Yearly Archives: 2012

Gouaches, Watercolors, and Drawings

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Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at UCLA, Berkeley, before moving to New York City in the early 1950s. Amdist the frenzy of Abstract Expressionism, Button remained true to his interest in realism, and is now most commonly associated with such New York School artists as Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher, and Alex Katz. Concerning Button, Bill Berkson has written: “The scaled-up perceptual intimacy his best paintings assert is part of what the realist wing of the New York School developed, beginning in the ’50s, as a counterthrust to—as well as an absorption of—abstraction’s headlong specifying of applied paint.”

Studio Drawings

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John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and drew from life models throughout his career. However, little known are his sketches of male nudes—studio models from the School of Visual Arts (where Button taught), as well as personal acquaintances. Tim Dlugos writes: “The setting and the artist’s tools are as stripped down as the models: a naked man, a pencil, and a sheet of paper. Button creates erotic tension in these drawings not by addition . . . but by a remarkable effective process of subtraction.”

Jack Walls

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1982

Signed in blue ink by Michael Ward Stout, Executor of the Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe, verso
Also stamped and dated, verso
Additionally inscribed with title, date, and edition number (5/10), verso
Further inscribed “MAPP-367” and “972,” verso

Mounted gelatin silver print

20 x 16 inches, sheet

Sold.

Charm Alone, 1965

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(from the series Scarred for Life),
1994

Marked AP

Offset lithographic print (Edition of 50, plus 3 APs)

31.5 x 23.625 inches, sheet
34 x 26.5 inches, frame

Contact gallery for price.

Tracey Moffatt

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Tracey Moffatt is a prominent Australian artist who works primarily in photography and video. Born in Brisbane, Moffatt holds a degree in Visual Communications from the Queensland College of Art, where she was also awarded an honorary doctorate in 2004.

Moffatt’s work has exhibited widely throughout Australia, the United States, and Europe, including her 2017 solo exhibition at the 57th Venice Biennale, “My Horizon.” Her films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival; The Dia Art Foundation, New York City; and the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris.

Her works are included in the collections of the Tate, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and many others. Moffat currently lives and works in New York City and Sydney.

Mona Kuhn

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Mona Kuhn is best known for her large-scale photographs of the human form. Her approach is unusual in that she develops close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable intimacy, rendering the subjects naked yet comfortable in their own skin.

Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the U.S. and earned her B.A. from Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, and occasionally teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Kuhn’s first monograph, “Photographs,” was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by “Evidence” (2007), “Native” (2010), “Bordeaux Series” (2011), and “Private” (2014).

Kuhn’s work has been exhibited at The Louvre and Le Bal, Paris; Whitechapel Gallery and The Royal Academy of Arts, London; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne; The Leopold Museum, Vienna; and The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan.

Justine Kurland

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In the spirit of 19th-century landscape photographers, who produced idealized images of the American wilderness, Justine Kurland takes photographs during cross-country journeys with her young son, seeking out instances, places, and communities in which the enigmatic nature of the American dream manifests in unexpected, at times uncomfortable ways. Born in Warsaw, New York, Kurland received her BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York City, in 1996, and her MFA from Yale University in 1998. Her work has been exhibited extensively at museums and galleries in the U.S. and internationally.

Tracey Baran (1975-2008)

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“Tracey Baran (1975-2008) creates visual journals using color photography to record and refine her experiences into images that reference fundamental themes such as love, death, and regeneration. Rarely preconceiving her pictures, Baran works in an intuitive manner, casting her photographer’s eye on the world until something sticks. Thus a photograph can occur at any moment, in any place, in a practice that starts with instinct and results in the communication of very universal experiences.”
—Karen Irvine, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago