Senga Nengudi
In My Backyard, April 2020 (Performance Photograph)
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:33:30 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 22,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Senga Nengudi
b. 1943
In My Backyard, April 2020 (Performance Photography)
Executed in 2020.
Digital inkjet print
Edition 3 of 5
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
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Courtesy of Sprüth Magers and Thomas Erben Gallery
Senga Nengudi (b. 1943, Chicago, IL; lives in Colorado Springs, CO) works primarily in sculpture and object-oriented performance, one instance of which is captured in this photograph of her performance In My Backyard. Drawing on influences from Noh theater to Yoruba mythology to free jazz, Nengudi animates everyday materials into meditations on sociopolitical realities related to gender and race. Collaboration has been central to Nengudi’s oeuvre since her earliest performances with artists David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Ulysses Jenkins in the 1970s. Nengudi’s work is held in the MCA Collection and has appeared in the MCA exhibitions Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago (2020), West by Midwest (2018–19), We Are Here (2017–18), and Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing, Meditations on Black Aesthetics (2003–04). Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented by Dia Beacon, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; and Museu de Arte de São Paulo.