Sotheby's in New York will be conducting its first auction of the season with the Contemporary Art midseason sale on Thursday, featuring works by such noted artists as the legendary Andy Warhol, Brooklyn based Jose Parla, and Martin Kippenberger, whose brief life and career the New York Times once labeled as a, "bold, foot-to-the-floor episode of driving under the influence."
"The character of the midseason sales has changed dramatically and are no longer only categorized by a price-band point of view," explains Jonathan Greenberg, Vice President of the Fine Arts department at Sotheby's, where he has the responsibility for sales of Impressionist & Modern, and Contemporary Art. "It has become a more energized type of market simply because the contemporary art market itself has become more excited," he says.
One of the artist whose work will be on hand is Jose Parla, a 36-year-old, Miami born artist whose has had the pleasure of pursuing his craft full-time since 1995, and has had solo exhibitions in countries, states and cities across the world, from Tokyo to California.
Mr. Parla, who describes his style of work as that of, "a painter that uses calligraphy as a form of drawing in the paintings," has a 3-part, acrylic on wood piece entitled "Ease and Faz Story" that will be on sale at Sotheby's on September 24th. The painting's title is derived from nicknames once given to the artist and his brother while they were kids, and it is estimated to sell between $25,000/$35,000.
"It's mostly black background with layering of handwriting," Parla explained from his New York City studio on a warm, Sunday afternoon. "The words are from my personal diaries and they symbolize those times of growing up in the Latin/Caribbean/and Southern cultural mix of Miami with my brother in the 1980's. The diary is privatized by layering, so you can't distinguish the language."
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