Billy SullivanKiki’s Flowers for Klaus, 2017

pastel on paper

107,3 x 77,5 cm

About the artist

(b. 1946 in New York), lives, works, and teaches in new york. Sullivan is best known for a diaristic practice that straddles the vitality of fleeting moments and the construction of retrieved remembrance. as he was raised in New York City, and attended the School of Visual Arts, sullivan came of age in the social milieus around Andy Warhol, Max’s Kansas City, and Parisian fashion designer Kenzo. he absorbed such influences as Fairfield Porter’s domestic realism and Joan Mitchell’s dynamic pastels. Sullivan’s paintings, drawings, and photographs are saturated with the intimacy of the “muses” in his own life, present and past—friends, lovers, artists, writers, allies and other collaborators, both known and obscure. Noted for their loose, gestural mark-making and unexpected color combinations, his portraits and still lives draw viewers into the atmosphere as participants rather than mere observers.

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