Contemporary Art

Leo Villareal

Hexad

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December 18, 05:45 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Leo Villareal

b. 1967

Hexad

signed, titled, dated 2002 and numbered 1/3 on the reverse

LEDs, custom software, electrical hardware and Plexiglas

60 by 60 by 12 in. (152.4 by 152.4 by 30.5 cm.)

Executed in 2002, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3, plus 1 artist's proof.

Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002

San Jose Museum of Art, Leo Villareal, August 2010 - January 2011
New York, Gering Lopez Gallery, Leo Villareal: Volume, May - August 2011

“Light has a very powerful effect. It’s something that is deeply, deeply ingrained in us. I think my pieces are operating on a level that looking at a fire would. It’s harnessing that same whatever’s happening with the fire and the way that it’s pleasant to be near that. It has an ambient quality. There’s something happening that is hard to describe. Somehow it causes a response in viewers that brings out all these feelings that we have about things that we see in nature: our response to a sunset, or to the surface of water, or all these things that surround us all the time. What I’m getting at is capturing these essences, breaking things down, but then recreating them again through these other means.”

- Leo Villareal, quoted in “An Interview with Artist Leo Villareal,” Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, May 14, 2020, online