107. MARK
GROTHAN
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Untitled
(Green Butterfly)
2002
oil on canvas
122 x 86.3 cm
2002
oil on canvas
122 x 86.3 cm
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Untitled
(Face)
2007
Oil on cardboard on linen on canvas
152.4 x 129.5cm
2007
Oil on cardboard on linen on canvas
152.4 x 129.5cm
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Untitled
(large coloured butterfly white background 10 wings) 2004 Coloured pencil on paper 177 x 130 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In
1968 in Pasadena, California
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Studies:
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
Skowhegan, ME
Department of Art Practice, University of
California, Berkeley, CA, M.F.A.
Department of Art Practice, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, B.F.A.
Themes and
style:
In the
mid-1990s, Grotjahn began working on a stream of densely worked colored pencil
drawings, followed by oil paintings, which focused on perspective
investigations such as dual and multiple vanishing points.
Later Grotjahn
began working with colored pencils to develop "perspective drawings"
and then perspectival paintings. Grotjahn's mask sculptures extend the artist's
idiosyncratic investment in the process and ritual of painting into three
dimensions. Cast in bronze from spontaneous cardboard assemblages and often
painted with the fingers, most of them rest on pedestals, while a few are
wall-mounted, referring directly to painting
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings, drawings and
and sculpture
Exhibitions
See at:
Representative
Galleries:
Anton Kern
Saatchi
Gagosian
In
his own words:
“I wanted to be an artist because When I was 15 my art teacher showed me
the book Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Kandinsky, in which I found an
answer to what I was doing. It opened my eyes to the fact that the designs and
drawings I was making could be considered art. In a way, this is the moment
when a certain kind of my art education started. So from reading Kandinsky I
went to Paul Klee, then to Schnabel and Baselitz.”
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more Information: