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black pencil. For each work in this series of drawings, Grotjahn then sets aside the required number of color pencils, choosing colors that "hold together" in value and intensity. Having laid them next to him, he chooses one pencil at random and uses it to color in a single, pre-segmented wing section.
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Grotjahn paints grew out of conceptual sign making; he would faithfully reproduce
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Grotjahn's mask sculptures extend the artist's idiosyncratic investment in the process and ritual of painting into three dimensions. Cast in bronze from spontaneous cardboard assemblages and often painted with fingers, most of them rest on pedestals, while a few are wall-mounted, referring directly
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Grotjahn began working with colored pencils to develop "perspective drawings" and then perspectival paintings. In his multi-colored drawings, Grotjahn's working method is systematic and rigorous but also allows for intuition and chance. He first begins by mapping out the triangular radii in
398:(2005) for $ 1,217,000, including premium. By Grotjahn's estimation, Valentine had made $ 3 million by selling the three artworks. After more than a year of court filings and court-ordered mediation, both parties settled the dispute in 2012 over the payment of the resale royalty specified by the
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Renaissance perspectival techniques for the structures and subjects of his multiple-vanishing-point butterfly patterns in order to create the illusion that his geometries stretch, shrink, approach, and recede. While they appear at first glance to be rigidly formal and
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Grotjahn had his first solo shows with Blum & Poe in 1998 and 2000, selling only one artwork from the second show. Demand for
Grotjahn's works has climbed steadily in recent years, with prices now typically reaching $ 500,000 to $ 800,000. In 2010, Grotjahn's oil on linen painting
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Madison, Maine. When he moved to Los Angeles in 1996, he opened a gallery called Room 702 in Hollywood with his classmate Brent Petersen and started showing and working with other artists. Despite an invitation to move into the 6150 complex on
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and breaking a shoulder bone after hitting an ice patch in a ski accident. As he could not paint for more than two hours at a time, he discovered less intensive ways of painting. A series of large, vertical
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peculiar graphics and phrases from local storefronts in his native Los
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Mark Grotjahn: Dancing Black Butterflies, February 26 - March 11, 2008
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Behind the Mask: Mark Grotjahn Lifts the Veil on His Secret Sculptures
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