Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Catalogue Essay
Sheree Hovsepian
Born 1974, Isfahan, Iran
1999 BFA/BA University of Toledo, Ohio 2002 School of the Institute of Chicago
Selected exhibitions: Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago (2018); The Drawing Center, New York (2017); Brooklyn Academy of Music (2016); Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2013); Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago (2011, 2015, 2018) Selected honors: Residency, Drawing Center, New York (2016); Artist in Residence, The Banff Centre, Canada (2015); Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2014) Selected public collections: Art Institute of Chicago; The Bronx Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Spertus Museum, Chicago; The Studio Museum in Harlem
Made with silver gelatin photographs and nylon, Swell is a multimedia work by Sheree Hovsepian. Combining photographs of anatomical fragments with stretched nylon fabric, she creates textured fields that suggest arching landscape-like forms with a literal and figurative feminist overlay. Discussing her process, Hovsepian explains: “I feel an urge to work with my hands in an additive process as opposed to the way I see straight photography. I approach materials from a kind of naïve perspective that I experience as very freeing and in contrast to photography, which is more about precision and control.”
signed, titled and dated on the reverse gelatin silver prints collage and nylon, in artist's frame 25 x 21 1/8 x 4 in. (63.5 x 53.7 x 10.2 cm.) Executed in 2018.
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NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today
New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019