Lot 4. John Baldessari / Jamie Vasta
Value: $9,850 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

John Baldessari attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis and Chouinard, and U.C. Berkeley. He has taught at Cal Arts and University of California, Los Angeles. Baldessari’s art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions and over 750 group exhibitions. His projects include artist books, videos, films, billboards and public works. His awards include the Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, the Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts in California, the Oscar Kokoschka Prize, and the Spectrum-International Award for Photography. Exhibitions include; Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht in Maastricht, Netherlands; Marian Goodman Gallery, NY; Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels; Museum Haus Esters in Germany, Fondazione Prada in Milan, and the Tate Modern in London in 2009.

Jamie Vasta, from Rochester, New York, attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, before earning her B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston / Tufts University. Shortly thereafter, Vasta earned her M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Most recently, her paintings were seen in “The Other Mainstream II,” Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ. Her work is represented at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and has been seen at dc Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; The Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA; and Playspace, San Francisco, CA.