Group Portrait
119.4 cms x 152.4 cms (47 ins x 60 ins)
On verso titled, editioned ap 1/1 from an edition of 3 and dated 2005
printed in 2005
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "The Collection of George Hartman and Arlene Goldman (5th session)" held on Thu, Sep 28, 2023.
Lot 409
Lot 409
Estimate: CAD $6,000 - $8,000
Realised: CAD $7,500
Realised: CAD $7,500
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Jukue Saul Gallery, New York
Collection of George Hartman and Arlene Goldman, Toronto
Exhibitions:
Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, Sarah Anne Johnson: Tree Planting, March 17 - April 28, 2006
Notes:
Sarah Anne Johnson’s practice uses photography as a base for manipulation, generating images that cross the boundary between documentary and emotive resonance. Group Portrait is taken from her series Tree Planting. In these images, Johnson photographed her friends and co-workers during one of several summer stints working as a tree-reforester in Northern Manitoba. Johnson’s captured moments of backbreaking labour and exhausted leisure are spun together into a sublime utopia of the outdoors. In addition to portraits and landscapes, she also produced several images constructed from modeling clay. Based on real events that couldn’t be photographed at the time, these handmade dioramas seem to blend fact with fiction, capturing reconstructed moments in time that have been mediated by the distance of memory and the physical immediacy of sculpture.
Please note: this work is unframed.
Jukue Saul Gallery, New York
Collection of George Hartman and Arlene Goldman, Toronto
Exhibitions:
Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, Sarah Anne Johnson: Tree Planting, March 17 - April 28, 2006
Notes:
Sarah Anne Johnson’s practice uses photography as a base for manipulation, generating images that cross the boundary between documentary and emotive resonance. Group Portrait is taken from her series Tree Planting. In these images, Johnson photographed her friends and co-workers during one of several summer stints working as a tree-reforester in Northern Manitoba. Johnson’s captured moments of backbreaking labour and exhausted leisure are spun together into a sublime utopia of the outdoors. In addition to portraits and landscapes, she also produced several images constructed from modeling clay. Based on real events that couldn’t be photographed at the time, these handmade dioramas seem to blend fact with fiction, capturing reconstructed moments in time that have been mediated by the distance of memory and the physical immediacy of sculpture.
Please note: this work is unframed.
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(*) 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.