Austin International Art Fair - Featuring Gil Bruvel

Featuring

Gil Bruvel

& 42 artists from 22 countries

international Featuring

Gil Bruvel

AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 29

ABOUDIA

FIKA LEON

ALBAN

CRYSTAL LIU

HAROLD ANCART ROBY DWI ANTONO

TAFADZWA MASUDI TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA

ZHONG BIAO

JUAN MEJIA

GIL BRUVEL

HARLAND MILLER

NICHOLAS BYRNE

YUE MINJUN

ALEXANDER CALDER

JOAN MIRO

MARC CHAGALL

YIGAL OZERI

SANDRA CHEVRIER

A.R. PENCK

SALVADOR DALI GREG DAVIS JEAN DUBUFFET CHIOMA EBINAMA

PABLO PICASSO CONRAD SHAWCROSS BERNIE TAUPIN VICTOR VASARELY

DIONISIO GONZALEZ

MARIO VELEZ

CONOR HARRINGTON

VHILS

GUO JIN JR MARI KIM

MASSIMO VITALI AI WEIWEI ZHANG XIAOGANG

Featuring Gil Bruvel West Chelsea Contemporary proudly presents the Austin International Art Fair – Featuring Gil Bruvel, a celebration of artistic brilliance that brings together 42 artists from 22 countries, each contributing to a global dialogue through their unique artistic voices. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in art that transcends geographic and cultural boundaries, reflecting the diverse and vibrant heritage of our world today. Included in Austin International Art Fair’s impressive roster are modern masters—from Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró to Salvador Dalí and Alexander Calder—whose works belong to permanent collections at the world’s most prestigious institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, and Tate Modern. Contemporary Chinese artists—such as Yue Minjun, Ai Weiwei, and Zhang Xiaogang—have each been representatives at the Venice Biennale.

International Street Art icons—from Aboudia to Fika Leon and Vhils—have become notable for their performance in the global art market. West Chelsea Contemporary invites you to experience the rich cultural tapestry of contemporary art and expand your collection with exceptional works that resonate on a global scale.

Featured in Austin International Art Fair is internationally acclaimed sculptor Gil Bruvel. Born in Australia and raised in the South of France, Bruvel now lives and works in Wimberly, Texas. Celebrated for his ability to translate profound reflections on the human condition into striking, meditative works of art, Bruvel uses thousands of wooden shafts to create his neo-surrealist and abstract sculptures. His innovative works have been exhibited worldwide in prestigious venues such as the Musée des Baux-de-Provence, France, and the Fuorisalone Milan Design Week, Italy. With a strong global presence, Bruvel’s art is represented by galleries in France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, China, Qatar, Dubai, and the United States, underscoring his significant impact on the contemporary art scene.

Join us at Austin International Art Fair and enrich your collection with works that connect you to the cultural tapestry of our world today. Engage with this international dialogue and connect with the global artistic heritage that continues to shape and inspire our world today.

GIL BRUVEL Australian-French, b.1959

Born in Australia and raised in the South of France, Gil Bruvel now lives and works in Wimberly, Texas. Celebrated for his ability to translate profound reflections on the human condition into striking, meditative works of art, Bruvel uses thousands of wooden shafts to create his neo-surrealist and abstract sculptures. Bruvel’s most recent works play with the distortion of realities, duality, and multiple perspectives.

His most notable series “Bending The Lines” transforms thousands of wooden shafts into stunning depictions of the human face. The pixelated outlines mimic our complex neural pathways, while his use of gradient color reinforces our minds’ interconnectedness. The wood is charred to show the impact of natural phenomena on the physical form and its inherently transient nature. His innovative works have been exhibited worldwide in prestigious venues such as the Musée des Baux-deProvence, France, and the Fuorisalone Milan Design Week, Italy. With a strong global presence, Bruvel’s art is represented by galleries in France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, China, Qatar, Dubai, and the United States, underscoring his significant impact on the contemporary art scene.

Gil Bruvel Breathing, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 34" x 30" x 18" $43,000

Gil Bruvel Out of the Maze, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 19" x 14" x 10" $14,000

Gil Bruvel Invisible Mind, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 17.5" x 14" x 9" $14,000

Gil Bruvel Dreamer #2, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 30" x 30" x 15" $41,000

Gil Bruvel Just Being, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks with pigmented wood stain 45" x 36" x 40" Price on request

Gil Bruvel City Limit, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 26" x 13" x 11" $15,000

Gil Bruvel Cubic #6, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 29" x 18" x 18" $24,000

Gil Bruvel Time Traveler #4, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 25" x 20" x 36" Price on request

Gil Bruvel Finding the Balance, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 18" x 16" x 9" $14,000

Gil Bruvel The Beginning, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 24.5" x 25" x 10" $16,000

Gil Bruvel City Minded #2, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 23.5" x 20" x 12" $23,000

Gil Bruvel City in the Clouds, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 22.5" x 16" x 11" $19,000

Gil Bruvel Ocean Mind, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 28.5" x 22" x 25" $32,200

Gil Bruvel Mask #293, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 12.5" x 10" x 7" $10,000

Gil Bruvel Limitless, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 10" x 10" x 7" $9,200

Gil Bruvel Lucid Mind, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 48" x 44" x 20" Price on request

Gil Bruvel Cloud #1, 2023 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 7" x 20" x 5" $5,200

Gil Bruvel Cloud #2, 2023 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 7.50" x 16" x 4.25" $4,500

Gil Bruvel Night Cloud, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 26" x 27" x 9.75" $16,000

Gil Bruvel Wavelengths #5, 2024 Wood sticks, cubes and paint 63" x 43" x 8" $42,000

Gil Bruvel Wavelengths #8, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 43" x 43" x 7" $35,000

Gil Bruvel Ebb and Flow, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 64" x 44" x 8" $42,000

Gil Bruvel Wavelengths #6, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 26" x 26" x 5.25" $19,000

Gil Bruvel Wavelengths #3, 2024 Wood sticks, cubes and paint 19" x 20" x 4.5" $12,000

Gil Bruvel Evolving, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 29" x 12" x 12" $18,000

Gil Bruvel Cubic #10, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 38" x 18" x 18" $24,000

Gil Bruvel Equilibrium, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 25" x 15" x 15" $18,000

Gil Bruvel Voyager, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 20" x 20" x 9" $20,700

Gil Bruvel Time Traveler #6, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 11" x 9" x 6.5" $9,200

Gil Bruvel Pyramid Mind, 2024 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 21" x 16" x 18" $19,550

Gil Bruvel Mask #39, 2020 Wood and paint 16" x 16" x 8" $12,650

Gil Bruvel Mask #258, 2022 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 10" x 10" x 6" $9,300

Gil Bruvel Mask #140, 2021 Wood and paint 19.34" x 20" x 12.14" $20,700

Gil Bruvel Mask #137, 2021 Wood and paint 15.34" x 15.34" x 8.50" $12,650

Gil Bruvel Mask #184, 2022 Wood and paint 16" x 16" x 8" $12,650

Gil Bruvel Threshold, 2020 Stacked wooden sticks and paint 16" x 16" x 18" $17,250

ABOUDIA Ivorian, b. 1983

Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, known as Aboudia, chronicles the street scene in his city of Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire. In his vibrant, large-scale mixed-media paintings and drawings, which recall those of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Aboudia takes inspiration from the aesthetics of graffiti and traditional African carvings. He has depicted youths in his city’s toughest neighborhoods and the violent post-election conflict that ravaged Abidjan in 2011. While his recurring skull, soldier, and bullet motifs speak to unthinkable trauma and brutality, Aboudia’s bright color palettes reinforce the enduring innocence of the children who live amid the chaos. Aboudia has exhibited widely across Côte d’Ivoire and in London, Paris, New York, and Marrakesh, among other cities. His work has been acquired by Saatchi Gallery, the Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art, and on the secondary market, it has sold for six figures.

Aboudia Untitled, 2018 Acrylic and oilstick on canvas 32.37" x 23.75" Price on request

Aboudia Untitled, 2011 Acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas 59" x 70.75" Price on request

ALBAN French, b. 1967

French artist Alban creates unique paintings related to wartime nose art. Drawing inspiration from aircraft wrecks and industrial machinery, Alban creates an illusion of heavy metal objects through paint on wood. He draws his inspiration from aircraft wrecks and industrial machinery, but his scale is distorted, colours are magnified and the subject itself is often invented. His Contemporary Pop-Art style focuses on bold expression with color and scale. After spending most of his childhood in Africa, Alban returned to his birth country of France to receive a BA in Advertising and Graphic Design and a MA in Animated Movies from Ecole des Gobelins art school in Paris. After working as a set designer in cinema for 12 years, Alban started his career as a full-time artist. Since then, his art has been exhibited in art galleries around the world, from Paris and New York to London and Hong Kong.

Alban Japan, 2019 Mixed media on wood: metal, cardboard, acrylic, and epoxy 35.40" x 35.40" x 4" $4,800

Alban Air Nederland, 2018 Mixed media on wood: metal, cardboard, acrylic, and epoxy 47.25" x 47.25" x 2" $6,800

HAROLD ANCART Belgian, b. 1980

Harold Ancart’s expansive multimedia practice broadly comments on landscapes, built environments, and the way humans move through space. The artist’s work spans paintings, sculptures, and installations, which often form grand tableaux that feature abstract color blocks and natural forms — icebergs and horizons have served as major motifs for Ancart. He received his MFA at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre and has shown in New York, London, Brussels, Paris, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Ancart’s work has sold for seven figures on the secondary market and belongs in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Albertina Museum, and the Centre Pompidou.

Harold Ancart Untitled, 2012 Oilstick and soot on c-print mounted on wood 24" x 36" $35,000

ROBY DWI ANTONO Indonesian, b. 1990

Roby Dwi Antono’s stylized portraits of wide-eyed children and mythological creatures recall the works of Pop surrealists Javier Calleja, Mark Ryden, and Yoshitomo Nara. Fusing fantastical imagery with classic Renaissance aesthetics, Antono draws upon themes of heroism, pop culture, and macabre humor to illuminate the contradictions of the human experience. In his painting Joy & Sorrow (2019), an innocent-looking young girl stands over a dead animal, holding its severed head behind her back. Antono’s work is extremely popular with collectors; his drawing Lonesome Hero #3 (2021) sold for a record $30,000 at Artsy’s “Art Keeps Nonprofits Going IV” benefit auction in 2021. Antono’s works have been exhibited in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Melbourne, and at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2021.

Antono is a self-taught painter, illustrator, and sculptor, and has a background in graphic design.

