Catherine Opie
Untitled #6 (Norway Mountain)
Lot Closed
September 23, 06:04 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Catherine Opie
b. 1961
Untitled #6 (Norway Mountain)
Executed in 2024.
Not signed recto, verso not visible
Pigment print
77 by 58 in. (195.6 x 147.3 cm.)
Framed: 78 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 2 in (199.3 x 151.13 x 5.08 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Edition 4 of 5, 2 AP
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Best known for her intimate portraiture that often celebrates her queer community, Los Angeles–based artist Catherine Opie (US, b. 1961) has also explored subjects that range from LA freeways, strip malls, and Pacific Ocean surfers to winter vistas framing ice fishing houses on Minnesota lakes. While many of her series are based on Los Angeles, she often finds her subjects through her travels. In this series, she journeyed to Norway to photograph mountains, aiming to capture the quality of winter light that imparts a deep blue to the landscape. The images, the artist has noted, are a meditation on “how the history of blue is used in art … about blue as a mourning as the planet changes so rapidly.”
Opie has had solo exhibitions at numerous institutions internationally, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Her work is held in the collections of museums including the Hammer, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; and the Walker Art Center.