Virginia Jaramillo
Maya
Lot closes
June 7, 03:24:30 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 USD
Starting Bid
10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Virginia Jaramillo
b. 1939
Maya
Executed in 2022.
Screenprint with water-based inks on Coventry Rag 335 gsm paper
Edition 3 of 20 + 5 artist's proofs and 3 printer's proofs
42 1/2 x 32 3/4 in. (108 x 83.2 cm)
Framed: 44 3/4 x 35 in. (113.7 x 88.9 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist, Hales Gallery, and Pace Gallery
For decades, Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939, El Paso, TX; lives in Hampton Bays, NY) has cultivated a nuanced and precise abstract visual language across painting and works on paper. Taking shape in New York and Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s—amid mass political movements and heated debates in the art world around representation and the relevance of painting—Jaramillo’s work has long engaged with the formal and social potential of abstraction. Maya evokes her interest in ancient cultures as imagined through her unique visual language, providing alternate ways of understanding our world. In 2024, the MCA presented Jaramillo’s major retrospective exhibition, and she has participated in exhibitions globally, including at the Tate Modern, London; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Brooklyn Museum; the Broad, Los Angeles; de Young Museum, San Francisco; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.