Apr 22, 2021 - Sale 2565

Sale 2565 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
AARON FOWLER (1988 - )
Untitled (Storefront Landscape).

Oil on masonite panel, 2009. 406x610 mm; 16x24 inches. Signed and dated in in ink, upper right verso.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection (2009).

This painting displays the early interest of assemblage artist Aaron Fowler, best known for his large scale works that combine found objects, painting, and video, in urban environments. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Fowler now works in Harlem, New York City, Los Angeles, California, and St. Louis. Fowler received his BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2011, and MFA from Yale University in 2014. He had a solo exhibtion Aaron Fowler: Into Existence! at the Seattle Art Museum in 2019-20 and the Columbus College of Art and Design, and has exhibited at the New Museum, New York, the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is a recipient of the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize (2019), the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2015) and was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014).