Lyle Ashton Harris

Untitled (Candles), 1998, rare cibachrome proof print

1998

A rare unsigned proof print from Muse X. this is the original Cibachrome print on heavy metallic photography paper. this is an original vintage color print c print. Lyle Ashton Harris (born 1965) is an American artist who has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, photo montage, installation art and performance art. Born in the Bronx, Harris was raised between New York City and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. He graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Known for his self-portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the 52nd Venice Biennale. His work has been acquired by major international museums, most recently by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His commissioned work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. In 2014 Harris joined the board of trustees at the American Academy in Rome and was named the 10th recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Born in the Bronx New York City, He currently lives and works in New York City and is an Associate Professor at New York University. Education Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, 1992 National Graduate Photography Seminar, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1991 Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, 1990 Bachelor of Arts (with Honors), Wesleyan University, 1988 Works in Public Collections Los Angeles County Museum of Art Miami Art Museum Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York Princeton University Art Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Studio Museum in Harlem The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Selected Solo Exhibitions 2010Untitled (Black Power), Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands Ghana, CRG Gallery, NY 2008Sketches from the Shore, The Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA 2004Lyle Ashton Harris, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France Blow Up, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) Traveled to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Bang! The Gun as Image, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 1998Distillation, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland Alchemy, in collaboration with Thomas Allen Harris, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue) 1994The Good Life, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY Face, Broadway Window, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2014Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York “The Progress of Love”, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX “The Romare Bearden Project”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2011 “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Kreyol Factory, Grande Hale de la Villete, Paris, France (catalogue) S&M: Shines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times, [Co-Curator], 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, NY 2007 Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalogue) (NOT) GAY ART NOW, Curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Male Desire Two, Mary Ryan Gallery, NY African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2002 Typical Men: Recent Photography of the Male Body by Men, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Goddess, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Welcome, Curated by Renato Bianchini, Citta Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy 1998 Diana.98, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland Millenovecento, Galerie Analix B Polla & C Cargnel, Paris, France Black Nudes: New Identities, Gay Games Amsterdam 1998, Amsterdam, Netherlands Portraits, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY The Paranoid Machine, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Published Photographs Stanley, Alessandra, “Berlusconi, The Return,” The New York Times Magazine, April 15, p. 40, (photographed Silvio Berlusconi) Hyland, John, “Hot Chicks, Cool Rooms,” The New York Times Magazine’s Fashions of the Times, Spring Issue, p.185 2000Portraits of Cuban Link, Fat Joe, Jermaine Dupri, Jill Scott...

SEASONS (1981) This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet) Title: Woman (with Chinese Fan). This one is hand signed and dated verso. Seasons explores the seasons of Man, Woman, Child, Civilization, Nature and Technology. First digital artwork purchased by the Metropolitan Museum. Date: 1980-1981 Medium: vintage color photocopy print. “I worked at The Metropolitan Museum in 1981, when they acquired [Lesley’s] SEASONS portfolio. We knew we wanted it, even though we didn’t have a category for it.” David Kiehl, Curator of Prints and Special Collections The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Lesley Schiff (born 1951) is an American fine artist. Schiff studied painting at the Art Institute Chicago before developing her signature practice using color laser printers to create images. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other major museums, corporate and private collections globally. Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work outlines a cycle of life: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics". She uses a color laser printer “like a paintbrush” to create her art. She has said about her work and her tool: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct—but no matter how hi-tech my tools become, I’m a painter, but instead of painting with oils, I paint with light. The Whitney Museum will show Lesley Schiff's pioneering SEASONS portfolio in its entirety. Many prominent collections acquired SEASONS as their first digital artwork. She participated in the Punk Art show in the 1970's. Her work kind of relates to Fluxus and Dada. Leslie Schiff moved from Chicago to New York in the early 1970s. Much of her art involves collage and the Xerox photocopy machine. Her images are rooted in her personal psyche and have an intuitive meaning that is not always easily understood. In exhibitions, Xerox sheets are combined and displayed decoratively on the wall. Schiff has also created books; and made video and sound tapes. She was included in the seminal New York/New Wave 1981 exhibition show at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, William S.Burroughs, David Byrne, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kenny Scharf, Steven Sprouse, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner. She did a “visual biography,” comprised of portraits of Bob Dylan—depicted at different ages, from his 20s to his 60s—illustrations of his lyrics, and images of iconic objects like his sunglasses and harmonica. Schiff collaborated with Matthew Carter...

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RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Illuminance' 2011 C–type print Sheet 103 x 103 cm (40 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.) Edition of 6; Ed. no. 3/6 framed Reminiscent of Japa...