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2024 Benefit Auction

Mon, Sep 16, 2024 12:00PM EDT - Mon, Sep 30, 2024 08:30PM EDT
  2024-09-16 12:00:00 2024-09-30 20:30:00 America/New_York Drawing Center Drawing Center : 2024 Benefit Auction https://auction.drawingcenter.org/auctions/the-drawing-center/2024-benefit-auction-16224
"A Selection of Great Art by People Who Know What They Like." Funds raised through TDC's 2024 benefit auction will provide critical support for our ambitious roster of exhibitions, publications, education initiatives, and public programs. Bidding begins on Monday, September 16 at 12pm EST, and closes on Monday, September 30 at 8:30pm EST.
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Lot 151

Tariku Shiferaw, "Topdown (Channel Tres)", 2024

Estimate: $6,000 - $6,000
Starting Bid
$3,600

Bid Increments

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TARIKU SHIFERAW
"Topdown (Channel Tres)", 2024
Graphite, paper, iridescent film
25 ¾ x 19 ¾ inches (65.4 x 50.2 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

 

Selected by Priscila Hudgins 

 

Tariku Shiferaw is a New York based artist who explores the concept of ‘mark-making’ to address the physical, social, and political spaces of art and societal constructs. A select list of institutions Shiferaw exhibited with include the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), Baltimore Museum of Art (Maryland), The Drawing Center (New York), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (Cleveland), California African American Museum (Los Angeles), Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw), Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco), and Smack Mellon (Brooklyn).

Shiferaw has participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2018-2019) and in Open Sessions at The Drawing Center (2018-2020). He has also been an artist-in-residence at the LES Studio Program (NY), Silver Art Projects (NY), ARCAthens (Greece), Experimental Print Residency at Lafayette College (PA), and Vermont College of Fine Arts (VA).

 

Overall Dimensions
Height: 25.75
Width: 19.75

Artworks purchased at the auction will be available for pickup at The Drawing Center beginning on October 3, 2024. Wrapping of the artwork is provided.

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