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Nicholas & Sheila Pye
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2010

About the Item

Nicholas and Sheila Pye are a Canadian artist team who uses large-scale photography and short films to expose the pains and pleasures of long-term relationships. Now divorced, they continue to make work together on a periodic basis. “How very brave of them.” This is a comment heard frequently in galleries and film festivals where the photographs and films of artist couple Nicholas and Sheila Pye are presented. The artists take their married relationship - generally a taboo subject matter in contemporary art - as a point of departure for a metaphoric foray into power struggles, passion, and communication issues between two individuals. Yet their work retains a dramatic ambiguity about the nature of relationships, such as the seesawing of attraction and repulsion or the adopting of different gender roles for expediency or manipulation. An additional emotional complexity is layered onto the narrative by the identification of the characters as brother and sister. As a body of work, these films and photographs are disquieting and erotic, melancholic and wry. Following the stages of a love affair from sweet obsession and longing to antipathy and disillusion, their work addresses the psychological landscape of the viewer as much as the artists’ own relationship. By presenting sibling relationships, the Pyes dilute autobiography and bring a wider spectrum of mutual dependency to the fore. Within the spectrum of a passionate relationship, their work veers between colorful vibrant playful compositions to dark dens with smoldering fires or dirt and inhabited by jaded characters who are exhausted or enraged by the innate power struggles of intimacy. The Pyes have exhibited their work at museums such as The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Incheon Women’s Biennial, Incheon, Korea; Kunsthallen Brænderigården, Denmark; Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada; and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Their work has also been exhibited internationally at numerous galleries including Curator's Office, Washington, DC; Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto; Begoña Malone Gallery, Madrid; Art Mur, Montreal; Artcore / Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto; Alexia Goethe Gallery, London; Galerie Adler, Frankfurt; Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin; Nettie Horn Gallery, London; RARE Gallery, New York; Angell Gallery, Toronto; and Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago. This digital photograph is from an edition of 5 + 2 APs. It is rear-mounted with UV matte laminate to aluminum and has rear aluminum frame with cleat. It is also available in a smaller size: 24" x 24". Both editions are ed. of 5 + 2 APs. Both can be ordered unframed. The work is signed on a label adhered to the versos. If ordered unframed, the work comes with the label separately.

Creator:
Nicholas & Sheila Pye (1976, Canadian)
Creation Year:
2010
Dimensions:
Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
This work is also available in a smaller size: 24" x 24". Both editions are from an edition of 5 + 2 APs.Price: $3,000
Medium:
C Print,Digital Pigment,Photographic Paper
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
This archival digital C-print is rear mounted to aluminum with a framing attachment on verso. It is signed on a label on the verso.
Gallery Location:
Bethesda, MD
Reference Number:
Seller: CO_NSP041stDibs: LU2002523372

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