Oct 07, 2010 - Sale 2224

Sale 2224 - Lot 139

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
DAWOUD BEY (1953 - )
Accra Shepp and Alva Rogers.

Polaroid print, 1992. 609x533 mm; 24x21 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, inscribed "All the best to the both of you. May you be each other's blessing," and numbered 1/1 in black ink, lower margin.

Born in Jamaica, NY, the artist earned his M.F.A. in photography from Yale University School of Art in 1993, and now lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Columbia College, Chicago.

Bey has had recent solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.