{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22344,"auction_id":25,"set_id":44,"lot_number":"85","artist":"Keb Cerda (b. 1991) ","title":"Untitled","starting_price":180000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2015 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"48” x 36” (122 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Contemporary artist Keb Cerda has been known to synthesize meaning by combining pop-culture imagery and iconography with anthropological and academic records of native, rural and indigenous people. By portraying each contrasting element outside their traditional space and medium, Cerda effectively transforms each work’s accepted meaning and shows us that the line between fact and fiction is often blurred.
In this piece, Cerda portrays two local women amidst a sea of seemingly monochromatic and earth-tone colors. Though both women are rendered in a relatively traditional manner, Cerda manages to insert contemporary elements into the overtly orthdox treatment. The woman on the left is accompanied by a comically oversized speech bubble with a loading logo, while the woman on the right is garbed in an inky black mass that barely compares to her companion’s more detailed baro’t saya. This synthesis of disparate elements explores the process of waiting and lingering as a process that affects both the mind, as evidenced by the familiar loading wheel, and the body, through the rightmost woman’s seemingly incomplete attire.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Keb Cerda (b. 1991) Untitled signed and dated 2015 (lower right) oil on canvas 48” x 36” (122 cm x 91 cm)