Austin Lee - Editions & Works on Paper New York Thursday, February 15, 2024 | Phillips
  • “I'm interested in rendered shapes and atmospherics spaces. Just different ways of seeing an image.”
    —Austin Lee

     

    Rendered Birds represents a merging of digital and traditional printmaking techniques. While Lee initially drew these birds in virtual reality and ‘photographed’ them in the three-dimensional space, Pace Prints assisted the artist in translating the digital image into an intaglio print through a photogravure process. The resulting print, published in celebration of Earth Day, sees Lee utilize his continued experimentation in combining digital technologies with traditional media for the benefit of environmentalism. “I love birds and computers and nature and people, and I don’t think these things have to be at odds,” Lee remarked. “I am hopeful that there are solutions to environmental challenges that can make a safer world for everyone.”

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Rendered Birds

2021
Photogravure in colors, on wove paper, with full margins.
I. 10 1/2 x 13 in. (26.7 x 33 cm)
S. 14 1/4 x 16 7/8 in. (36.2 x 42.9 cm)

Signed, dated and numbered 33/50 in pencil (there were also 20 artist's proofs), published by Pace Editions, Inc., New York, to benefit the Environmental Defense Fund, New York, framed.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$1,000 - 2,000 

Sold for $762

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 15 February 2024