ARI SALKA (B. 1993) The Figure and Its Echos: Future and Past Selves, 2016-24

ARI SALKA (B. 1993) The Figure and Its Echos: Future and Past Selves, 2016-24 signed, titled and dated (on the reverse) acrylic, raw pigment, enamel, ink and latex on canvas 30 x 24 in. 76.2 x 61 cm. Footnotes: Provenance Courtesy of the artist Artist statement: Ari Salka (b. 1993 in Seattle, WA) is a LA-based artist, who primarily works through painting and drawing and writing. Salka holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016) and MFA in Painting from UCLA (2019). Salka studied at the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and received the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship in Norfolk, CT (2015). In Ari Salka: On Bodies (Be)held Trans Rights are Under Siege; This Artist Resists by Julie Schulte for Artillery Magazine in September 2020, Schulte states 'Salka's paintings resist; not only by showing us non-binary bodies, but hands prepared to reach out and lead us beyond the present political limitations, into a realm where these bodies are not withheld from view, not merely visible, but beheld and, most importantly, in their dynamic, breathing, singing, multitudinous forms—held. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing