Dreyfoos School of the Arts Charity Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Dreyfoos School of the Arts Charity Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
David Haxton
Sunlight on Orange, Red and White Canvases
Lot Closed
February 28, 08:15 PM GMT
Estimate
4,500 - 5,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
David Haxton
b. 1943
Sunlight on Orange, Red and White Canvases
Executed in 2022.
Signed and dated
Archival pigment print
15 3/4 x 21 in.
Framed: 22 x 27 x 1 3/4 in.
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Donated by the Artist.
David Haxton (b. 1943, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an artist who works primarily in Photography and Film. His films from the 1970’s and early 1980’s were made mostly in negative, with a static camera position, and in one take. In these films the space filmed is revealed gradually by a performer, while the intrinsic flatness of the illuminated screen is maintained. In 1976 Haxton bought an 8x10 camera and started photographing the leftover sets from his films. The photographs are like the films, in that they take place in the studio. Haxton states that “The photographed set started in darkness and everything in the photograph was put there including light”. In the Art of Photography, he states that, “the photographed set contains the residue of human activity, not unlike the drips in a Pollack painting”. David Haxton says that in general his photographs owe more to Man Ray than Cartier Bresson. He has a BA degree in Art from the University of South Florida (1961-1965). He also has an MFA degree in painting from the University of Michigan (1965-67).