Paul Sietsema
Action painting (1972)
Lot closes
June 7, 03:42:00 AM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Starting Bid
20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Paul Sietsema
b. 1968
Action painting (1972)
Executed in 2017.
Enamel and coin on board in artists frame
18 5/8 x 17 1/4 in. (47.3 x 43.8 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery
Paul Sietsema (b. 1968, Los Angeles, CA; lives in Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the production and consumption of culturally significant items such as newspapers, rotary telephones, and here, currency and coins, to mediate our societal understanding of objects and their contexts. For Action painting (1972) he made a freehand circle by pushing a coin on wet enamel. Through both gesture and the work’s title, Sietsema references abstract expressionism and painting’s prominence in the commercial market. The MCA presented a solo exhibition of Sietsema’s work in 2013, and other solo exhibitions have been presented by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Among Sietsema’s numerous awards are the Wexner Center Residency Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award for Visual Arts.