80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
James Siena
Nineteen Combs
Lot Closed
February 8, 09:06 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
James Siena
b. 1957 Oceanside, CA
Nineteen Combs
Executed in 2007.
Ink on paper
60 x 40 in.
Framed: 63 ¼ x 43 ¼ x 2 in. (160.7 x 109.9 x 5 cm)
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Courtesy of Pace Gallery
James Siena's complex, rule-based linear abstractions have situated him firmly within the trajectory of modern American art. His artwork is driven by self-imposed predetermined sets of rules, or “visual algorithms,” which find their end-result in intensely concentrated, vibrantly-colored, freehand geometric patterns. Siena works across a diverse range of media, including lithography, etching, woodcut, engraving, drawing, and painting.
Siena’s work is held in prestigious public and private collections across the U.S., including the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, among others.