Lot 227
227
Steve Roden (B. 1964)
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Steve Roden (B. 1964)

if dunes dream and reds sleep in pairs...

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Steve Roden (B. 1964)
if dunes dream and reds sleep in pairs...
signed, titled and dated 'STEVE RODEN if dunes dream and reds sleep in pairs... 2007/2008' (on the overlap), signed and titled 'STEVE RODEN if dunes dream and reds sleep in pairs...' (on the stretcher)
oil and acrylic on linen
48 ¼ x 35in. (122.7 x 88.8cm.)
Painted in 2007-2008
Provenance
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Lines and Spaces, 2008.
Nevada, Las Vegas Art Museum, L.A. Now, 2008-2009 (illustrated, pp. 58-59).
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Lot Essay

The poetic, evocative title of Steve Roden’s if dunes dream and reds sleep in pairs… belies that the artist is a practicing musician, who has produced work for the Los Angeles Library, amongst other patrons. This clearly influences the lyrical vectors of colours that trace their way in opposing lines of force across the picture plane. It likely also inflects the juxtapositions and layering that, like free-from jazz stylings, weave from one way of rendering a passage to another, amounting to an aggregative palimpsest of buzzing colour and line.

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