Tony Cokes
DFAI Rework.04
Lot closes
June 7, 03:10:00 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Starting Bid
8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Tony Cokes
b. 1956
DFAI Rework 0.4
Executed in 2023.
Lightbox with SEG fabric
Edition 1 of 3 + 2 artist's proofs
49 × 65 × 4 ¾ in. (124.5 × 15.2 × 12.1 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
Tony Cokes (b. 1956, Richmond, VA; lives in Providence, RI) is a conceptual artist who deftly appropriates and remixes images and texts from popular culture and social history. Using language to narrate or disrupt information, Cokes creates multimedia works that consider the dynamics of race, politics, and power. The title of this work, an acronym for the Dan Flavin Art Institute, reflects on the legacy of Flavin, a minimalist artist known for works incorporating fluorescent lights. Cokes’s work appeared at the MCA in Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power (2019–20) and Faith Ringgold: American People (2023–24). His pivotal video Black Celebration (1988) is in the MCA Collection. Solo exhibitions of Cokes’s work include presentations at the Haus der Kunst and Kunstverein München, Germany, and Dia Bridgehampton, NY. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2024 and the Rome Prize in 2022–23, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Studio Museum in Harlem, among others.