Lot 40
Jason Middlebrook
THE GREAT FLOOD/ PLANE CRASH
2004
pencil, ink and acrylic on paper
$3,300-$3,700
22 x 30"
courtesy of Sara Meltzer Gallery

Along with his longstanding interest in geology and biology, Jason Middlebrook also has an interest in envisioning the ruins of what are today’s most recognizable and established edifices. In 2002 Middlebrook had a show at Sara Meltzer Gallery in New York which consisted of drawings of building fragments and sculptures of iconic architecture, such as the Getty Center and Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao, reduced to rubble and ruins. Therefore the subject matter of “Great Flood/Plane Crash” may come as little surprise to those familiar with Middlebrook’s larger body of work. He lives and works in New York, and his work has been seen in exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and Whitney Museum in New York, as well as in public commissions in London, New York, and Santa Monica.