Lot 198: Glazed Gas Gangs Gas and Gimp Gump

Baker Overstreet (b.1981) Glazed Gas Gangs Gas and Gimp Gump signed, titled and dated 'baker overstreet 2006-2007 glazed gas gangs gas and gimp gump’ (on the overlap) acrylic on canvas 47 7/8 x 59 3/4 in. (121.6 x 151.8 cm) Executed in 2006-2007.

New York, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, Baker Overstreet: New Paintings, February-March 2007. London, Saatchi Gallery, Abstract America: New Paintings and Sculpture, May 2009-January 2010, pp. 280-281 (illustrated).

Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner

Influenced by tribal and folk art, Baker Overstreet envisions a primitive abstraction reflective of the contemporary zeitgeist. In totemic compositions of bold color and stylized patterning, Overstreet develops his own painterly lexicon comprised of personal symbolism and gesture. Through their atavistic formalism, Overstreet’s symmetrical arrangements create deceptive pictorial fields: rough scrawled lines and blocks of vibrant hue evoke fleeting suggestions of figurative or architectural form, creating moments of recognition only to be devoured by the urgency of the paintings’ surfaces.