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Shane Townley

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Shane Townley (b. 1972) is an artist based in New York City. His work primarily focuses on the landscape, although he does produce figurative and abstract paintings as well. His work is part of many private and corporate collections worldwide.

Kerry Hallam

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Kerry Hallam is an Impressionist artist, originally from Northern England. Hallam was the recipient of a six-year scholarship to London University’s Central College of Art. After a formal art education under British master painters, he completed his military service in the prestigious Gurkha brigade. In the early 1970’s, Kerry moved to the United States, completely dedicating himself to painting. He established his first studio in Boston, and in 1981, opened a studio and gallery on Nantucket Island.

Mark Kostabi

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Artist and Composer Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles in 1960 to Estonian immigrants. Raised in Whittier, California, he studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton. Kostabi moved to New York in 1982, and by 1984, emerged as a leading figure in the East Village art scene where he cultivated a provocative media persona by publishing self-interviews reflecting on the commodification of contemporary art. By 1987, his work was widely exhibited in New York galleries as well as prominently throughout the United States, Japan, Germany and Australia. Beginning in the early 1990s Kostabi’s work has been widely exhibited throughout Italy. Kostabi established a second home in Rome in 1996. Dividing his time between Rome and New York enabled him to dramatically enhance his presence in the Italian art scene. Kostabi is most known for his paintings of faceless figures which often comment on contemporary political, social and psychological issues, and which have visual stylistic roots in the work of Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Léger.

Kostabi’s work is in over 50 permanent museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, and the Groninger Museum in Holland.

Marc Yankus | “(Calmer, Quieter) Imagined New York,” The New York Times

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From Betsy Horan’s article and slide show of photography by Marc Yankus for The New York Times:

Part tonic and part “Twilight Zone,” the photographer Marc Yankus’s series “The Secret Lives of Buildings” conjures an alternate reality — a quieter, more ethereal New York City than the one that really exists. “It’s like taking a walk through a dreamlike, peaceful environment,” he says. With an exacting eye, Yankus captures the architectural detail of both city landmarks and anonymous facades — yet alters each in some way, removing people, skewing the angles of buildings or distorting light and color. This sleight of hand allows the buildings to come to life and take on a starring personality — one that usually is ignored in the hubbub of daily life. Here, “Barber Shop,” 2015. “On Seventh Avenue through the upper part of the West Village, I noticed one day that all the buildings sit on different angles,” Yankus explains.

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Marc Yankus | “In Photos,” Travel + Leisure

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From Erica Owen’s article discussing Marc Yankus’ exhibition “The Secret Lives of Buildings” for Travel + Leisure magazine:

There’s much more to cities than the people that occupy them. The buildings that pop up around certain populaces are just as unique as the faces that pass by each day. New York City is one of those incredibly rare places where you’ll find decades—centuries, even—of history hidden within the nooks and crannies of building facades.

Marc Yankus, a photographer of more than 30 years whose illustrations and collage work has been featured in the New York Times and past issues of Travel + Leisure, has debuted a series of photographs called “The Secret Lives of Buildings.” Yankus helps us all get to know some of the most famous (Flatiron Building) and forgotten (residential brownstones) structures in one of the world’s biggest metropolitan areas.

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Bobby masturbating, New York City [Bobby at home]

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1980

Signed, titled, and dated, verso

Vintage chromogenic print, hand-printed by the artist

20 x 16 inches

Sold.

Literature:
Jack Ritchey, et. al, Nan Goldin: The Beautiful Smile (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2007), p. 56, full-page color illus.
The Saatchi Gallery, I Am a Camera (London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2001), p. 51, color illus.
F. C. Gundlach, et. al, Emotions & Relations: Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Hamburg, Germany: Taschen, 1998), p. 51, full-page color illus.
Nan Goldin, I’ll Be Your Mirror (New York City: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996), p. 125, full-page color illus.
M. Heiferman, M. Holborn, and S. Fletcher, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (New York City: Aperture Foundation, Inc., 1986), p. 68, full-page color illus.

Wild Coast Bull

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2016

Signed and numbered, verso

Archival pigment print

53.3 x 80 inches
(Edition of 3)
$6,500

40 x 60 inches
(Edition of 5)
$5,000

26.7 x 40 inches
(Edition of 10)
$3,500

Please note that prices increase as editions sell.

Marc Yankus | “The Secret Lives of Buildings,” L’Oeil de la Photographie

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From L’Oeil de la Photographie:

Marc Yankus’s dreamlike portraits of New York City buildings straddle a fine line between documentary and fiction. In “The Secret Lives of Buildings” he captures the city’s architecture in an uncanny moment of stillness, free from the frenzy of people and cars. The sense of quietude lends elegance to the structures, both majestic and humble. Yankus inspires viewers to see historical buildings with a fresh perspective, offering an idealized and even utopian version of the past, while other buildings are viewed through a lens of potential. In separate scenes, the decay of crumbling concrete, chipped- away paint, and remnants of deconstruction paradoxically inspire a sense of agreeable nostalgia. On view through November 26 at ClampArt, in New York.

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Springbok VI

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2016

Signed and numbered, verso

Archival pigment print

53.3 x 80 inches
(Edition of 3)
$6,500

40 x 60 inches
(Edition of 5)
$5,000

26.7 x 40 inches
(Edition of 10)
$3,500

Please note that prices increase as editions sell.

Indian Ocean

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2016

Signed and numbered, verso

Archival pigment print

53.3 x 80 inches
(Edition of 3)
$7,500

40 x 60 inches
(Edition of 5)
$5,000

26.7 x 40 inches
(Edition of 10)
$3,500

Please note that prices increase as editions sell.

Armand Agresti | “The New York Subway in Art,” Artsy

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From Rachel Lebowitz’s article “The New York Subway in More Than 50 Years of Art” for Artsy:

New York’s subway system first opened over a century ago, in 1904, and is now inseparable from the city in the public consciousness. Those who experience it—from locals commuting to work to out-of-towners making the pilgrimage to Times Square—are likely to encounter numerous characters along their routes. It’s a stage for endless human drama, but it’s also a character unto itself, with plenty of kinks and quirks. Throughout its history, the subway has inspired a wide range of artists, who have paid tribute to it in photographs that record couples wrapped around each other during the early hours of the subway’s nocturnal run, or paintings that evoke the profound alienation of urban life as symbolized by this transient, subterranean realm.

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