John Ahearn
Liz
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:01:00 AM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
John Ahearn
b. 1951
Liz
Executed in 1982.
Painted plaster cast
24 x 15 x 7 1/2 in. (61 x 38.1 x 19.1 cm)
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Courtesy of the Oliver-Hoffman Foundation and Rhona Hoffman Gallery
John Ahearn (b. 1951, Binghamton, NY; lives in New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist recognized for making life-cast portraits of people in his South Bronx neighborhood. Part of the collective Colab (Collaborative Projects), a group of artists who in the late 1970s dedicated themselves to artist-driven activism and alternatives to New York’s commercial art world, Ahearn has long engaged in making public and street art. Ahearn’s work has been exhibited at the MCA and numerous other institutions, including Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ. His work is in the MCA Collection, as well as in the collections of Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Australian National Gallery, Canberra; and the Art Institute of Chicago. He has also received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.