SANDOW BIRK
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Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk is a well-travelled graduate of the Otis/Parson's Art Institute. He was a recipient of an NEA International Travel Grant to Mexico City in 1995 to study mural painting, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, and a Fulbright Fellowship for painting to Rio de Janeiro for 1997. In 1999 he was awarded a Getty Fellowship for painting, followed by a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship in 2001. In 2007 he was an artist in residence at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2008.
In 2017 Birk completed an artist residency at Auckland Print Studio during which he completed a series of works entitled: 'The Horrible & Terrible Deeds & Words of the Very Renowned Trumpagruel.' The project was inspired by the books 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' written by François Rabelais in the 16th Century, which tell of the adventures and misadventures of two bumbling giants. They are an edition of 10 each and come in a purpose-made folder, which itself features a lithograph printed title panel and chine-collé. P.P.O.W Gallery in New York exhibited the works in January 2019 to much acclaim. 'Trumpagruel' has been collected by The University of California, Davis and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AOG). The works are due to be exhibited later this year at AOG in 'Political Satire Through History', alongside works by James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and Honoré Daumier (among others). Birk also completed a lithograph 'Proposal for a Monument to What About-ism' that contributed to his ongoing project series 'Imaginary Monuments.' The works in the series are fictional, fantastical monuments based on historic world documents and treaties intended to examine and ponder their effects on our contemporary lives. The project is being published by the Catharine Clark Gallery and Paul Mullowney Printing, both in San Francisco, with private support. They appeared in a debut institutional exhibition 'Monumental' at the Long Beach Museum of Art from January 25th to April 2019. Birk is represented by the Koplin del Rio Gallery in Seattle, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco and P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City. | |||
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