Details:
① Artwork:
Untitled (shovel)
This drawing is made of dense, built-up layers of graphite on paper. The gestural pencil marks are meticulously rendered, and slowly build a thick velvet-like surface that draws attention to the object's fleeting ephemeral apogee. This composition is part of a series by the artist, skin. Each work is encased in a welded aluminum frame, part of the work itself. The frame has a polished finish, weight and durability similar to that of a pristine heavy-duty crescent wrench.
Drawing from his work in advertising, Givis creates direct work that focuses on physical form and personal narrative—while endeavoring to capture a kind of subjective beauty and mortality. Walking through hardware stores, Givis chooses tools and hardware for subjects. The artist hunts for proportions, lines, weight, machining and shape that suit his objective. Givis renders each of his objects with a religious attention to detail, a standard historically associated with the marketing of automobiles and beauty products. As with his advertising work, the artist's aim is to create an image that evokes the desire of consumption. The resulting compositions are seductive, and explore both sexuality and art history.
Specs:
③ Artist:
Edward Givis’ work explores sexuality and art history, as well as his upbringing in rural Upstate New York. For subjects, the artist chooses tools from hardware stores that suit his ideal proportions and renders these objects with a religious attention to detail usually associated with marketing. Drawing from his work in advertising, Givis creates direct works that focus on physical form and personal narrative—while simultaneously capturing a kind of subjective beauty and mortality.
BIO:
Edward Givis was born in 1988 in Upstate New York.
A solo exhibition of Givis’ work, Skin, took place at One Trick Pony in Los Angeles, California.
Group exhibitions that have shown Givis’s work include: Fragments are the only forms I trust, curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte at White Columns Online; We Go Fast, curated by Ryan Travis Christian at Left Field Gallery in Los Osos, California; We Are The Ones at Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon in Copenhagen, Denmark; and Ghosts of Electricity at Smoke The Moon in Los Angeles, California.
In 2021, Givis was selected for the White Columns Curated Artist Registry.
Givis lives and works in Southern California.
This meticulously rendered drawing is made of dense, built-up layers of graphite on paper. The artist depicts this shovel with a religious attention to detail, a standard historically associated with marketing.More
- Framed: 32.2 x 24.8 x 1.5 in.
- Note: for any works placed 10/1-10/11, this work will ship on 10/11.
