In its September issue, Art+Auction compiled a list of the 25 most collectible midcareer artists working today. This month, ARTINFO will publish one installment from the feature per day. Click here to read Art+Auction editor-in-chief Eric Bryant’s introduction to the list. To see all the installments published so far, click here.Glenn Kaino | b. 1972 | United StatesIn 2009 the lifelong California resident took an 18-month sabbatical from his studio work in order to study with a magician. He emerged from the experience, according to Honor Fraser Gallery representative Corrina Peipon, with an understanding of “art as something within which he could realize his interest in philosophy, science, and cultural theory.” Since then, Kaino’s practice—built within a conceptual framework that is strongly rooted in his political ideas—has grown in ambition, scale, and complexity. “He is promiscuous in his intellectual interests, and for him art provides a space within which he can really work out his thinking,” says Peipon. Works vary widely in size, material, and content, and prices can range anywhere between $10,000 and $500,000. Kaino’s collectors are loyal, which means that few works hit the auction block; one work, a shark- and salmon-skin sculpture, Graft (Salmon), 2006, sold for $28,125 (est. $10–15,000) at Sotheby’s New York in 2013. Recent pieces include Don’t Bring a Gameboy to a Gunfight, 2014, a pile of brightly hued “rocks” 3-D-printed from rocks found at protest sites around the world, and A Shout Within a Storm, 2014, constructed of 100 cast-metal arrows all pointing to the same spot and forming a cone in space. Kaino has received commissions from lacma, Performa, and Art Basel Miami Beach. He has had solo shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. He is currently represented by Honor Fraser in Los Angeles and Kavi Gupta in Chicago. A solo presentation of Kaino’s work opens at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on January 29, 2016.
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