov 2006, 7pm
New York