ArtCrush 2023: Art Auction to Benefit the Aspen Art Museum
ArtCrush 2023: Art Auction to Benefit the Aspen Art Museum
Rebecca Ward
untitled (burgundy, pink)
Lot Closed
August 5, 06:56 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Rebecca Ward
b. 1984
untitled (burgundy, pink)
Acrylic and dye on stitched canvas
24 by 32 in.
61 by 81.3 cm
Executed in 2023.
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As such, there is no buyer's premium in this auction - all sale proceeds will go directly to the Aspen Art Museum to support its programs. Certain amounts paid above the value of the property or services provided may qualify as a tax deductible donation to the museum. Sotheby’s does not offer tax advice. Please consult your tax advisor, and for any tax related inquiries please contact bid@aspenartmuseum.org at the Aspen Art Museum.
Kindly donated by the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Rebecca Ward (b. 1984, Waco, TX) continues to investigate painting’s multifaceted relationships with object, craft, and dimensionality primarily through deconstructed and sewn canvases. Emphasizing materiality and process, a distinct visual language and formal ambiguity permeates the artist’s works. Ward has expanded her vernacular to include curving and organic forms alongside the hard-edged. Although not direct depictions, she connects abstraction to both the corporeal and the mathematical, with diverse sources of inspiration. These elements coalesce into a spatial play of harmonious proportions and tones that suggest the mirroring of human and natural phenomena. She converges cut planes of painted and dyed canvas at machine-sewn seams that both physically combine and divide the compositions. Creating exuberant environments of grassy greens, silky violets, or variegated maroons, foreground and background are accentuated by lighter washes or raw canvas contrasting with saturated tones. These sections give way to an unraveling of the overall picture in the paintings where she methodically removes sections of horizontal threads. Revealing and obscuring the underlying stretcher bars, Ward emphasizes the multidimensional structure of painting beyond its surface and highlights the structural elements that make it possible.
Rebecca Ward earned a BA at the University of Texas, Austin, TX (2006) and an MFA at the School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY (2012). She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.