Art
Stunning Lace Map by Visual Artists Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
- Item Number
- 102
- Estimated Value
- 2500 USD
- Leading Bid
- 1001 USD
- Number of Bids
- 14 - Bid History
Item Description
"RoosevElvis 2012" (20"x31" unframed, "24"x37" framed) is a found road map of the United State overlaid with silhouettes of Theodore Roosevelt and Elvis Presley in a rumination on the iconography of American Masculinity. The piece incorporates silk screen printing into the artists' signature technique of elaborately cutting maps to leave a lace-paper, arterial network of roads and rivers.
If the buyer lives in the NYC area Nick and Jake will come install the piece for you with shelf and glass (like this: http://nickandjakestudio.com/artwork/2518117_Malboro.html). If you live outside the NYC area, buyer will also have to pay for shipping and Nick and Jake will send directions for install. (Or you can pay for them to travel to you . . . they like to travel).
In addition to being members of the TEAM, Margolin and Vaughan are resident artists at HERE Art Center in SoHo, and were finalists for the New York Foundation For the Arts Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking, 2011. There work has been exhibited at HERE, DoubleTake Gallery in Saugarties, NY and most recently at ArtCenter/ South Florida in Miami. Of the show in Miami, Eduardo Alexander Rabel wrote in ArtSlant Miami:
"The stars of this exhibition are the New York-based husband-and-husband team of Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan. Each of their works starts with an actual road map, either of the U.S. or New York state. Crisply-outlined images and/or text are "added" by painstakingly cutting away sections of the map, letting the resulting voids become positive space, while the physical map becomes negative space. This process—along with background video footage from Utah and Nevada—allows the artists to bring together images of the American West with personal imagery. The result is a poignant meditation on their ambivalent relationship with their own nation—this beautiful "land of the free" where marriage equality has finally been achieved in a handful of states, yet where, in most places, equal rights for LGBT people still remains but a dream."
http://www.artslant.com/mia/articles/show/30151
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