Lot 199: Holy Holy

David Benjamin Sherry (b. 1981) Holy Holy c-print mounted on aluminum 94 1/4 x 72 3/4 in. (239.6 x 185 cm.) Executed in 2011. this work is artist’s proof number one from an edition of two plus three artist’s proofs.

239.6 x 185 cm.

London, Saatchi Gallery, Out of Focus: Photography, September-November 2012, p. 6 (illustrated in color).

Salon 94, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner

Given his dramatic mountainscapes infused with otherworldly light, one might expect David Benjamin Sherry to respond to the question of key influences by naming great American photographers such as Ansel Adams, but instead he cites a roster of painters and installation artists who work with colour and light - among them Robert Irwin, John McCracken, Ann Truitt and Paul Thek, along with artists who 'take flight from nature', like Robert Smithson and Georgia O'Keeffe.