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Lot Essay
Including: Two Floppy Combs; Double Recursive Combs-Horizontal; Recursive Combs-Vertical; Floppy Recursive Combs; and Heliopolis
Siena completed several artist-in-residency programs, most notably at the Yaddo artist community, Saratoga Springs, New York in 2004. He was elected a Member of the Board there in 2008.
'When I make a painting, I respond to a set of parameters, like a visual algorithm. These structuring devices are subject to the fallibility of my hand, and my minds ability to complete the work as planned.'
(R. Hobbs, James Siena: 1991-2001, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, 2001, p. 8.)
Siena completed several artist-in-residency programs, most notably at the Yaddo artist community, Saratoga Springs, New York in 2004. He was elected a Member of the Board there in 2008.
'When I make a painting, I respond to a set of parameters, like a visual algorithm. These structuring devices are subject to the fallibility of my hand, and my minds ability to complete the work as planned.'
(R. Hobbs, James Siena: 1991-2001, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, 2001, p. 8.)