Edie Fake
Complex
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:16:30 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 17,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edie Fake
b. 1980
Complex
Executed in 2016.
Gouache and ink on panel
24 x 38 x 1 in. (60.9 × 96.5 × 2.5 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Western Exhibitions, Chicago
Edie Fake (b. 1980, Evanston, IL; lives in Twentynine Palms, CA) is an artist, author, and transgender activist whose oeuvre includes drawings, paintings, installations, comics, and zines. Characterized by vibrant color and intricate linework, Fake’s artwork combines architectural and ornamental fragments to envision what he has described as “a fantasy and ecstasy of what queer space is and can be.” A large-scale mural by Fake is currently on view in the MCA’s Atrium. His work was also featured at the MCA in Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now (2021) and will be included in the forthcoming MCA exhibition City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago (2025–26). Fake has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; and the Drawing Center, New York.