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Round
Oil on canvas
14 x 18 inches
Courtesy of Harper's
Starting bid: $2,000
Estimated value: $3,500-$5,000
Artist Jeremy Lawson creates paintings, sculptures, and text-based artworks that pay homage to art history while challenging conventions and norms in each artform. In his paintings, he uses a brushless approach that points to and expands upon the legacy of Abstract Expressionism. His canvases, densely packed with pigment, are textural landscapes formed by craters, blotches, and clumps of oil paint. Opting to use his hands instead of a paintbrush, Ways and Means 2 is strongly gestural, balancing moments of aggressive action with delicate touch to create a chaotic yet harmonious composition.
Jeremy Lawson
Ways and Means 2, 2023
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Jeremy Lawson
Jeremy Lawson (b. 1980, Warren, PA) received a BFA from Syracuse University in 2003, and an MFA from Hunter College in 2021. In 2022, Lawson was a recipient of the prestigious Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Most recently, his work has been exhibited at Harper’s, New York, Los Angeles, and East Hampton (2024, 2023, and 2022); CFHILL, Stockholm (2023 and 2022); Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles (2023); Zona Maco, Mexico City (2023); Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2022); Hauser & Wirth, New York (2021); and Kristen Lorello, New York (2019). He has an upcoming solo presentation at Carl Kostyál, London, in the fall of 2024. Lawson currently lives and works in NewYork City.