Roby Dwi Antono FLOWER BOY!, 2019 Pencil on paper 11.50" x 10.25" $15,500

ZHONG BIAO Chinese, b. 1968

Zhong Biao’s vivid, colorful paintings represent the experience of living through China’s rapid evolution from isolationism to an urbanized modern state. He works primarily with acrylic on raw canvas, blending realistic figures with surrealistic objects and abstract gestures. Zhong derives the dreamlike quality of his work from the multitude of unsettling juxtapositions of old and new in contemporary China. In Welcome, part of his 2007 series “American Debut”, he depicts children in 1960s Cultural Revolution-era garb, Han Dynasty terracotta figurines, beauty pageant imagery, and English language banners. Widely considered one of China’s most significant and recognizable contemporary artists, Zhong captures the intense simultaneity of everyday experience, layering dozens of conflicting images and deploying negative space and blank swaths of the canvas to complicate their relationships to each other, spatial and otherwise.

Zhong Biao A Sudden Glance, 2006 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 50.75" x 37.75" $19,900

NICHOLAS BYRNE British, b. 1979

Nicholas Byrne’s paintings combine abstract and figurative elements with a strong sensibility for color and formal harmony. A key part of Byrne’s work is his interest in symbols and forms, with the recurrence of fan-like motifs and geometric shapes, which the artist overlays with areas of color rendered in different textures. His canvases often reveal a personal symbolism, inherited from modernist performances, and have been compared to the translucent work of the 19th-century Swedish clairvoyant painter and mystic Hilma af Klint (1862–1944). Byrne graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005 and since has exhibited his work internationally. Byrne lives and works in London.

Nicholas Byrne Cropper, 2010 Oil on linen laid on aluminum 55.12" x 27.62" $4,500

ALEXANDER CALDER American, 1898-1976

American artist Alexander Calder changed the course of modern art by developing an innovative method of sculpting, bending, and twisting wire to create threedimensional “drawings in space.” Resonating with the Futurists and Constructivists, as well as the language of early nonobjective painting, Calder’s mobiles (a term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1931 to describe his work) consist of abstract shapes made of industrial materials––often poetic and gracefully formed and at times boldly colored––that hang in an uncanny, perfect balance. His complex assemblage Cirque Calder (1926–31), which allowed for the artist’s manipulation of its various characters presented before an audience, predated Performance Art by some 40 years. Later in his career, Calder devoted himself to making outdoor monumental sculptures in bolted sheet steel that continue to grace public plazas in cities throughout the world.

Alexander Calder Homage to Joan Prats (/100), 1965 Lithograph in colors 22.75" x 50" $17,500

MARC CHAGALL Belarusian-French, 1887-1985

Honored for his distinct style and pioneering role among Jewish artists, Marc Chagall painted dream-like subjects rooted in personal history and Eastern European folklore. He worked in several mediums, including painting, printmaking, and book illustration, and his stained glass windows can be seen in New York, France, and Jerusalem. Chagall arrived in Paris in 1910 and began experimenting with Cubism, befriending painters Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger. Chagall’s style has been described as a hybrid of Cubism, Fauvism, and Symbolism, and his supernatural subjects are thought to have significantly influenced the Surrealists. Though he actively engaged in the Parisian artistic community, art for Chagall was first and foremost a means of personal expression. He preferred to be considered separately from other artists, his imagery and allegory uniquely his own.

Marc Chagall The Four Seasons (/100), 1974 Lithograph in colors on Arches 37" x 26" $24,500

SANDRA CHEVRIER Canadian, b. 1983

Sandra Chevrier paints women’s faces, then paints snippets from famous comic books on top—always leaving the subjects’ fierce gazes uncovered. The hyperrealistic portraits explore notions of heroism, vulnerability, and gender expectations in American pop culture. Chevrier graduated with a BFA in visual and media arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal and has since exhibited in London, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Berlin, among other cities. Chevrier has produced a number of public works and collaborated with clients including the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the LINE Hotel in Austin, and Palms Casino Resort.

Sandra Chevrier La cage où le brouillard traverse l’esprit, 2017 Oil on canvas 12" x 12" $5,000

SALVADOR DALÍ Spanish, 1904-1989

Salvador Dalí was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision,” he said. Dalí is specially credited with the innovation of “paranoia-criticism,” a philosophy of art making he defined as “irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena.” In addition to meticulously painting fantastic compositions, such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929) and the melting clocks in his famed The Persistence of Memory (1931), Dalí was a prolific writer and early filmmaker, and cultivated an eccentric public persona with his flamboyant mustache, pet ocelot, and outlandish behavior and quips.

Salvador Dalí Surrealist Bullfight "Bullfight with Parrots" (89/100), 1967 Hand-colored drypoint etching 26" x 19.68" $27,500

Salvador Dalí Apollinaire "Woman Horse and Death" (35/145), 1967 Hand-colored etching 15" x 11" $10,945

Salvador Dalí Faust "Knight and Death" (94/145), 1968 Hand-colored etching 15" x 11" $11,000

Salvador Dalí Circé (24/150), 1969 Drypoint etching 15" x 22" $12,500

GREG DAVIS American

Greg Davis is a published and contributing photographer for National Geographic/Disney and was represented by the National Geographic Image Collection for over a decade. Over two hundred of his works can still be found in the archives at National Geographic. Davis’ work was recently published in National Geographic photo books, “America the Beautiful”, “Destinations of a Lifetime” and “Women: The National Geographic Image Collection”, which also has a worldwide traveling exhibition, “Women: A Century of Change”, that features some of Davis’ work. In 2017 he was honored as the Ambassador of the Year for Austin based nonprofit, Well Aware, the first time they had ever awarded this recognition. Well Aware funds and implements sustainable clean water systems that drive development and empower communities in East Africa. Davis worked his way from local festivals to international exhibitions and his works now hangs in private and institutional collections worldwide. The Wittliff Collection, The Raymond James Collection and The Grace Museum are just a few of the spaces that house Davis’ collectible works.

