Sheree Hovsepian - NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today New York Monday, June 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

  • Catalogue Essay

    Sheree Hovsepian

    Born 1974, Isfahan, Iran

    1999 BFA/BA University of Toledo, Ohio
    2002 School of the Institute of Chicago

    Selected exhibitions: Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago (2018); The Drawing Center, New York (2017); Brooklyn Academy of Music (2016); Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2013); Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago (2011, 2015, 2018)
    Selected honors: Residency, Drawing Center, New York (2016); Artist in Residence, The Banff Centre, Canada (2015); Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2014)
    Selected public collections
    : Art Institute of Chicago; The Bronx Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Spertus Museum, Chicago; The Studio Museum in Harlem

    Made with silver gelatin photographs and nylon, Swell is a multimedia work by Sheree Hovsepian. Combining photographs of anatomical fragments with stretched nylon fabric, she creates textured fields that suggest arching landscape-like forms with a literal and figurative feminist overlay. Discussing her process, Hovsepian explains: “I feel an urge to work with my hands in an additive process as opposed to the way I see straight photography. I approach materials from a kind of naïve perspective that I experience as very freeing and in contrast to photography, which is more about precision and control.”

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Swell

signed, titled and dated on the reverse
gelatin silver prints collage and nylon, in artist's frame
25 x 21 1/8 x 4 in. (63.5 x 53.7 x 10.2 cm.)
Executed in 2018.

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NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today

New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019