Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2025 Art Auction | Hosted by Sotheby's

Gary Simmons

Edge Jump

Estimate

255,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Gary Simmons

b. 1964

Edge Jump

Executed in 2023.

Oil paint on canvas

60 x 60 (152.4 × 152.4 cm)

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Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

For over three decades, Gary Simmons (b. 1964, New York, NY; lives in Los Angeles, CA) has created artworks that grapple with collective memory, uncovering aspects of cultural history that have been neglected, forgotten, or misrepresented, including recurring motifs that reflect traces of racism that remain hidden in plain sight. Edge Jump depicts one such motif, the 1930s cartoon character Bosko, skating “on thin ice,” with Simmons’s hand-smudged lines imbuing the scene with motion—but also precarity. In 2023, the MCA presented the artist’s first comprehensive career retrospective, Gary Simmons: Public Enemy. Simmons has been the subject of solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including presentations at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; and Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.