Date to be arranged with buyers, 2 PM, New York, NY
 
Join Jeff Koons for an exclusive studio visit and conversation exploring his studio practice and creative process. 
 
Jeff Koons is one of the most prominent artists working today. He is known for challenging the limitations of fabrication while transforming everyday images and objects into works of art that engage the viewer in a dialogue with the time in which we live and our historical past. For four decades, Koons has created works that explore themes of self-acceptance and transcendence.
 
Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1955. He studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. He received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1976. Koons lives and works in New York City.
 
Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Koons’s work has been shown in galleries, museums, and cultural institutions throughout the world. Koons’s work is in numerous collections, including The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.  His work was the subject of a major exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective (June 27 - October 19, 2014), which then traveled to the Centre Pompidou Paris and the Guggenheim Bilbao. Recent exhibitions include Shine at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence; Jeff Koons: Lost in America at Qatar Museums in Doha; and Jeff Koons: Apollo at the Slaughterhouse, a DESTE Foundation Project Space, in Hydra, Greece.
 
Koons is widely known for his bold paintings and sculptures, including Rabbit, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Puppy, and Balloon Dog. The smooth, mirror-finished surfaces of his iconic stainless steel sculptures reflect and affirm viewers and their environments. A dialogue with the readymade is evident in his complex paintings that often employ bright, saturated color, communicating the artist’s interest in art history, the biological, and acceptance. Koons earned renown for his public works, such as the monumental floral sculptures Puppy and Split-Rocker.
 
Your contribution of $1,000 to the IFPDA Foundation is fully tax deductible to the extent of the law.
Each studio visit is limited to a total of five participants on a first-come basis.
Studio visits are non-refundable however you may transfer your visit to another guest by contacting [email protected].
 
Courtesy of Two Palms.

Images:
1. Courtesy of IFPDA Print Fair. Photo: Richard Lee.
2. Tulips, 1995-2004, Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 80 x 180 x 205 inches. 5 unique versions. Image courtesy Jeff Koons.
3. Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass), 2017, Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass. 39 1/16 x 48 inches. Edition of 20. Image courtesy Two Palms.