Alec Egan
LOT 4
Black-eyed Susan, 2025
Oil on paper
18.75 x 14.87 inches (framed)
Courtesy of the artist and Charles Moffett, New York
Suggested retail value: $8,000
Starting bid: $6,000
About the Artwork
Alec Egan’s thickly impastoed paintings portray strikingly banal interior scenes that are premised on a fictitious memory. Egan's bodies of work include figurative landscapes as well as intricate, vibrantly rendered interior scenes that use tropes of nostalgia and the absence of humans to imbue depicted objects with a melancholic and profound spirit. His approach to beauty is expressed through conflicting and layered wallpapers, fabrics, flowers, and foodstuffs; the clash is surreal and psychological. With Black-eyed Susan, we are readied for a presence; a bold bloom paradoxically suggesting a poppy is foregrounded among a field of pink flowers; perhaps we wonder, Who is she? Are we in a known moment of nature, or a wallpapered room in the artist’s infinite imaginary home? We are invited to focus on the dark central eye of the work as we wonder. Egan’s recent solo exhibitions include Drawing Room at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT; Blue Setting, Charles Moffett, NY; Look Out, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; and Miro’s Corner, MAKI Gallery, Tokyo. His work has also been exhibited at Almine Rech, Paris; Dubuque Museum of Art, IA; California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica; and Torrance Art Museum, CA. His works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and ICA Miami.
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is available from May 18-June 5.
1) Text 'READY TO BID' or call 628-237-8195.
OR
2) Visit Headlands' Auction Exhibition to see the artwork and bid via pen & paper.