Iovine and Young Center for High School Education Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby's
Iovine and Young Center for High School Education Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby's
Hilary Pecis
Record Collection
Auction Closed
February 28, 03:50 AM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hilary Pecis
b. 1979
Record Collection
Executed in 2024.
Signed and dated verso
Acrylic on linen
54 x 44 x 2 in. (137.16 cm x 111.76 x 5.08 cm)
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Courtesy of the Artist and David Kordansky Gallery
Hilary Pecis (b. 1979, Fullerton, California) makes paintings and drawings in which tableaus rich with interlocking fields of saturated color, geometric patterning, and bold linework provide views of sun-drenched domestic still lifes and landscape environments. Books crowding a coffee table, the remains of a dinner party, and terrains lush with Southern California succulents make frequent appearances in her work; these meticulously arranged interiors and vibrantly rendered exteriors amount to an overarching portrait of the self that identifies objects and locations as signifiers for human characteristics. Pecis combines distorted perspectives and surprising juxtapositions of hue, placing her work in dialogue with modernist art historical movements like Fauvism in which subjective and analytical tendencies are synthesized. At the same time, her interest in images sourced from her personal experience allows her to transform recognizable mise-en-scènes into vivid explorations that celebrate the quiet moments of everyday life.