Lehmann Maupin Presents: Ocean Chunks by Ashley Bickerton

Ashley Bickerton: Ocean Chunks

Lehmann Maupin presents three new Augmented Reality artworks by the critically-acclaimed artist Ashley Bickerton. Working as an artist from the ‘80s to the present day, Bickerton is known for using varied media to explore materiality, culture, consumerism, and the relationship between humans and the natural environment. These three Augmented Reality artworks can be experienced anywhere in the world using the links found here—no app required. They were also designed to be experienced at locations throughout Chelsea, New York, including the High Line, Little Island, and outside Lehmann Maupin gallery.

Over the last twenty-five years, Ashley Bickerton has exhibited internationally and is featured in many museum collections, including the following:

The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Ellipse Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

In 1986, Ashley Bickerton was included in a four-person show at the Sonnabend Gallery that included Jeff Koons, Peter Halley and Meyer Vaisman. In 2004, The New Museum exhibited "East Village USA," a show that featured "Neo-Geo" artists including Bickerton. In 2009, he was included in "Pop Life: Art in a Material World," at the Tate Modern in London. The following year, he was exhibited in "Collecting Biennials" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which acted as a counterpoint to the 2010 Biennial and paid homage to the previous 80 years of Whitney Biennials. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, California, Singapore, and London.

Drawings will run from 6:30 PM EST March 29th until 6 PM EST March 30th in order to allow for international collector participation.

Any unsold works may be personally kept by the artist.