Vessel Group
104.1 cms x 105.4 cms (41 ins x 41.5 ins)
On verso signed on the back of the work, titled and dated 1992 on the gallery label
printed in 1992
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Vancouver Art Gallery Art Auction 2021 - Spring Forward" held on Tue, Jun 15, 2021.
Lot h025
Lot h025
Estimate: CAD $4,000 - $6,000
Realised: CAD $5,313
Realised: CAD $5,313
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Donated by the Artist
Courtesy of Republic Gallery, Vancouver
Notes:
Carol Sawyer is an accomplished Vancouver-based visual artist and singer working predominately with photography, video, installation and improvised music. Since the early 1990s, her work has been concerned with the connections between photography and fiction, performance, memory and history. Her ongoing project The Natalie Brettschneider Archive has been shown at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and at Carleton University Art Gallery. Sawyer was awarded the 2017 Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography by the Canada Council for the Arts.
In the early 1990s, Sawyer experimented with collage using fragments of film negatives. A result of an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, this work was first featured in Sawyer’s solo exhibition Vessels at the Or Gallery in 1993. For this photographic series, Sawyer photographed individually small found objects made from glass—perfume bottles, salt and pepper shakers, vials, vases and the like—against a black background. She then cut and collaged together the negatives to construct composite images of vessels in various groupings, leaving the lines of tape visible. Portrayed large-scale, these vessels take on an anthropomorphic quality—simultaneously referencing the human body while moving beyond fixed categories of gender.
This is a unique work.
Please note: Consignor Hammer Price proceeds of this lot will benefit the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The Buyer is hereby advised to read fully the Terms and Conditions of Business and Catalogue Terms, including the Vancouver Art Gallery Art Auction 2021 | Spring Forward HO2 Sale Notice and Special Terms of Sale, and any Addendum or Erratum specific to the Vancouver Art Gallery Art Auction 2021 | Spring Forward HO2 auction.
Donated by the Artist
Courtesy of Republic Gallery, Vancouver
Notes:
Carol Sawyer is an accomplished Vancouver-based visual artist and singer working predominately with photography, video, installation and improvised music. Since the early 1990s, her work has been concerned with the connections between photography and fiction, performance, memory and history. Her ongoing project The Natalie Brettschneider Archive has been shown at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and at Carleton University Art Gallery. Sawyer was awarded the 2017 Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography by the Canada Council for the Arts.
In the early 1990s, Sawyer experimented with collage using fragments of film negatives. A result of an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, this work was first featured in Sawyer’s solo exhibition Vessels at the Or Gallery in 1993. For this photographic series, Sawyer photographed individually small found objects made from glass—perfume bottles, salt and pepper shakers, vials, vases and the like—against a black background. She then cut and collaged together the negatives to construct composite images of vessels in various groupings, leaving the lines of tape visible. Portrayed large-scale, these vessels take on an anthropomorphic quality—simultaneously referencing the human body while moving beyond fixed categories of gender.
This is a unique work.
Please note: Consignor Hammer Price proceeds of this lot will benefit the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The Buyer is hereby advised to read fully the Terms and Conditions of Business and Catalogue Terms, including the Vancouver Art Gallery Art Auction 2021 | Spring Forward HO2 Sale Notice and Special Terms of Sale, and any Addendum or Erratum specific to the Vancouver Art Gallery Art Auction 2021 | Spring Forward HO2 auction.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.