Barnaby Furnas
Barnaby Furnas’s Effigy (don't you love me anymore?) is an interpretative portrait of the contemporary art collector Michael Ovitz. In response to a bitter professional fall-out, the artist rendered Ovitz with a pig’s snout in a pointed attack on his character. Whereas effigies typically ridicule and express contempt for their subjects in a public setting, Furnas’s Effigy makes itself known through the circulation of a printed edition. Furnas and the Neiman team utilized an untraditional tool - the hypodermic needle - to deliver delicate acid washes and spite bite solutions to the surface of the copper plate.
Furnas (b. 1973) graduated from Columbia University in 2000 with a MFA in Visual Arts. His solo exhibitions include Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Modern Art Inc., London, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, the Deste Foundation, Athens, The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai China, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, London.
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Effigy (don’t you love me anymore?), 2007
Etching with laser engraving
Sheet: 26 ¾ x 20 ½ inches
Image: 15 ½ x 12 ½ inches
Paper: Fabiano Tiepolo
$4,500