PRESS RELEASE | NEW YORK | 27 February 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHRISTIE'S PARTNERSHIP WITH ART GROUP, Y&S

JACK GREER - DANIEL HOROWITZ - LINDSAY KEYS - COLIN KILIAN - MAT LARKIN, DYLAN LYNCH - HALEY MELLIN - ADAM PAYNE - SAMUEL STABLER - JULIAN WELLISZ

DANIEL HOROWITZ Drawing of the Day 129, 2011-2012 Mixed-media on found ephemera 8.5 x 11 in (22 x 28 cm)

LINDSAY KEYS Untitled, 2010 Digital color print 24 x 36 in (61 x 91.4 cm)

24 Works of Art by 10 Young Artists

New York - Christie's is pleased to partner with Y&S in the shared goal of providing a venue for emerging artists not yet represented by galleries to share their work with young collectors. Founded and driven by a group of art enthusiasts, Y&S strives to give young artists a platform on which an ever-broadening audience can celebrate the works of their own generation. Y&S creates a bridge between young artists and a young audience, through group shows, lectures, studio visits and publications. 24 innovative works by the 10 artists Y&S will be exhibiting and available for silent auction or available online https://www.501auctions.com/yands. All proceeds will go directly to the artists. Christies is excited to facilitate the dialogue between this community of emerging artists and young collectors, eager to continue developing their eye.

Jack Greer

Born 1987 in Los Angeles

Jack Greer is a multimedia artist whose body of work spans from appropriation and meticulous illustration to photobased scultpure and process painting. The work thrives on the grotesque visual language of his urban environment. Focusing on downtrotten imagery, Greer abstains from the traditional ideals of beauty and perfection. His wide range of styles, techniques and technologies manifests itself conceptually as well, as Greer's subject matter tends to involve a diversely depicted repetition of pre-existing documentation. He works in Red Hook, Brooklyn with The Still House Group.

Spray Brush, 2013 ink on canvas 40 x 34 in (101.6 x 86.4 cm)

Daniel Horowitz

Born in New York - Lives and works in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn

Daniel Horowitz is an artist whose current work focuses primarily on painting and mixed media. He exhibited a series of 365 drawings - one drawing a day for a year - in its entirety at the Invisible Dog Art Center in New York in March, 2012. The vocabulary of this long-term diary-like project resulted in a whimsical and satirical bestiary cut from old accounting books and ephemera, brought to life with ink, paint, scissors and collage. Horowitz is the winner of the Scope Miami 2011 Artists Wanted competition in the painting. He has also been recognized and awarded for his illustration work by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration 30 and 31, 3x3 Magazine, and by Creative Quarterly: Journal for Art and Design.

Drawing of the Day#194, 2011-2012 mixed-media on found ephemera 8 x 10 in (20 x 25 cm)

Lindsay Keys

Born in Salem, New York - Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Lindsay Keys began her pursuit of art in high school while building a drawing and painting portfolio to apply to college. She spent her freshman year at Alfred Universitys School of Art and Design before transferring to Wesleyan University where she majored in studio art with a concentration in photography. Lindseys work has been published in Photo District News, Photographers Forum and The New York Times. Now living in Brooklyn, New York, Lindsay works as a studio assistant while pursuing her own projects independently.
Untitled, 2011 Digital color print 24 x 36 in. (60.9 x 91.4 cm.)

Colin Kilian

Born in Washington, DC December 20, 1980 - Lives and works in New York

Colin Kilian is a visual artist who graduated from Pratt Institute in 2003 with a focus on drawing and abstract sculpture. His background involves visual and technical design and he uses both in his creative process. His core focus is to interact with phenomena from deeper areas of consciousness and develop new aesthetic concepts and compositional forms.

Push, 2012 oil on canvas 24 x 36 in (61 x 91.4 cm)

Mat Larkin

Lives and works in New York

Before he could spell "art," Mat Larkin was making things. He was taking locks apart, fixing his grandmother's suitcase, building tables. As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, Mat discovered that sculpture wasn't always made of rock, that it could allow him to articulate the beauty of physical form and process. As a direct result of his utilitarian relationship with tools and the things they work on, Mat fervently avoids the arbitrary in his artworks. The form of the material determines the mode of the material. He intends to elicit the unique personality of each material.
Matches 4, 2013 mixed media 24 x 24 in (61 x 61 cm)

Dylan Lynch

Born 1987 in Los Angeles

Dylan Lynch is a sculptor working primarily with prefabricated object assemblage. Often exploring the phenomenon of balance, he reveals the inner commonality amongst overlooked materials. Mostly store bought, his mediums are chosen intuitively, based on immediate attraction. Ignoring their function and the context of their everyday use, he reduces them to abstract forms. With an aesthetic referential to Finish Fetish artists, Lynch uses restraint in allowing the inherent ergonomics of these objects to remain original and respected. He works in Red Hook, Brooklyn with The Still House Group.

Obey Your Tunes, 2012 basketball and can 8.5 x 8.5 x 13 in (21.6 x 21.6 x 33 cm)

Haley Mellin

Born San Anselmo, California, 1983. Lives and works in New York.

Haley Mellin graduated from NYU in 2012. Her work engages contemporary painting and she participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Studio Program. Recent exhibitions include Higher Pictures curated by Artie Vierkant on post-digital practices. She looks at what painting is in an increasingly digital era, wherein "data is the new coal."

Untitled, 2013 3D Prints (Nail, Canvas, Screw) Dimensions Variable

Adam Payne Born in Laconia, New Hampshire - Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Adam Payne has channeled his adapting talent into many different mediums. From the canvas to the test tube, to the wood shop, his focus consistently returns to the contradictory nature of the world. By taking familiar ideologies and combining them in his work, an incorporation of comprehension and apprehension emerges challenging the importance of what is held as true.
Piperine organic 36-13, 2013 Mixed media 25.6 x 52.5 x 5 in (65.1 x 133.4 x 12.7 cm)

Samuel Stabler

Born in Atlanta, GA April 9, 1984 - Lives and works in New York

Samuel Stabler graduated with a BFA in Drawing from the University of Georgia in 2007 then continued to get his MFA at St. Martins School of Art and Design in 2010. Over the past five years, he has shown nationally and internationally in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Untitled (Neon Old Master), 2013 Acrylic on paper 22 x 30 in (55.9 x 76.2 cm)

Julian Wellisz

Born in Los Angeles January 25, 1988 - Lives and works in New Orleans

The .TUMBLR project utilizes CMYK color separation screenprinting to capture static moments from the ever-streaming blogosphere. This analogue reposting gives physical form to combinations of images that previously only existed in the digital world. For each .TUMBLR work, I pull images from a single blog, primarily those of teenagers who have taken their images from other digital sources the images in my work have been, and will continue to be, reused, re-blogged, and recycled thousands of times. In diffusing image streams, this work alludes to the loss of power of digital imagery due to its over saturation/exposure; while, the subject matter addresses how infinite digital access has contributed to a loss of innocence for youth and instead the embrace of the grotesque.
I-ian.tumblr, 2013 Silkscreen on canvas 22 x 60 in (55.9 x 152.4 cm)

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