"STUDY FOR SECOND GENERATION" (APPLIANCE SPIRIT #2) by Dennis Oppenheim

At SOMA Gallery in the mid-90's Patti and Coop Cooprider purchased "STUDY FOR SECOND GENERATION" (APPLIANCE SPIRIT #2) along with "BLACK DOG IN A CAGE". That began a long-term friendship with Scott White, a gallerist elite.

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Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the nature of art, the making of art and the definition of art: a meta-art which arose when strategies of the Minimalists were expanded to focus on site and context. As well as an aesthetic agenda, the work progressed from perceptions of the physical properties of the gallery to the social and political context, largely taking the form of permanent public sculpture in the last two decades of a highly prolific career, whose diversity could exasperate his critics.

Auction Prices shown are for similar in size 2014 and 2017 respectively. Sales in Brussels Belgium and Paris, France.

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