Greg Davis Los Zancudos, Oaxaca (11/50), 2024 Archival pigment print on museum rag paper 18" x 27" $3,000

Greg Davis Turkana Girl, Kenya (18/50) Archival pigment print on museum rag paper 24" x 24" $2,500

Greg Davis Reflections at Qeswachaka Peru (22/50), 2016 Archival pigment print on museum rag paper 30" x 45" $4,900

JEAN DUBUFFET French, 1901-1985

Jean Dubuffet’s material experimentations, thickly built-up surfaces, and raw, expressionistic brushstrokes and helped expand the boundaries of painting in the 20th century. The artist coined the term “Art Brut” to define his mode of artmaking: He drew inspiration from the innocent, unrefined style of prisoners, children, and the institutionalized. Dubuffet’s practice also spanned drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, and he occasionally combined all his pursuits into multimedia pieces accompanied by live performances. Materials such as cement, plaster, tar, and asphalt heightened the deliberate crudeness of his work. Dubuffet briefly studied traditional painting methods at the Académie Julian in Paris and only settled into his mature style years later. His work has been exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam and belongs in the collections of Moderna Museet, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Stedelijk Museum, the Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Dubuffet’s canvases have sold for up to eight figures on the secondary market.

Jean Dubuffet Personnage au chapeau (Person in a Hat) (38/50), 1962 Lithograph in colours on Arches wove paper 25.60" x 19.70" $20,000

CHIOMA EBINAMA American, b. 1988

Enigmatic and delicately rendered, Chioma Ebinama’s works on paper capture an animistic world populated by the artist’s singular iconography. She is known for collages, watercolors, and prints that combine Black figures with motifs drawn from West African cosmology and Eastern and Western folk and spiritual traditions. An MFA graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, Ebinama first received critical recognition with her presentation at the 2018 Spring/Break Art Show in New York. Her solo exhibition of drawings and prints, made with indigo dye and kozo paper, was inspired by pre-Columbian and Ibo imagery and conveyed the artist’s origin story of an imagined goddess. For Ebinama, use of mythologies and precolonial philosophies is a means of claiming authorship over her personal narrative, and exploring themes of identity, trauma, and self-liberation in a globalized world marked by deep iniquity.

Chioma Ebinama Gathering (/100), 2020 Offset lithograph in colors 10" x 8" $1,200

DIONISIO GONZALEZ Spanish, b. 1965

Dionisio González is a prominent Spanish photographer renowned for his explorations of architecture, urban landscapes, and the interaction between human habitation and the environment. His work challenges perceptions of space, blending reality with imaginative interventions to create thought-provoking compositions. The photographs are heavily processed accumulations of time, and information, condensed seamlessly within a single moment. As a post-digital maker, Dionisio González exploits photography and challenges the medium’s preconceived neutrality and objectivity assumptions. At the same time he challenges himself as being as much a photographer than a virtual architect. His photographs prompt viewers to reflect on the implications of urbanization and technological advancement on our sense of place and identity. González’ work has been exhibited at institutions worldwide, including: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Cleveland; Musée d’Art Contemporain (CAPC), Bordeaux; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museo de Arte Moderno (MAMBO), Bogotá; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto.

Dionisio Gonzalez Halong IV (4/7), 2009 C-print, diasec, mounted on dibond and aluminum 19.70" x 78.80" $18,000

GUO JIN Chinese, b. 1964

Guo Jin was born in Chengdu, in Sichuan Province, and attended the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, graduating from the oil painting department in 1990. His work consists primarily of figurative paintings, frequently taking young children as his subject matter in a juxtaposition of youth within China's own development. After graduating in the early '90s, he exhibited his work throughout China, significantly in Guangzhou Biennale's 1992 oil painting exhibition. As art institutions and infrastructure have grown within China, he has participated in an increasing number of shows, often with his brother, the artist Guo Wei. Today the artist participates in a small but lively group of artists in Chengdu who have received international recognition in the last few years. His works have been exhibited by the world’s most renowned auction houses including Phillips, Christie’s and Sotheby’s.

Guo Jin Dawn No 15, 2008 Oil on linen 86.50" x 118" $29,500

JR French, b. 1983

JR’s practice lies at the intersection of photography, street art, film, and social practice. The artist is best known for his site-specific public interventions, which usually feature large-scale, black-and-white photographs overlaid on building façades, stadium seats, and a variety of other architectural and landscape features.

His practice often comments on such issues as incarceration, immigrant rights, and poverty—yet JR infuses his work with joy and hope for change. In 2018, JR collaborated with TIME magazine on The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America, creating a magazine cover, video mural, and interactive website which included an exhibition at Pace Gallery. In 2022, JR and TIME magazine worked together again to create the Resilience of Ukraine cover, which captured the unfurling of a 148ft photograph in Lviv, Ukraine. JR’s work belongs in the collections of the Musée de l’Elysée, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum Frieder Burda. Major exhibitions and installations of JR’s work have been held at museums around the world including Centre Pompidou, France; Louvre, France; Brooklyn Museum, USA; SFMOMA, USA; and Kunsthalle München, Germany. In addition to his public interventions, JR has produced a number of films, including a collaboration with the famed French director Agnès Varda.

JR Unframed, Self-Portrait In Front of "Homme Accoudé Sur Une Table" 1915-1916, Pabloc Picasso, Paris, France (11/99), 2014 Lithograph printed on Marinoni machine on 270gsm BFK Rives paper 28" x 40" $4,500

JR Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 21 mai 2021, 20h03, Paris, France, 2021 (232/247), 2021 Giclée Print Laminated with G-gloss, Mounted on 3mm Dibond 25.19" x 37.79" $2,495

JR Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 19 mai 2021, 19h57, Paris, France, 2021 (231/247), 2021 Giclée Print Laminated with G-gloss, Mounted on 3mm Dibond 25.19" x 37.79" $2,495

MARI KIM South Korean, b. 1979

Mari Kim calls the recurring figure in her work “Eyedoll,” a cartoon-like, porcelainskinned female distinguished by her large oval eyes. In Kim’s lustrous ink-on-canvas prints, Eyedoll stares directly out from the surface; she dons different outfits and guises while standing against different backgrounds. As Eyedoll shifts through identities, Kim makes subtle alterations to the figure’s iris patterns, matching changes in costume to changes in mood. The relentless seriality of her work attends to questions of how identity can be altered with props and fashion, and it also models a kind of fetishistic Asian female identity that is confrontational in its forwardness.

Mari Kim DanChung, 2021 Genuine gold leaf and silver leaf plated, acrylic paint used on canvas 51" x 51" $38,650

Mari Kim Across the Universe, 2021 Acrylic pen, acrylic paint used, genuine gold leaf plated on canvas 64" x 51" $45,000

Mari Kim Song for Nobody, Letter No.1, 2021 Acrylic pen, color spray, oil paint on canvas 43.30" x 36.60" $28,000

FIKA LEON Indonesian, b. 1983

Fika Leon is a self-taught Indonesian artist who currently resides in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His style draws inspiration from his intimate experiences, his episodic memories, his reflections on identity, and his sense of place. Characterized by Basquiat-like bold, vivid colors and abstract shapes, Leon’s oeuvre mostly features the representation of contorted human figures and purposefully distorted faces, which at times distinctly reveal the influence of Indonesian folklore and visual imagery. According to Jonathan Toh, co-founder of the Singapore-based art gallery All About Art, Leon is one of the most successful examples of a new generation of Southeast Asian artists who manage to “blend seemingly traditional techniques and content with a new interpretation of what contemporary art should be.” Leon has begun exhibition his work worldwide and recently set an auction record of $113,315 in 2022 at Sotheby’s.

Fika Leon Wisdom of Everyone, 2023 Acrylic on canvas 55" x 47.25" $19,500

CRYSTAL LIU Canadian, b. 1980

Crystal Liu is a Canadian-born Chinese artist currently based in San Francisco, California. Through her work, Liu transforms elements of nature – the night, stars, clouds, fleshy mountains, willow trees, blood, water, owls, octopuses, and flowers – into a lexicon of characters that enact extraordinary tales based on her private joys and sorrows. Often likened to Chinese landscape painting, each element of Liu’s works are layered with meaning. Using a diverse array of materials - from fabric and textured paper to gold leaf and ink - Liu constructs landscapes as metaphors for the intangible forces that drive human beings from within. The complexities of life, from hopefulness to desolation, are carefully infused into the landscapes of her work, alluding to truths from the artist’s own private life. Liu’s work has been exhibited internationally in Asia and throughout the United States. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Microsoft Inc., and the Progressive Art Collection, among others.

Crystal Liu a balancing act "standing still", 2017 Ink, gouache, watercolor, and collage on paper 44" x 30" $12,500

TAFADZWA MASUDI Zimbabwean, b. 1988

Tafadzwa Masudi is a Zimbabwean-born self-taught artist who lives and works in Cape Town. Masudi started painting at a young age in Harare while assisting a friend of the family who introduced him to the visual arts. In 2010 he migrated to South Africa where he worked in a clothing factory until 2020 when he was laid off. This turn of events provided him with the opportunity to pursue painting full-time, leading to his artwork being featured in group exhibitions in Cape Town.Reflecting on his own experiences as a migrant, he explained, “Circumstances forced me to leave my country of birth and become a migrant. I relate to people who had to travel elsewhere to create a better life, and this is what I currently paint. Images that show their sense of self, their dreams, and their aspirations.” Masudi’s brightly colored paintings depict scenes filled with balloons, people, and patterns. Reflecting on his environmental and social experiences as a foreigner in a new country his works reflect on optimism and the pursuit of a better future. In 2022 Masudi began exhibiting internationally and has since been featured at the Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, AKAA (Also Known As Africa) Art Fair, Paris, and Blond Contemporary, London.

