Theaster Gates

Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
Acquired by the present owner from the above

St. Louis, David Bruno Gallery, Theaster Gates: Dry Bones and Other Parables from the North, May - June 2010, pp. 25, 27, 29-30 and 35, illustrated in color
New York, S|2 Gallery, I Like it Like This, April - June 2015, pp. 104-105, illustrated in color

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is general wear to the wood, some of the blue paint has chipped in spots and the wood is frayed throughout, which is inherent to artist's choice of found medium.
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"The shoeshine stand is going to mean ‘X,’ and for some people that X might be 'This is a horrible history that I do not want to think out about, and I don’t want to have that shine on my shoes.” For other people, it might be nostalgia, like, “Oh, I remember when grandfather used to shine his shoes before he went to church.' Then some people will say, 'Oh, that’s a really interesting thing, who did that?' It’s a kind of conjuring that draws on the symbolic meanings of that object, and having these multiple reads on that thing is exciting." Theaster Gates