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Mark KostabiThe Sphere of Reason1999
1999
$9,150
£7,026.81
€8,052.63
CA$12,880.94
A$14,429.50
CHF 7,505.13
MX$176,010.11
NOK 95,550.32
SEK 90,097.14
DKK 60,102.65
About the Item
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, l.l.
This painting is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
About the artist:
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.
- Creator:Mark Kostabi (1960, American)
- Creation Year:1999
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU93232980531
Mark Kostabi
Mark Kostabi became a leading figure in New York City's East Village art scene during the mid-1980s, along with other luminaries such as Keith Haring.
Kostabi's work is in the permanent collections of some of the world's most prominent institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., among many others.
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