Tafadzwa Masudi Mukoma Fungai, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 51.16" x 47.24" $9,600

TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA American, b. 1976

Eastern and Western art history and pop culture collide in Tomokazu Matsuyama’s fantastical paintings, which explore themes of globalization and national identity in the age of the internet. The artist, who grew up between Japan and America, loads his large-scale canvases (sometimes irregularly shaped or divided into panels) with references to his bicultural background: He has taken inspiration from Pop art and manga, cowboys and samurai, graffiti and the Meiji era, Abstract Expressionism and woodblock printing. Matsuyama imbues his energetic scenes with a playful, highoctane color palette. The compositions often blur the boundaries between domestic interiors and the natural world. Matsuyama received his MFA from Pratt Institute in 2004. Since then, he has exhibited in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, among other cities. Matsuyama has completed a number of public art commissions, producing towering sculptures and murals around the world.

Tomokazu Matsuyama Broken Train Pick Me Up (33/100), 2021 Digital print with screen printed colour layers, various glitter elements and high gloss varnish on Somerset 330gsm enhanced satin paper 31.50" x 18.90" $6,500

JUAN MEJÍA Colombian, b. 1965

The work of Colombian artist and architect Juan Mejía occupies the terrain between intention and form. Working in a variety of media, from the plasticine material Sintra to rusted bronze, Mejía’s sculptures are starkly minimal while refusing the coldness that often typifies this genre. After studying architecture in his hometown of Medellin, Mejía traveled internationally and undertook studies in Vienna, Rotterdam, and Berlin. In addition to their international cultural background, the artist’s works share a close relationship with his career in architecture, which deepens their relationship with form, geometry, and the city.

Juan Mejía Origami No.6A (2/7), 2007 Cut, folded steel plate – rust finish 88.50" x 14" x 14" $14,800

Juan Mejía Origami No.7 (2/7), 2007 Cut, folded steel plate – rust finish 85.50" x 13" x 13" $14,800

Juan Mejía Totem No.1, 2013 Black-orange cut, folded and lacquered stainless steel plate 77.75" x 15" x 15" $17,500

Juan Mejía Totem No.8, 2013 White-orange cut, folded and lacquered stainless steel plate 77.50" x 18" x 18" $17,500

HARLAND MILLER British, b. 1964

Writer and artist Harland Miller explores the relationship between words and images —and the process of producing meaning—in his paintings, sculptures, and mixedmedia works. Interested in canonical authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway and drawing influence from Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, Anselm Kiefer, and Robert Rauschenberg, Miller pointedly combines text and images to comment on the frequent disconnect between representation and reality. For one series of paintings, he transformed canvases into satirical Penguin book covers, inventing keenly witty titles—like The Me I Never Knew (2009)—to send up classical literary motifs. The (often torturous) process of writing itself is the subject of another series, in which Miller covers vintage typewriters with splashes of paint, giving the works titles like, Writing is easy—all you do is feed in a sheet of white A4 paper and stare at it till your forehead bleeds (2009).

Harland Miller Don’t Let The Bastards Cheer You Up, 2016 Acrylic, glitter, and graphite on hand finished print 46.50" x 33" Price on request

Harland Miller The Me I Never Knew (4/50), 2013 Silkscreen print in colors on wove paper 49" x 39" $35,000

Harland Miller Five Ring Circus-It's All Fun and Games Till Someone Loses an Eye (14/50), 2012 Giclée print in colors on German etching paper 37.50" x 29.37" $30,000

Harland Miller Overcoming Optimism (44/50), 2014 Screenprint in colors on wove paper 54.33" x 43.31" $30,000

YUE MINJUN Chinese, b. 1962

In his oil paintings, Yue Minjun often inserts himself in iconic moments in art history, painting exaggerated self-portrait figures in candy colors. The figures bear wide smiles with gaping mouths as they enact poses from the works of Caravaggio and other artists from the Western canon. Transforming himself into an icon, the artist has said, “was not meant as a self-portrait in its traditional sense, but something more like a movie star acting in different roles.” Surrealism was an early influence on Yue, who shot to the top of an explosive Chinese contemporary scene as a member of the Cynical Realist movement, his serious political criticism and social commentary hidden behind the mask of his smiling faces. In another series, Yue turned his practice on its head, recreating famous Western and Chinese socialist paintings as empty settings with their subjects removed.

Yue Minjun Untitled (from The Giants of Contemporary Chinese Art Portfolio) (17/99), 2005 Lithograph 21.90" x 29.40" $8,500

JOAN MIRÓ Spanish, 1893-1983

Joan Miró rejected the constraints of traditional painting, creating works “conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” as he once said. Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, though never officially part of the group, Miró pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism—a method of “random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon. “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music,” he said. While he prized artistic freedom, Miró revered art history, basing a series of works on the Dutch Baroque interiors of Hendrick Sorgh and Jan Steen. In turn, Miró has inspired many artists—significantly Arshile Gorky, whose bold linear abstractions proved a foundational influence on Abstract Expressionism.

Joan Miró L’Escalier de la Nuit (/75), 1970 Etching with aquatint in colors 24.5" x 32" $35,000

Joan Miró Le Puisatier (/75), 1969 Etching and aquatint in colors 41.75" x 26.25" $27,500

Joan Miró The Illiterate with Red Squares (/75), 1969 Lithograph on red and white checkered cloth pasted against Mandeure chiffon paper 33.5" x 23.75" $19,500

YIGAL OZERI Israeli, b. 1958

Yigal Ozeri succinctly summarizes his current practice as follows: “I paint women in nature.” Though he insists that his large-scale, photorealistic paintings are “reality,” because they are based on videos and photographs he takes of his subjects, his works are also infused with a Pre-Raphaelite sense of fantasy, imagination, and ethereality. Ozeri often catches his female protagonists in pensive, dreamy states, seeming to merge with their natural surroundings. In a series from 2010, he painted Lizzie Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger, in a wintry Central Park, New York, rendering each strand of her flowing chestnut hair, the rich textures of her clothing, and the glint of sunlight on her clear skin with brilliant clarity.

