Rodney Graham - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 18, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Ars Publicata, Rodney Graham, 2002.02

  • 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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Oxfordshire Oak, Bandord Fall

1990
Gelatin silver print, on photo paper.
I. 11 1/2 x 9 in. (29.2 x 22.9 cm)
S. 18 1/2 x 15 7/8 in. (47 x 40.3 cm)

Signed, dated and numbered 466/500 in black ink on the reverse, framed.

Estimate
$800 - 1,200 

Sold for $3,429

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 18 - 20 April 2023