Andrew Kreps Gallery now represents Uri Aran
Uri Aran, Visit, 2020, Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Andrew Kreps Gallery announced the representation of Uri Aran, an artist who over the past decade has developed a singular practice centered on an ongoing, philosophical inquiry into how our daily behaviors are used to create and assign meaning.
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Aran maintains a fluid relationship with material, connecting disparate subject matter through the familiar processes of everyday life - translation, mediation, and organization. Working across sculpture, film, performance, drawing, and painting, Aran employs a distinct vernacular that defies traditional linguistic systems, using recurring elements to establish rhythmic relationships across his works. Objects and motifs, such as handwriting, personal photographs, studio detritus, drawings, and ephemera repeat across surfaces of Arans sculptures, which appear as compositional experiments, o
Collector, patron and curator Melva Bucksbaum (1933-2015) was a passionate supporter of the arts throughout her life. Assembling a large collection of her own, Mrs. Bucksbaum was a risk-taking collector who focused on the artist, not art-world trends, and supported artists through her philanthropic work as well as studio acquisitions. She served as a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art and on many other boards including the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Drawing Center, and the International Council of the Tate, London. Mrs. Bucksbaum believed that art was part of our shared cultural heritage and over her lifetime donated many works of art to institutions. It is in that spirit that these works, gifted by her daughter, Mary Bucksbaum Scanlan, are being sold to benefit Art for Access at Bennington College. Art for Access celebrates Bennington College’s pioneering visual arts legacy by providing funding for s