Stephanie Syjuco
LOT 16
Blackout (Krylon ColorMaster Gloss Black on White Oriental Lilies Sprayed Gloss White), 2019
Archival pigment print on Hannemuhl Baryta
31 x 25 x 2 inches (Framed)
Edition 1 of 5
Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery and RYAN LEE Gallery
Suggested retail value: $12,000
Starting bid: $7,500
About the Artwork
Stephanie Syjuco (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘01) works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Blackout is one in a series of three works called Hard Light, referring to a Photoshop filter commonly used to amplify lighting conditions on a digital image, creating an artificial glare and intensity. In this series, Syjuco uses Krylon aerosol spray paints to modify white Oriental lilies and white tulips—species of plants indigenous to countries throughout Asia that were subsequently cultivated through colonial trade—as a way to both negate and highlight persistent cultural metaphors about difference. Syjuco's images investigate how we codify otherness, and how color bears a literal and proverbial weight upon our collective consciousness.
Syjuco's work is in numerous collections, including SFMOMA; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., among others. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, and a Tiffany Foundation Award, and is featured in the PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century.
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is available from May 18-June 5.
1) Text 'READY TO BID' or call 628-237-8195.
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