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THBThornton Willis: Untitled from the Cityscape series
About Seller
77 Bleecker Street, C2-18
New York, NY 10012
United States
CITYarts, Inc. is a nonprofit public arts and education organization recreated in 1989 by Executive and Creative Director Tsipi Ben-Haim after its predecessor, Cityarts Workshop, closed down in 1988. With a new name and a new mission, Tsipi Ben-Haim wanted the voices of our youth to be heard. She cr...Read more
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About Auction
TimedJun 17, 2021 - Jun 23, 2021
32nd Annual Gala Art Auction benefiting CITYarts, Inc., an arts and education not for profit organization pairing youth with professional artists in the creation of public art locally in NY and throughout the world. CITYarts tsipi@cityarts.org
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Pen, pencil, and color tempura on paper, 1999.
8.5 x 11 in.
Thornton Willis moved into the SoHo neighborhood in the late 60’s and was influenced by the rough edges and graffiti of the industrial cityscape at the time. Of these early experiences, Willis has said that “Wandering around this abandoned neighborhood at night was like going into a cave and reading its history on the walls.” While here during SoHo’s early period, he was also exposed to the work of fellow artists in the neighborhood and emerging fields of artistic inquiry such as Process art, which would have lasting consequences for his practice, as can be seen most prominently in his early Wall series created with a wet-on-wet method using rollers across unstretched canvas laid out on the studio floor.
In 1970, his work was included in the significant travelling exhibition Lyrical Abstraction at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, and was subsequently donated by Larry Aldrich to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Willis gained further attention early on with his Wedge series in the 1970’s and has unabashedly carried on the legacy of the New York School of painting throughout his decades-long career. His distinctive style, which is represented in the permanent collections of numerous major museums, emerges from what the artist himself has recounted as an attempted synthesis of more “lyrical” Abstract Expressionist painters (Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock) with the more subdued, cooler formalism of artists like Frank Stella or Barnett Newman. The density and configurations reflected in his recent Steps series are testimony to his continued attention to the urban environment and the changes that have come to mark SoHo.
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Works can be retrieved the night of the Gala for winning bidders in attendance or from the CITYarts offices in NoHo for online bidders throughout NY. Shipping will otherwise be coordinated on a case by case basis for lots sold to bidders out of state, internationally, or for NY residents who require shipping, and the buyer agrees to cover these costs. Contact gala@cityarts.org for more information.
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