Apr 07, 2016 - Sale 2409

Sale 2409 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
IROZEALB (IONA ROZEAL BROWN) (1966 - )
Untitled II (Male).

Color screenprint on wove paper, 2003. 883x692 mm; 34 3/4x27 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 17/35 in pencil, lower margin.

iROZEALb (Iona Rozeal Brown) is best known for her clever merging of the imagery of Japanese ukiyo-e prints and American hip-hop culture. She first became interested in Japanese visual culture after learning about ganguro, a phenomenon popular during the 1990s in which Japanese girls darkened their skin and dyed their hair blond as a challenge to ideals of beauty. Brown earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Yale University in 2002. Both a visual artist and DJ, who has lived in Tokyo and Yokohama, Brown currently lives and works in Washington, DC. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2010, and as part of Thirty Americans, the national touring exhibiton of the Rubell Family Collection.