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Sky Backdrop
2013 · Acrylic on canvas
Overall: 108 × 192 in. (274.3 × 487.7 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Alex Israel
1982
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53
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Alex Israel is a Los Angeles-based artist working across painting, sculpture, and video to explore vernacular Americana, consumer culture, and the aesthetics of leisure and display. His practice combines appropriation and observational painting with large-scale installations that reference billboard design and commercial signage.
Source: Gagosian · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago
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Almine Rech
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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