Details
KEITH EDMIER (b. 1967)
Jill Peters
polyvinyl, wax, cotton, rayon, polyester, leather, silicone and human hair
65 x 3912 x 46 in. (165.1 x 100.3 x 116.8 cm.)
Executed in 1997. This work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.
Provenance
Petzel Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998
Literature
K. Levin, "Voice Choices: Keith Edmier," The Village Voice, February 24, 1998, vol. XLIII, no.8, p. 78.
R. Smith, "Keith Edmier," The New York Times, February 27, 1998, p. E38.
S. Schmerler, "Keith Edmier," Time Out New York, March 1998, p. 46.
D. Greene, "Keith Edmier," Frieze, May 1998, pp. 80-81.
J. Hutchinson, Keith Edmier, exh. cat., Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1998.
J. Avgikos, The Shape of Art at the End of the Century, Sculpture, Vol. 17 no. 4, April, 1998, pp. 46-53.
B. Riemschneider and U.G. Taschen (eds.), Art at the Turn of the Millennium, 1999 pp. 138-141.
Presumed Innocence, exh. cat., Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2000.
Potent Presents: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, exh. cat., California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, 2000.
J.P. Stern, "Farrah falls for young hunk," New York Post - Page Six, December 28, 2001, p. 6.
B. Hainley, "Pop Quiz: 20 Questions on Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett," Frieze, October 2002, pp. 64-65.
L. Zelevansky, Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett: Recasting Pygmalion, New York, 2002.
M.G. Lord, "A Sculptor and His Famous Muse Make Art Together," The New York Times, November 17, 2002, pp. 33-34.
C. Reynolds, Poster to Pedestal, Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2002, pp. E1, E16.
Contemporary Projects 7: Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett 2000, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 2002-February 2003.
C. Knight, "Like, Conceptual, Dude," Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2002.
M. Grynsztejn, Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2003, pp. 93, 168.
R. Taylor, "Keith Edmier," Contemporary, no. 64, 2004, pp. 30-33 (illustrated).
Specialten: DVD Magazine, Issue no. 14, 2007 (illustrated on the cover).
Keith Edmier: 1991-2007, exh. cat., New York, Annandale-on-Hudson, 2007.
B. Genocchio, "Don’t Let the Titles Fool You," The New York Times, November 18, 2007, p. 12 (illustrated).
J. Saltz, "Best of Art 2007," New York Magazine, December 17, 2007, pp. 74-75.
T. Vanderbilt, "Keith Edmier, 1991-2007," Artforum Best of 2007, December 2007, pp. 340-341 (illustrated).
H. Cotter, "Personal History, Captured in Plastic," The New York Times, January 11, 2008, pp. E33-34.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Keith Edmier, March 1997 (another example exhibited).
New York, Metro Pictures, Keith Edmier, February-March 1998.
Dublin, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Keith Edmier, 1998 (another example exhibited).
Musee d’Art contemporain de Bordeaux, Presumed Innocent, June-October 2000 (another example exhibited).
New York, Gladstone Gallery, American Standard: (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, June-August 2002.
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett, July-October 2003 (another example exhibited).
Denver Art Museum, RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, October 2006-July 2007 (another example exhibited).
Annandale-on-Hudson, Hessel Museum of Art, Keith Edmier: 1991-2007, October 2007-February 2008 (another example exhibited).
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Keith Edmier, March-May 2013 (another example exhibited).
Denver Art Museum, Material World, May 2013-January 2015 (another example exhibited)
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