Yigal Ozeri Untitled, Ai Weiwei, 2022 Oil on canvas 54" x 36" Price on request

Yigal Ozeri Untitled, Yayoi Kusama, 2022 Oil on canvas 36" x 54" Price on request

A.R. PENCK German, 1939-2017

A.R. Penck made paintings and sculptures that feature neo-primitive symbols, figures, and patterns; he rose to prominence alongside fellow Neo-Expressionists such as Georg Baselitz and Jörg Immendorff. The group shared a brusque formal language and an interest in the political systems and cultural history of Germany.

Penck was particularly critical of the repressive policies in East Berlin, where he lived until 1980. The artist developed a spare formal language in his paintings and, early in his career, used everyday materials such as cardboard boxes, slats, used bottles, tinfoil, and wood throughout his sculpture. He exhibited in Cologne and West Berlin, participated in Documenta, and showed at institutions including the Gropius Bau and the Tate. His work has sold for six figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Tate, the Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.

A. R. Penck Reclining Figure (17/35), 1983 Etching 21" x 29" $4,300

PABLO PICASSO Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. Picasso’s sizable oeuvre grew to include over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs. He painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), in response to the Spanish Civil War; the totemic grisaille canvas remains a definitive work of anti-war art. At auction, a number of Picasso’s paintings have sold for more than $100 million. The indefatigable artist has been the subject of exhibitions at the world’s most prestigious institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art and Centre Pompidou to the Stedelijk Museum and Tate Modern.

Pablo Picasso Sculpteur au Travail (/20), 1964 Aquatint 21" x 16.25" $35,000

Pablo Picasso Deux Clowns (/50), 1954 Lithograph in colors 29" x 21" $29,500

CONRAD SHAWCROSS British, b. 1977

Conrad Shawcross uses diverse materials and mediums to create ambitious structural and mechanical installations informed by geometry, philosophy, physics, and metaphysics. Feigning usefulness and theoretical rigor, Shawcross’s enigmatic machine-like installations, rich with scientific references, are filled with paradox, absurdity, and whimsy. In 2011, Shawcross was an artist-in-residence at the Science Museum in London where he created Protomodel, an installation of five projects displayed alongside the museum’s scientific exhibits that paid homage to the museum's mathematics section on his practice, variously referencing models, functions, and instruments.

Conrad Shawcross Plosion 3, 2015 Aluminium and glass 46.50" x 59.25" x 44.25" $32,500

BERNIE TAUPIN British, b. 1950

A renowned songwriter-turned-visual artist, Bernie Taupin considers himself a storyteller first and foremost. He views art as a visual extension of his song lyrics.

Taupin works in an abstract expressionist style that incorporates elements of pop art, synthesizing the signature styles and ideologies of Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. Using house paint, oil paint, wood stains, and spray paint, Taupin mobilizes color and form to convey emotions. Bright colors in oblong shapes connote affection, while dark colors with fragmented edges are associated with pain. When he worked as a songwriter for Elton John, Taupin channeled an affinity for the American West into his lyrics; now he cites urban environments as inspirations for his paintings.

Bernie Taupin American Burka, 2004 Wrapped fabric, twine, wire, barbed wire, lock on mannequin 68" x 19" x 20" Price on request

VICTOR VASARELY Hungarian-French, 1906-1997

Considered one of the progenitors of Op Art for his optically complex and illusionistic paintings, Victor Vasarely spent the course of a long, critically acclaimed career seeking, and arguing for, an approach to art making that was deeply social. He placed primary importance on the development of an engaging, accessible visual language that could be universally understood—this language, for Vasarely, was geometric abstraction, more commonly known as Op Art. Through precise combinations of lines, geometric shapes, colors, and shading, he created eyepopping paintings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality.

More than pleasing tricks for the eye, Vasarely insisted, “pure form and pure color can signify the world.”

Victor Vasaraly Oeuvre Vert et Orange (/250), 1980 Screenprint 26.25" x 26.25" $3,950

Victor Vasarely Louisiana I (from the Louisiana Portfolio) (234/275), 1985 Screenprint 28" x 28" $4,950

Victor Vasarely Purple Long (21/250), 1977 Silkscreen 34.25" x 20.50" $6,950

Victor Vasarely Papillon (184/250), 1981 Silkscreen 27.50" x 34" $6,950

Victor Vasarely Ion 7 (from Hommage a L’Hexagone) (33/200), 1969 Screenprint 25.50" x 25.25" $3,950

Victor Vasaraly Composition Cinetique (/60), 1970 Screenprint 29" x 31.5" $2,500

MARIO VÉLEZ Colombian, b. 1968

The work of Colombian artist Mario Vélez is best characterized by the artist's clever combination of the two most identifiable trends in abstract art, uniting the structural and geometric with the intuitive and organic. During the 1980s and 1990s Vélez studied art internationally, in his native city of Medellin, as well as Vienna and Berlin.

