Maryam Yousif
LOT 22
Habibti in Rosette Crown Dress, 2025
Glazed stoneware
17 x 13 x 7 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents
Suggested retail value: $6,000
Starting bid: $3,500
About the Artwork
Maryam Yousif creates ceramic sculptures and installations that forge a personal dialogue between the culture of her birthplace in Iraq and the rich legacy of Bay Area Funk ceramics. Her work is grounded in Mesopotamian mythologies, histories, and objects alongside the visual vocabularies of mid-century Iraqi Modernism and contemporary popular culture. Yousif’s Habibti in Rosette Crown Dress is the latest iteration in the artist’s ongoing “Habibti” series, a feminine term of endearment in Arabic meaning “my love.” Through this series, Yousif modernizes ancient Sumerian votive figurines, likenesses commissioned by laypeople to occupy space in sacred temples. This Habibti emblazons the figure’s dress with a wreath of small rosettes, paying homage to an Assyrian antiquity found in Yousif’s research. Yousif has had solo and two-person exhibitions at ICA San Francisco; The Pit, Los Angeles / Palm Springs; David B. Smith, Denver; and Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, among others. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, among others. She received a 2024 Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and was a finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA Art Award and the Museum of Arts and Design’s Burke Prize. Yousif's work is in the collections of the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY.
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.
