Catherine Wagner
LOT 20
The Exiles, 2024
Archival pigment print
20 x 17.5 inches (unframed)
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
Suggested retail value: $12,000
Starting bid: $6,500
About the Artwork
Catherine Wagner's ambitious photographic practice spans more than four decades, observing architectural and archival spaces as metaphors for how we construct our cultural identities. The Exiles is part of the artist’s latest body of work, Moving Pictures, which explores cinema as both a mirror of society and an active force in shaping it. The Exiles is a 1961 film by Kent MacKenzie that follows a day in the life of a group of 20-something Native Americans who, having left reservation life in the 1950s, settled in Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill neighborhood. The film captures their search for identity and belonging in an urban landscape shaped by dislocation and transition. By invoking this cinematic history, Wagner’s work reframes archival fragments as living documents, reminding us that the struggles and aspirations of the past continue to shape today's narratives. Wagner’s work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Tate Modern, London; Bibliothèque National de Paris; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; SFMOMA; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, among others. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Artadia Award, Dorothea Lange Award, and the Rome Prize. Wagner recently received a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to be an artist in residence at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco.
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is available from May 18-June 5.
1) Text 'READY TO BID' or call 628-237-8195.
OR
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