This invaluable experience coalesced in three visual languages that the artist continues to work in today: the forms of pre-Colombian culture, the language of abstraction, and the color of expressionism. Vélez has exhibited his artwork worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, among others. The artist lives and works in Medellin, Colombia.

Mario Vélez Atlas, 2014-2015 Oil, polyester and acrylic on canvas 95" x 74" $39,900

Mario Vélez Guerras Pequeñas, 2008 Oil and acrylic on canvas 23.60" x 94.50" $18,900

VHILS Portuguese, b. 1987

Vhils, the pseudonym of Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto, has become synonymous with his signature approach to street portraiture. Working both outdoors and indoors, his large-scale, detailed images are achieved by scratching, drilling, and using bleach to tear away at billboards, walls, and found panels. The subjects therefore become one with the architecture and detritus that Vhils uses as both substrate and medium. His groundbreaking bas-relief carving technique has been hailed as one of the most compelling approaches to art created in the streets in the last decade. Challenging the notion that graffiti art is socially disruptive, Vhils sees the medium as a force to push the boundaries of the politics of communication in the social arena. An avid experimentalist, Vhils has been developing his personal aesthetics in a plurality of media besides his signature carving technique: from stencil painting to metal etching, from pyrotechnic explosions and video to sculptural installations. Since 2005, he has presented his work in over 30 countries around the world.

Vhils Ataxia 12, 2013 Hand-carved old wooden doors assembled 86.76" x 59.10" Price on request

Vhils Dicey Series #22, 2019 Hand cut and laser-cut advertising posters 70" x 47" $37,500

MASSIMO VITALI Italian, b. 1944

Massimo Vitali is famous for his large-format color photographs of beach scenes.

Throughout the 1960s, he worked as a photojournalist for European magazines and agencies. In the early 1980s, losing faith in his medium’s ability to adequately capture reality, Vitali shifted to cinematography and worked on television and film.

Eventually, he returned to using the still camera for the purpose of creative research. Vitali began capturing panoramas of sun-soaked beaches in his native Italy in 1995, immortalizing their crowds, architecture, and natural beauty. He’s since widened his scope, shooting beachgoers in Turkey, Spain, and beyond. Vitali has exhibited in New York, London, Vienna, Tokyo, and Rome, among other cities, and his work has been acquired by the Guggenheim, the Museo Reina Sofía, and the Elton John Collection. While Vitali’s photographs capture a hazy, Mediterranean beauty, they also consider leisure, voyeurism, and conformity.

Massimo Vitali Les Menuires Quartett 3 (No. 0568) (9/9), 1999 Mural-sized chromogenic print, front-mounted to acrylic, flush-mounted to aluminum 59.75" x 75" $45,000

AI WEIWEI Chinese, b. 1957

A cultural figure of international renown, Ai Weiwei is an activist, architect, curator, filmmaker, and China’s most famous artist. Open in his criticism of the Chinese government, Ai was famously detained for months in 2011, then released to house arrest. “I don’t see myself as a dissident artist,” he says. “I see them as a dissident government!” Some of Ai’s best known works are installations, often tending towards the conceptual and sparking dialogue between the contemporary world and traditional Chinese modes of thought and production. For Sunflower Seeds (2010) at the Tate Modern, he scattered 100 million porcelain “seeds” handpainted by 1,600 Chinese artisans—a commentary on mass consumption and the loss of individuality. His infamous Coca Cola Vase (1994) is a Han Dynasty urn emblazoned with the ubiquitous soft-drink logo. Ai also served as artistic consultant on the design of the “Bird’s Nest” stadium for Beijing’s 2008 Olympics, and has curated pavilions and museum exhibitions around the globe.

Ai Weiwei Artist's Hand (X/1000), 2017 Cast urethane resin multiple with electroplated rhodium 5.25" x 5" x 5" $8,475

Ai Weiwei Finger (from the Ex-Votos series) (1/1), 2018 Wood 12" x 3.75" $15,750

ZHANG XIAOGANG Chinese, b. 1958

Relying on memory to recreate a highly personal version of his country’s history, Zhang Xiaogang makes art that is as much about himself as it is about China’s past.

The grim imaginary families in his “Bloodlines: The Big Family” paintings of the 1990s and his 2005–06 series of grisaille portraits in oil reveal countless narratives about the aspirations and failures of the Cultural Revolution as well as Zhang’s own emotions. Like the blank visages of the individuals in these paintings, Zhang’s brass and concrete sculptures of figures, as well as implements used for recording history (such as fountain pens, notebooks, and light bulbs, all 2009), appear compressed and distorted by memory, age, and some unknown force.

Zhang Xiaogang Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper 30.25" x 37" $7,000

Zhang Xiaogang Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper 30.25" x 37" $7,000

Zhang Xiaogang Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper 30.25" x 37" $7,000

Zhang Xiaogang Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper 37" x 30.25" $7,000

Zhang Xiaogang Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper 37" x 30.25" $7,000

Zhang Xiaogang Untitled, from Bloodline Series (97/99), 2006 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper 37" x 30.25" $7,000

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West Chelsea Contemporary’s collection includes artists influential to Pop Art, Street Art, Graffiti, Post-Graffiti and contemporary art as well as tastemakers of these movements. With a local, national, and international roster of represented artists, West Chelsea Contemporary situates artwork from the primary market alongside a highly curated selection of pieces from the secondary market. This novel display of represented, emerging and mid-career artists alongside Blue Chip masters increases each artist’s exposure and serves to make connections between their work.

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