Live Auction 3715First Open/NYC
Thomas Houseago (b. 1972)
Lot 187

Thomas Houseago (b. 1972)

Abstract Head II

Closed6 March 2015

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USD 50,000

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Thomas Houseago (b. 1972)
Abstract Head II
Tuf-Cal, hemp, iron, rebar, redwood and graphite
83 x 22 1/2 x 16 in. (210.8 x 57.1 x 40.6 cm.)
Executed in 2009.

Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Private collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"You could argue that sculpture is a dramatization of the space between your eye and the world, between looking and recording, between that you see and feel and memory. I try to allow as much as possible to happen while I'm working on the piece and yet keep it contained within a single object. That seems to get the most truthful results."
- T. Houseago, quoted in R. Rosenfield Lafo, "Speaking: A Conversation with Thomas Houseago," Sculpture, November 2010, p. 29.