Fred Wilson - New Now Day Sale New York Monday, February 29, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Metro Pictures, New York
    Collection of Blake Byrne, Los Angeles

  • Artist Biography

    Fred Wilson

    American • 1954

    For over three decades, conceptual artist Fred Wilson has drawn our attention to objects and cultural symbols as he brilliantly deconstructs social and historical narratives regarding art, culture and race. Wilson is perhaps best known for his 1992 landmark exhibition Mining the Museum, in which he created provocative tableaux by selecting and arranging objects from the collection of the Maryland Historical Society to confront politics of erasure and exclusion. In tandem with his project of creating site-specific installations as a form of institutional critique, Wilson also uses pre-existing objects as a springboard for new work to explore the role of creating and shaping meaning.

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Shatter

2003
5 Murano glass candlesticks, water, food coloring
overall 17 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in. (44.1 x 60 x 60 cm)
This work is from an edition of 10.

Estimate
$35,000 - 45,000 

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New Now Day Sale

New York Auction 29 February 2016 11am