Dec 01, 2022 - Sale 2623

Sale 2623 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,800 - $ 3,200
SCHEREZADE GARCIA (B. 1966, DOMINICAN/AMERICAN)
Untitled, (from Memories Afloat - Granada Series).

Acrylic, charcoal, and ink on paper, 2016. Signed, Scherezade, lower right. Inscribed, K29272, on verso. 572x762 mm; 22 1/2x30 inches.

Provenance: The artist; Private collection.

Scherezade García earned an AAS from Altos de Chavón School of Art and Design, a BFA from Parsons School of Design, and an MFA from CUNY. She is the 2015 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Painters and Sculptors Grant, and the Colene Brown Art Prize in 2020. Her works are in the permanent collections of several museums such as The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Museum of the Americas, The Housatonic Museum of Art, El Museo de Arte Moderno Santo Domingo, and El Museo del Barrio.
García now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Austin, TX. She is currently Vice President for External Relations at the College Arts Association. An edited monograph on her work, Scherezade Garcia: From This Side of the Atlantic, was published in 2020 by the Art Museum of the Americas.