
Two works: (i) Jackie Morningstar; (ii) Sorry Charlie
Two boldly graphic works rendered in Gokita's signature limited palette of blacks, whites, and grays, in which gouache is applied to canvas with a silky, airbrush-like smoothness. Ambiguous, masklike figures emerge from flat, abstracted backgrounds, their identities simultaneously suggested and withheld through the artist's reductive, graphic-novel-inflected approach. The titles lend each composition a sense of enigmatic narrative, evoking half-remembered pop culture archetypes that hover between glamour and unease.
- Medium
- gouache on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 16, 2014
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