McArthur Binion
DNA Etching 1
Lot Closed
September 29, 02:14 PM GMT
Estimate
3,800 - 4,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
McArthur Binion
b. 1946
DNA Etching 1
Signed recto.
Edition TPF from an edition of 35.
color aquatint and sugarlift aquatint, Somerset White Paper
40 1/2 by 27 1/2 in.
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Courtesy of the artist, GRAY and Paulson Fontaine Press.
Image copyright Modern Ancient Brown.
McArthur Binion creates highly personal and labor-intensive works that assert his unique position between minimalism, identity politics, and abstraction. Binion employs elemental materials and reproductions of personal photos and documents to form gridded compositions that, while abstract, remain a form of portrait. His works refuse easy categorization, continuously shifting between a critique and an acceptance of the minimalist aesthetic, ultimately rooting the works in an individual dedication to the process of painting, while also staking a firm position within the history of Black Abstraction.
Binion’s work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum Harlem, New York; the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among many others. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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