ArtCrush 2022: Art Auction to Benefit the Aspen Art Museum
ArtCrush 2022: Art Auction to Benefit the Aspen Art Museum
Precious Okoyomon
everything is hard against the tongue; everything is dissolving: two works
Lot Closed
August 6, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
32,000 - 44,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Precious Okoyomon
b. 1993
everything is hard against the tongue; everything is dissolving: two works
Executed in 2020.
watercolor and dirt on paper
each: 52 by 43 in. (132 by 109.2 cm.)
framed (each): 55 by 48 in. (140 by 121.9 cm.)
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Kindly donated by the Collection of J Patrick Collins
Precious Okoyomon's current Aspen Art Museum rooftop commission Every Earthly Morning the Sky’s Light touches Ur Life is Unprecedented in its Beauty is up until Sep 21, 2022.
Precious Okoyomon (b. 1993) is a Nigerian-American poet and artist. Their work considers the natural world, histories of migration and racialization, and the pure pleasures of everyday life. They have had institutional solo exhibitions at the LUMA Westbau in Zurich (2018), the Museum Für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2020), Performance Space New York (2021), and the Aspen Art Museum(2021). They were included in the 59th Venice Biennale, the 58th Belgrade Biennial as well as group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the LUMA Arles, France. Major performances have been commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, London (2019) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2019). Their second book of poetry But Did U Die? will be co-published by the Serpentine Galleries and Wonder Press in 2022. Okoyomon was a 2020 artist-in-residence at the LUMA Arles, and they are the 2021 recipient of the Frieze Art Fair Artist Award, as well as the 2022 Chanel Next Art Prize.