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ANTHONY PEARSON (AMERICAN B. 1969)UNTITLED (POUR ARRANGEMENT) 2008Bronze sculpture with silver nitrate patina, base, pedestal, two framed solarized silver gelatin photographs Height inc. pedestal, base and bronze 144cm (56½in.), dimensions of framed photographs, each 42 x 35.5cm (16.5 x 14in.)Provenance:Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Acquired from the above in 2008Working in his native Los Angeles, Anthony Pearson's contemplative, understated practice traverses several media. He has been the subject of solo shows at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; his work is in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Allowing him to combine various techniques and materials, Pearson's 'arrangements' make for engaging juxtapositions of forms. Several such works share the specific hybrid configuration at hand - a sculpture flanked by two photographs - forming a contemporary garniture of sorts. Pearson calls attention to the materiality of his creation: the unyielding lines of the picture frames throw the uneven, oozing metal sculpture into sharp relief. Like the poured bronze, the solarised photographs toe the line between controlled and arbitrary processes, such as Pearson's carefully incised lines which are subjected to overexposure naturally creating a random pattern and effect