Harold Mendez
Mundos
Lot closes
June 7, 03:31:30 AM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 USD
Starting Bid
6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Harold Mendez
b. 1977
Mundos
Executed in 2023.
Stoneware and ashes
9 x 14 x 13 in. (22.9 x 35.6 x 33 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and PATRON Gallery, Chicago
Harold Mendez’s (b. 1977, Chicago, IL; lives in Los Angeles, CA multidisciplinary practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture, sound, and performance. An artist of Mexican Colombian descent, he focuses on histories and archives connected to colonialism and migration, spirituality, and commemoration. This work, whose title is Spanish for “worlds,” draws on the pre-Columbian ritual of wrapping symbolic materials, such as petals and seeds, in burlap and clay and firing them until the interior objects turn to ash. Mendez was the subject of a UBS 12 × 12: New Artists, New Works exhibition at the MCA in 2008. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. In February 2025, the MCA acquired a work by Mendez for the museum’s collection.