FÍA BENITEZ (20th/21st Century) Rubbing 5, 2021

FÍA BENITEZ (20th/21st Century) Rubbing 5, 2021 signed, titled and dated (on the reverse) graphite on paper 24 x 18 in. 61 x 45.7 cm. Footnotes: Provenance Courtesy of the artist Exhibited Newhall, CA, Newhall Crossings, Points of Interest, 12-15 June 2021 Literature Wen-You Cai, ed., Nascent, Noisy, Nutritional, and Nonsensical, 4N Magazine, Special Special: New York, 2024, issue 1, pp. 74-77 Johanna Stone and Gabby Sones, eds., The Big One, Los Angeles, 2024, issue 1, p. 35 Sarah Sophia Yanni and Christine Imperial, eds., water / relic / spices, Los Angeles: Persistence & Rupture, 2021, pp. 19-25a Artist statement: Fía Benitez is an artist living in Los Angeles. Their body of work, Points of Interest, comprises graphite drawings of historical documents: local oil field photographs and company stock certificates, as well as bisque-fired vessels referencing orange juice advertisements, and rubbings of the Walk of Western Stars along Old Town Newhall's Main Street. Probing relationships between extractivism, culture industries, and gentrification, the exhibition temporarily occupied an unused retail space in the luxury apartment building Newhall Crossings. Benitez holds degrees from Vassar College and CalArts. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing