Pazo Fine Art is pleased to congratulate E.E. Ikeler on the acquisition of Untitled (Flower) and Untitled (Snowflake) by Microsoft Corporation.
The Microsoft Art Collection started in 1987, and it now includes around 5000 works of art displayed in more than 180 buildings globally. The collection serves only for the enjoyment of the employees, guests, and customers. Its main focus is contemporary art and it includes paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, ceramics, glass, multimedia works, prints, collages, drawings, fiber art, metalwork, mixed media, and associated archival materials. The collection includes pieces by Chuck Close, Takashi Murakami and Cindy Sherman, among others.
Untitled (Flower) and Untitled (Snowflake) were included in the exhibition Emblemata at Pazo Fine Art in December last year.
E.E. Ikeler’s paintings show a pathway to knowledge that appeals to the senses. Pieced together with various materials and abstracted in their structure, the work's initial reading is welcoming and colorful. Initially organized by a grid, the images are twisted with patterns presenting a secondary piece of information revealed through language. The scripted messages are intended to fill in the void of communication that abstract painting leaves behind. The artist has called them “fake protest signs” while at the same time recognizing the shortcomings of an actionable protest. The work brings cohesion to daily conundrums, fragmenting experience and perspective through process.
E.E. Ikeler (b.1986) received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2008 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2016. She’s had solo exhibitions at Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington D.C.), Jeff Bailey Gallery (Hudson, NY), Mulherin (Toronto, Canada), and Kent Place (Summit, NJ). She has also exhibited at EFA Project Space and Abrons Art Center (NYC, New York) and Yve Yang Gallery in Boston, MA. She received a Leroy Neiman Foundation Summer Fellowship at Ox-bow School of Art in 2016; a Yale FLAGS Award, a Helen Watson Winternitz Award and a Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Research Fellowship (all Yale University, 2015). She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
