Norton Museum of Art 2025 Gala Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Norton Museum of Art 2025 Gala Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Basil Kincaid
The Way Water Is
Lot closes
February 3, 09:24 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 USD
Starting Bid
18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Basil Kincaid
b. 1986
The Way Water Is
Executed in 2023.
Hand-woven cotton fiber, rayon embroidery floss on canvas
74 1/2 x 63 1/4 x 1/4 in. (189.2 x 160.6 x 0.6 cm)
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Courtesy of the Artist and Mindy Solomon Gallery
2024, Fabric of Life, curated by Catherine Loewe, Vortic Curated (Virtual)
2023, Impulse of an Era, Albertz Benda, New York
Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American artist who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collaging, photography, installation and performance. Implementing materials vested with emotional and memorial content, Kincaid allows these mediums to function as spiritual technology that forward various wisdoms born from Kincaid's greatest values: family, imagination, rest, and experience. Kincaid studied drawing and painting at Colorado College, graduating in 2010. Kincaid has exhibited works with Hauser & Wirth, Mindy Solomon, Kravets Wehby, Kavi Gupta, Carl Kostyal and others. In 2019, Kincaid debuted a first museum performance, “The Release,” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis MO. In 2020 Kincaid received the Regional Arts Commission Fellowship. In 2021, Kincaid became a United States Artist Fellow and joined the Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2022, Kincaid debuted new quilt works in both the Legacy Russell-curated show, “The New Bend” at Hauser & Wirth’s New York and Los Angeles locations, and the Ekow Eshun-curated exhibition, “New African Portraiture” at the Kunsthalle Krems in Austria. Kincaid also produced a ceremonial installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, wrapping a Manuel Neri figure in a quilt entitled “Take Me Home” just days a!er Neri’s passing. In 2023, Kincaid exhibited “Dancing the Wind Walk”, a semi-permanent fabric monument during Frieze LA, with support from the Art Production Fund. Kincaid currently has a solo exhibition at the Rubell Museum in Miami, FL now through October 2024.