Kevin Beasley
Residue VII
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:05:30 AM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 45,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Kevin Beasley
b. 1985
Residue VII
Executed in 2023.
Raw Virginia cotton, polyurethane resin
21 x 15 x 2 in. (53.3 x 38.1 x 5 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York
Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, VA; lives in Queens, NY) often creates artworks from found materials, including T-shirts, housedresses, and, as with this work, raw cotton harvested from his family’s property in Virginia. Beasley alters, casts, and molds these diverse materials to form sculptures that interweave his own memories and experiences with broader cultural histories. Recent solo exhibitions of Beasley’s work have been organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Studio Museum in Harlem. For Prospect.5 (2021), Beasley realized a site-specific project in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Beasley’s work is also featured in the MCA Collection.