Carmen Argote
Curated by Lucas Reiner
Carmen Argote
Red on Red
2008
pastel on paper
54.5" x 42.5" x 2" framed
Courtesy of the artist
Silent Lot #08
Retail value: $3000
Starting bid: $1,000
Artist's Biography
Carmen Argote is a working artist living in Downtown Los Angeles. She received her M.F.A. from UCLA in 2007. Her artwork focuses on systems of organization, from architecture to Pac-man, relating these systems back to ourselves in order to reflect upon our current condition and the spaces that house us. Argote's work includes ceramics, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and painting. She currently teaches ceramics as a lecture at CSU Los Angeles.
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Curator's Biography
Lucas Reiner is an artist who lives and work in Los Angeles. His work has been seen locally over the years at Thomas Solomon's Garage, Domestic Setting, Bennett Roberts Fine Art, Carl Berg, and LA Louver. He most recently exhibited his work in New York at Dinter Fine Art, and in Germany and Italy at Galerie Biedermann and Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea respectively. Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008, Paintings, Drawings, Filmstills was recently published By Prestel and is available at Art Catalogues at Moca, Pacific Design Center.