Matt Saunders
The Distances (K. Pensive)
Lot closes
June 7, 03:41:00 AM GMT
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
Starting Bid
18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Matt Saunders
b. 1975
The Distances (K. Pensive)
Executed in 2021.
Oil on unique chromogenic development print
71 1/2 x 50 in. (181.6 x 127 cm)
Framed: 76 5/8 x 55 2 1/2 in. (194.6 x 139.7 x 6.4 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery
Matt Saunders (b. 1975, Tacoma, WA; lives in Cambridge, MA, and Berlin, Germany) is a transdisciplinary artist who appropriates imagery and references from film, history, and other sources to push the limits of his chosen media. Saunders’s series Distances depicts subjects of his previous paintings, reimagined through inventive techniques: Saunders first exposes photosensitive paper to light filtered through painted chiffon, then layers paint onto the resulting photograph. Solo exhibitions include presentations at Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom; Renaissance Society at University of Chicago; and St. Louis Art Museum. Saunders’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at École des beaux-arts de Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.