Rodney Graham - The Sky In A Room New York Friday, August 11, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Hauser & Wirth, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • 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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chromogenic print, flush-mounted
90 x 72 7/8 in. (228.6 x 185.4 cm.)
Executed in 2006, this work is number 2 from an edition of 4 plus 1 artist’s proof.

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The Sky In A Room

New York Selling Exhibition 14 July – 11 August 2017