A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How the Art World s Most Coveted Residency Chooses Its Artists—and Who s Up Next artnet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artnet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: ONE BUT TWO (Haadzii) @ Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
Roberts Projects // June 05, 2021 - July 02, 2021
June 03, 2021 | in Painting The main story from the outside is capturing the emotions and the person s spirit, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe told us in our Winter 2021 Quarterly. Who the person is. And then I add the dressing. You know how we Black people dress! You know how we want to stand out as people. We dress in a statement way. We want to look so powerful! So I add all those kinds of things. Things you see when you walk into a Black neighborhood. Things that make us unique.
We bring you the inside scoop on who is selling what.
May 13, 2021
Auction houses remain mum about consignors for big ticket lots but we ve got you covered. Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images.
The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really
going on in the art market.
While Sotheby’s won this auction season’s largest collection Texas rancher Anne Marion’s $150 million trove rival Christie’s had to put together its sales more or less lot by lot.
It was difficult. Christie’s had to reel in sellers with aggressive guarantees. One of the its biggest fish was private equity executive Thompson Dean.
By Arnesia Young on May 10, 2021
“Sitter,” 2019
Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California (Photo: Robert Wedemeyer)
While bathing his viewer in a world awash with vibrant color, Ghanaian artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe forces them to look and truly see the figure staring back at them from the canvas. His evocative portraits explore what it means to be Black in America whether you’re from here or not. And it’s impossible not to be drawn in by the arresting intensity of each subject’s gaze and their cool, collected demeanor. Behind each person is a life and a story.
121.9 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in)
Price: $18,000
Davide Balliano s luscious paintings defy simple categorisation. Layers of plaster, gesso and varnish build up to create an illusion of three dimensions that suggest never ending space. There is something animated about his work the repetitive loops and optical play of black and white are dizzying and make for truly happy yet sophisticated paintings.
Courtesy of the artist and Cardi Gallery
UNTITLED 0174, 2020
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Price: $24,000
In his use of a carefully constructed visual language of minimalist forms and repeating patterns, Davide Balliano’s paintings are at once both visually dynamic and unexpectedly vulnerable. What at first glance appears to be a restricted precise rendering of bold black and white forms, on closer look reveals subtle surfaces on which the artist scrapes back the apparent perfection. The combination of gently worked surfaces and weighty