Nayland Blake

Lot #12
Made with Pride by a Queen, 1989
Screenprint on stretched canvas
8 x 10 inches 
Edition 36/50
Courtesy of Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

About the Artwork

Since the late 1980s, Nayland Blake has constructed an influential body of work exploring play, eroticism, and the subjective experiences of desire, power, and loss. Inspired by feminist theory and queer subcultures, Blake addresses the contradictions of representation in sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, particularly in relation to their own identity as a nonbinary multiracial artist. Their work has been shown extensively, and was included in the landmark exhibition Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1994. Nayland Blake: No Wrong Holes, a full-scale retrospective organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, opened in 2019 before traveling to the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Their work is in the collections of SFMOMA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Des Moines Art Center, IA, among others.

Retail Value: $2,500