Norton Museum of Art 2023 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Norton Museum of Art 2023 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Study of Guardian Tabor
Lot Closed
February 6, 07:32 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Devon DeJardin
b. 1993
Study of Guardian Tabor
Executed in 2022.
Signed
Graphite on paper
36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm)
Framed: 41 1/2 x 38 x 1 1/2 in. (105.4 x 96.5 x 3.8 cm)
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Courtesy of the Artist and albertz benda, New York/Los Angeles
Devon DeJardin (b. 1993) is a self-taught, multimedia artist from Portland, Oregon currently working out of Los Angeles, Ca. In his adolescent years DeJardin suffered from severe depression and anxiety, finding refuge in painting. DeJardin uses art — and art history — to understand the world and his place in it. With a background studying spiritual traditions from around the world, and an appreciation for the emotional, muscular abstraction of Picasso, Nevelson, Duchamp, Krasner, DeJardin’s paintings, drawings, and sculpture reference the body, forces of nature, and the application of philosophy to lived experience. With a sense of geometry that is both architectural and organic, and a refined palette that highlights the life of the mind, DeJardin muses on strength, fragility, control, and surrender. DeJardin’s work, for now, focuses on guardians – on entities and forces that protect us, guide us, and challenge us to grow. But often, our real life ‘guardians’ come in forms we don’t recognize: challenges that force us to learn new skills, losses that teach us emotional resilience, crises that show us our inner strength.