2020 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE | GIFTS FOR THE ART LOVER

2020 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE | GIFTS FOR THE ART LOVER

Oct 9th 2020

Nan Goldin + Supreme Skateboard Deck
$550.00

Supreme’s 2018 collaboration with Nan Goldin included clothing, hats, and skateboards featuring images from Goldin’s photographic exploration of gender in the 1990s. “Misty & Jim” features a cropped image of Goldin’s “Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC” of 1991. Supreme is an American skate brand whose often limited release collaborations with everyone from Nike to Murakami have earned it a following that includes enthusiasts of streetwear and art alike.

Special Edition Clemente, 1999. Signed by Artist
$525.00

This special edition was published on the occasion of Francesco Clemente's 1999 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Wrapped in hand-dyed and hand-emroidered Indian cotten, the flower designs front and back were created by Clemente. Signed by the artist at a preview of the exhibit.

KAWS BFF
$1,450.00

American artist Brian Donnelly, known as KAWS, began his career adding his graffiti to fashion advertising on NYC bus shelters and phone booths in the 1990s. He has gone on to create a large body of work including paintings and sculpture and collaborations with toy and apparel firms. Introduced in 2016, BFF has crossed-out eyes, gloved hands, and oversized ears like KAWS’s signature “Companion” figures. But BFF’s furry exterior—reminiscent of the woolly texture of Sesame Street’s Elmo—was unprecedented for the street artist, whose sculptures typically had a smooth finish. This version was released through MoMA in 2019.

Visionaire 64 Art | John Baldessari Blue Edition
$5,000.00

For 64 ART, Visionaire collaborates with legendary conceptual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. The issue is divided into 3 editions of only 500 each: Red, Green, and Blue. Each edition contains 10 loose 12X18 inch black & white portraits with embossed color interventions by John Baldessari. Sold separately in a limited quantity of 500 numbered copies, this is number 369. The case converts into a horizontal or vertical display using the built-in foldout stand. The Blue edition features Lupita Nyong’o, Ai Weiwei, Kate Upton, Dustin Hoffman, Psy, Kirsten Dunst, Kate & Laura Mulleavy with Catherine Opie, Cameron Diaz, Michael Stipe and KAWS. 64 ART exploits the current ease of digital and emailable self-portraits with the time-honored craftsmanship of printmaking. Created in partnership with Samsung.

James Bearden Table Top Sculpture
$1,750.00

Contemporary sculptor James Bearden, following in the tradition of Paul Evans, creates brutalist works by cutting, hammering, melting and welding metals. His "controlled chaos" in such pieces has relied upon the natural weathering and corroding processes for graphic character and texture.

Kusama Pumpkin Red
$575.00

Modeled after one of Yayoi Kusama’s most famous artworks, these lacquer-painted resin pumpkins are tchotchkes elevated to art.

Limited Edition Keith Haring Doubles Plate
$575.00

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and grafifiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Designed after Haring’s painting, “Doubles,” these plates were produced by Swid Powell for Special Editions Limited in 1992. Planned for an edition of 3,000 numbered examples, it is believed that no more than 500 examples were actually produced. This plate is marked 276/3000.

Rex Ray Collage 2397
$3,750.00

Rex Ray [1956 – 2015] was an American artist best known for his innovative pop aesthetic in fine and commercial art—on canvases, wood panels, album covers, paper, book jackets, murals, and rock and roll posters. This collage from 2006 is equal part Eames and Jetson.

Robert Mapplethorpe "Orchid, 1987" Plate
$775.00

Robert Mapplethorpe [1946-1989] was a controversial photographer known for his large-scale, stylized black and white images. Whether of celebrities, nudes, self-portraits, BDSM scenes or flowers, he treated all his subjects in the same sensitive but blunt manner. In 1988 he designed 3 plates featuring his striking flower images, including "Orchid, 1987" for Swid Powell.

“Growing Handplants” Ryan McGinness Skateboard Deck
$595.00

Ryan McGinness (born 1972) is an American artist, living and working in Manhattan, New York. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments. This signed, limited edition skateboard deck purchased from the MoMA Store is a great way to collect his work affordably.