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Sun/Screen is a new project by award-winning New York based artist Penelope Umbrico, which continues her exploration of the ever-increasing production and consumption of photographic images online. Using an iPhone, she re-photographed a range of found images of the sun from her computer screen, resulting in a hypnotic sequence of ‘moiré’ patterns – a consequence of different digital images de-generating as they merge with one another.

The shimmering hazy illusion of heat and light lends a material quality to the screen itself and conversely is more suggestive of natural sunlight than the original images, inviting questions about the nature of reproductions and verisimilitude.

Alongside Sun/Screen, we are also showing Never-ending Sunset (Second Life), 2011 in the gallery lift. Continuing her meditation on simulated light, the piece features an endless sunset setting over an artificial sea derived from the virtual world Second Life. Programmed to defy the laws of time and nature, this piece delivers a fantasy of what a perfect sunset might be.

Penelope Umbrico (b. 1957, Philadelphia, USA) is a photo-based artist whose work explores the ever-increasing production and consumption of photographs on the web. Umbrico has exhibited internationally and her work is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a recent Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Aperture published her monograph, Penelope Umbrico (photographs), 2011 and forthcoming monographs include Range, 2014, Aperture; and Out of Order, 2014, RVB Paris.

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    • PENELOPE UMBRICO (B. 1957) - Untitled, 1998-99
      Oct. 14, 2020

      PENELOPE UMBRICO (B. 1957) - Untitled, 1998-99

      Est: $5,000 - $7,000

      PENELOPE UMBRICO (B. 1957) Untitled, 1998-99 nine chromogenic prints signed, dated and inscribed in pencil (verso); stamped with exhibition information (frame backing board) each image/sheet: 4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm.) overall: 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm.) ",

      Christie's
    • PENELOPE UMBRICO (B. 1957) Moving Mountains (1850-2012), 2012 each print inscribed sequentially '1-16' in pencil (frame backing board); print #16 signed, titled, dated and numbered in ink on affixed label (frame backing board); publication signed by
      Oct. 02, 2019

      PENELOPE UMBRICO (B. 1957) Moving Mountains (1850-2012), 2012 each print inscribed sequentially '1-16' in pencil (frame backing board); print #16 signed, titled, dated and numbered in ink on affixed label (frame backing board); publication signed by

      Est: $6,000 - $8,000

      PENELOPE UMBRICO (B. 1957) Moving Mountains (1850-2012), 2012 sixteen chromogenic prints, together with Aperture Remix publication of Moving Mountains (1850-2012) in cloth clamshell each print inscribed sequentially '1-16' in pencil (frame backing board); print #16 signed, titled, dated and numbered in ink on affixed label (frame backing board); publication signed by artist in ink (title page); numbered '3' of five (colophon) each image: 8 x 8 in. (20.3 x 20.3 cm.) This work is number three from an edition of five plus three artist's proofs.

      Christie's
    • PENELOPE UMBRICO
      Dec. 04, 2018

      PENELOPE UMBRICO

      Est: CHF500 - CHF800

      PENELOPE UMBRICO (1980) FC11, 1998. Collage of 16 original photographs. Gelatin silver prints on Agfa paper. Each 10 x 15 cm; total size 40 x 60 cm. Verso signed "P. Umrico", dated and titled. Provenance: - Acquired directly from the artist. - Swiss private collection. --------------- PENELOPE UMBRICO (1980) FC11, 1998. Collage aus 16 Original-Photographien. Silbergelatine-Abzüge auf Agfa-Papier. Je 10 x 15 cm; Gesamtgrösse 40 x 60 cm. Verso signiert "P. Umrico", datiert und betitelt. Provenienz: - Direkt bei der Künstlerin erworben. - Schweizer Privatbesitz.

      Koller Auctions
    • PENELOPE UMBRICO (1957- ) From Catalogs (13).
      Feb. 14, 2017

      PENELOPE UMBRICO (1957- ) From Catalogs (13).

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      PENELOPE UMBRICO (1957- ) From Catalogs (13). Chromogenic prints (12), the images each measuring 4x6 inches (10.1x15.2 cm.), mounted in a grid, overall 16x18 inches (40.6x45.7 cm.), the mount slightly larger, with the notation "J Saul 482," in pencil, on verso. 1998

      Swann Auction Galleries
    • PENELOPE UMBRICO, (AMERICAN, B. 1980), UNTITLED (OBJECT COLLECTION #2)
      Sep. 10, 2013

      PENELOPE UMBRICO, (AMERICAN, B. 1980), UNTITLED (OBJECT COLLECTION #2)

      Est: $500 - $800

      PENELOPE UMBRICO (american, b. 1980)/span UNTITLED (OBJECT COLLECTION #2) 30 collaged 4 x 6 in. c-prints. overall: 23 1/2 x 29 in. (59.7 x 73.7cm) provenance: /spanJulie Saul Gallery, New York, New York. The Avon Collection, New York, New York. exhibited:/span International Center of Photography, New York, "Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection," September 12-November 16, 1997.

      Freeman's | Hindman
    • Penelope Umbrico (American, 20th Century) Untitled, 1993; C-Print under Plexiglass; Signed and dated; 23 5/8" x 19 3/8" (sheet)
      May. 19, 2007

      Penelope Umbrico (American, 20th Century) Untitled, 1993; C-Print under Plexiglass; Signed and dated; 23 5/8" x 19 3/8" (sheet)

      Est: $600 - $800

      Penelope Umbrico (American, 20th Century) Untitled, 1993; C-Print under Plexiglass; Signed and dated; 23 5/8" x 19 3/8" (sheet)

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
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