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Phillips is pleased to announce a seminal work by Yoshitomo Nara as a major highlight of the recently announced Hong Kong-Beijing dual-location 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in collaboration with Poly Auction. Executed in the watershed year of 2000, as Nara finally returned to Japan following twelve years of artistic apprenticeship in Germany,
Missing in Action is among the rarest works on canvas by the artist to come to auction. Created the same year as Nara s auction record work, which crowned him the position of the most expensive Japanese contemporary artist, it was also in 2000 that Nara was honoured with his first museum solo exhibitions in America, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Exhibition features a dozen new paintings and a site-responsive wall drawing by Keltie Ferris
Keltie Ferris, TBT, 2020-2021. Oil on canvas in the artist s frame. Canvas: 80 by 70 in. 203.2 by 177.8 cm. Framed: 83 by 73 in. 210.8 by 185.4.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting its fifth solo presentation of work by Keltie Ferris. FEEEEELING features a dozen new large-scale paintings and a site-responsive wall drawing, a first for the artist. The exhibition is on view from April 16May 29.
Over the past fifteen years, Ferris has developed his exuberant and complex approach to abstract painting using a variety of methods including spray gun, dry pigment and hand-painted fields. The new paintings in FEEEEELING belong to a few distinct stylistic groups, each an evolution from Ferriss previous work.
James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Elias Sime
TIGHTROPE: ECHO!?, 2021. Reclaimed electrical components on panel with two megaphones, 45 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 16 in. 114.9 x 120 x 40.6 cm.
NEW YORK, NY
.-James Cohan is presenting TIGHTROPE: ECHO!?, an exhibition of new work by Elias Sime, on view at 48 Walker Street from March 19 through April 24. This is Simes fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan. TIGHTROPE: ECHO!? is accompanied by an essay written by curator and anthropologist Meskerem Assegued, with whom Sime co-founded the Zoma Museum.
Elias Sime deftly weaves, layers and assembles materials into abstract compositions that suggest topography, figuration, and sublime color fields. The history of his materials hold meaning, as they are the backbone of all communication systems, whether they be telephone or computer. They suggest the tenuousness of our interconnected world, alluding to the frictions between tradition and progress, human contact and social networks, nat