Norton Museum of Art 2025 Gala Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Norton Museum of Art 2025 Gala Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
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Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
b. 1994
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Executed in 2024.
Signed and dated in ink (verso)
Acrylic, oil pastel, and beads on paper
23 3/8 x 16 1/2 in. (59.4 x 41.9 cm)
Framed: 25 7/8 x 19 in. (65.7 x 48.2 cm)
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Courtesy of the Artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.
York, UK, York Art Gallery, Monet, The Water-Lily Pond, National Treasures Project, May 10 – September 8, 2024.
Throughout paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and site - specific mural and sound installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan (b. 1994; London, UK) endeavors to build spaces of queer community, abundance, and joy. Yearwood - Dan's singular visual language draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity, healing rituals, and carnival culture. Moving freely between media, Yearwood - Dan embeds botanical motifs and diaristic meditations within brushy abstract forms and heavy drips of pa int. From the monumental scale of her paintings to the more intimate scale of her ceramics and works on paper, Yearwood - Dan's practice frequently reflects an inviting domesticity. Resisting any singular definition of identity, the artist explores the possibilities of creating spaces — physical, pastoral, metaphorical — that allow for unlimited and unbounded ways of being.