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Lee Wells
Gray Scale Study for Pure Painting 3

2016

About the Item

Gray Scale Study for Pure Painting 3, 2016 Acrylic on museum board mounted to board Artwork size - 8 x 6.5 inches Framed Size - 16 x 20 inches signed and dated on recto Lee Wells is a conceptual artist, curator, writer and technology consultant living and working in New York since 2000.  He has presented his work internationally, including the 51st Venice Biennale, The Guggenheim Museum, NCCA Moscow, PS1/MoMA, and has lectured on art and new media at Princeton University, SVA, NYU among others. Wells was a co-founder of the critically acclaimed Perpetual Art Machine video art archive and curator at large for Scope Art Fairs prior to opening art project spaces in New York’s Lower East Side and Athens Greece through his performance art company IFAC, inc, which he originally founded in 1996.
  • Creator:
    Lee Wells (August 25, 1971, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2016
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU326971243
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