ArtCrush Auction 2024 ASPEN ART MUSEUM
SUMMER 2024 EDITION
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curator Marcia Tucker back in the late 1970s. In an interview in 2019, cited by Owen Duy writing in 2022 for Art Review , the artist Katherine Bradford makes the bold suggestion that Nava “paints gures almost the way Cy Twombly would have, had he painted gures.” Discussing Nava’s determination to “deskill,” Duy himself writes, “He renders three-dimensional objects with a distorted sense of atness and messy linework.” But, of course, as with all those that went before him, the naivety is knowing, for as Nava himself explained in an interview with émergent magazine, “there’s just a lot more room in what people would call the ‘incorrect’ ways of painting.” Born in East Chicago, Nava lives in Brooklyn. In 2011, he graduated from Yale School of Art, New Haven, with an MFA in painting. His work is held in the collections of a signicant number of museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Naudline Pierre Work generously donated by the artist and James Cohan Gallery Naudline Pierre’s cast of characters inhabit a parallel world. A peaceful one painted in rich earth tones. Its inhabi- tants oat in a void or huddle together, their bodies entwined in acts of ten- derness. Flames whip around them, engulng them, but seemingly without danger. Many are winged, oering the potential for escape. The images are sensual, but also possessed of a certain innocence. And at their center is one particular female gure, who on occa- sion the artist has described as her alter ego. Having found her way into painting through religious art, Pierre has gone on to create her own mythology. In a short lm made in 2021 she declared,
Right Marina Rheingantz. Courtesy: the artist and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro; photograph: Denise Andrade
“I think imagination is so important to survival.” The swirling symbolism of her canvases recalls the work of the British poet and painter William Blake, and Pierre herself has cited the inuence of other European mas- ters: Goya, Caravaggio and El Greco. The title of her rst solo museum show, “What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared,” at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2021, conveys the exploration of spirituality that anchors her work. Cited in a 2021 article for W magazine, the curator of the exhibition, Hilde Nelson, explained what she sees to be common to the work of historical European religious paintings and those of Pierre: “At their core, [they] are about faith and the unseen and what lies beyond us—how we can nd connection in an uncertain world.” Born in Leominster, Pierre lives and works in Brooklyn. She was a 2019–20 artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and her work can be found in numerous museum collections, including the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. Marina Rheingantz Work generously donated by the artist, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Bortolami and White Cube Marina Rheingantz’s landscapes come from memories of real places. In the beginning, she drew upon the country- side of her childhood, around her family’s farm in Brazil, but her refer- ences have since expanded. Writing in the New York Times in 2018, Roberta Smith observes that the paintings of Rheingantz “recalibrate the work of Cy Twombly and Anselm Kiefer into large, semi-abstract landscapes full of ambiguous forms and details that are deeply dystopian in mood. They’re beautiful wastelands writ small, delicately dotted with suggestions of trash; ruined structures and abandoned encampments; occasional tiny ags or
Below Naudline Pierre. Courtesy: the artist and James Cohan Gallery; photograph: Rafael Martinez
The online auction opens for bidding on July 25 and closes August 3: christies. com/aspenartmuseum
The live auction takes place on August 2 at the ArtCrush gala. Visit the museum and view the ArtCrush Auction Exhibition from July 17–August 3. Phone and absentee bids accepted. For all enquiries, email bid@aspenart museum.org. Download the Christie’s app and register as a bidder today!
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