
Hollywood Dahlia
2019
Hollywood Dahlia presents a tightly composed 44 by 44 inch field of stainless steel, aluminum, glass, ink, and paint, its square format and high-finish surfaces immediately signaling the intersection of industrial fabrication and deliberate aesthetic seduction. Kathryn Andrews works in a space where desire, spectacle, and material production overlap, and this piece embodies that preoccupation with characteristic precision. The title invokes Hollywood mythology and the darker undercurrents of Los Angeles glamour, layering cultural resonance onto what is, at the level of craft, an immaculate object. The result is a work that performs its own allure while simultaneously interrogating how allure is manufactured in the first place. Andrews occupies a significant position within contemporary American art, drawing equally on the legacies of pop art and minimalism to examine how image producers, whether film studios, corporations, or political campaigns, use visual language to engineer consent and longing. Her institutional footprint reflects this critical standing: the MCA Chicago mounted a solo exhibition of her work in 2015 that subsequently traveled to the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and further solo presentations have been held at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Acquiring Hollywood Dahlia through the MCA Chicago Benefit Auction connects a collector directly to the institution that has championed her practice, adding meaningful provenance to a work that already carries considerable art historical weight. The piece is signed, and its shallow depth of two inches allows for flexible installation across a range of interior contexts.
- Medium
- Stainless steel, aluminum, glass, ink, and paint
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · MCA Chicago Benefit Auction
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