Paul Sietsema
American · b. 1968 · Painter, Printmaker
Paul Sietsema is a Los Angeles–based American artist who works primarily in film, painting and drawing. His work addresses the production, consumption, and proliferation of… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
Note DrawingPhillips · $43,750≈ £33,222≈ €36,951Sign up to see
Concession drawing 2Phillips · $37,800≈ £31,759≈ €36,304Sign up to see
UntitledPhillips · $1,207≈ £923≈ €1,075Sign up to see
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Paul Sietsema is a Los Angeles–based American artist who works primarily in film, painting and drawing. His work addresses the production, consumption, and proliferation of cultural objects, reflecting his interest in the possibility of an artwork to mediate information or meaning in a way that engages with the aesthetics of a specific time period. In the words of Sarah Robayo Sheridan, “Paul Sietsema compounds organic and artificial detritus in all his artwork, scavenging in history’s wake to identify specific tools of cultural production and foraging for concepts of art promulgated in the words of artists and attitudes of critics. He mines film as a vestige, the medium of the mechanical age, pressing and squeezing its very obsolescence through a contemporary sieve. In so doing, the artist hovers in the switchover between a bodily inscription in the image and a fundamental reconstitution of sight and representation in the matrix of the virtual.
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In the collections of
TateMetropolitan Museum of ArtMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaMuseum of Modern ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtWhitney Museum of American Art
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