Sheree Hovsepian
Steep
Lot Closed
August 5, 06:23 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 24,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sheree Hovsepian
b.1974
Steep
Silver gelatin, photographs, velvet, glazed ceramic, walnut artist's frame
21½ by 17½ by 3½ in.
54.6 by 44.5 by 8.9 cm.
Executed in 2023.
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Kindly donated by the artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery
Sheree Hovsepian (American b. Iran) earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, a dual BFA/BA from the University of Toledo in 1999, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland in 1998.
Hovsepian was included in 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, with a whole room dedicated to her work. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions have been organized by Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Higher Pictures Gallery, New York, NY; Team Bungalow, Los Angeles, CA; and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL. Recent group exhibitions include Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; There’s There There, Hauser & Wirth, Southampton, NY; Arches and Ink, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Inertial Dynamics, Half Gallery, New York; Seductive Reduction, CHART Gallery, New York; Material Gestures, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; and Where Do We Stand?, The Drawing Center, New York.
Hovsepian is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bronx Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Hovsepian serves on the Art Advisory Committee of Baxter Street Camera Club of New York as well as sitting on various committees of culturally relevant institutions with an emphasis on arts education and development. She currently lives and works in New York City.