Lavaughan Jenkins
I’m Your Tomorrow
Lot closes
June 7, 03:25:30 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 12,000 USD
Current Bid
3,500 USD
3 Bids
Reserve met
Lot Details
Description
Lavaughan Jenkins
b. 1976
I’m Your Tomorrow
Executed in 2024.
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14 x 11 x 3 in. (35.6 × 27.9 × 7.6 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter, Los Angeles
Lavaughan Jenkins (b. 1976, Pensacola, FL; lives in Boston, MA) is a painter, despite applying his oils and acrylics with such thick impasto that his paintings teeter on sculptural. Jenkins’s depictions of Black women, talismanic figures, decorative patterns, and mysterious portals extend outward from his canvases to become what he terms “3D paintings.” In I’m Your Tomorrow, Jenkins features a vortex whose distinct color spectrum resonates with specific memories—in this case, that of lost lovers and past relationships. Standing firm at the base of the painting, in white and gray Nikes, are two of Jenkins’s recurring figures, “protectors” who are meant to guard the painting’s central subject. Jenkins’s work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), both in Boston. In 2019, Jenkins received the James and Audrey Foster Prize from ICA, Boston.