• Dan Colen, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, gallery announcement card recto. The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, 2013. Colour reproduction of a painting: a dense arc of scattered pigment — white, lavender, blue, gold, and pink — curves across the upper portion of a deep black ground, suggesting a galaxy, firework burst, or spray of glitter. A dark reddish-brown mass occupies the lower centre, partially obscured by the arc. The image bleeds to the edges of the printed rectangle. Caption below in small sans-serif typ
  • Dan Colen, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, gallery announcement card verso. The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, 2013. Cream card. Centred text in serif type. Header in large roman: 'Join Our Emailing List'. Body text: 'We want you to be apart of everything that is happening here at The Greenberg Gallery! If you are interested in becoming apart of our emailing list, please email or call us with your contact information. Sincerely, The Greenberg Gallery Team'. Horizontal rule below. Footer in spaced caps: 'THE GREEN
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Dan Colen — The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Greenberg Gallery, 2013

Dan Colen — The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Greenberg Gallery, 2013

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The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, c. 2013
Artist / gallery announcement card
Approx. 15 × 10 cm
Offset-printed card; colour reproduction to recto, gallery mailing-list text to verso
Work illustrated: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, 2013, oil and pigment on panel, 39½ × 60 in.

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with gallery ephemera.

Small-format gallery card reproducing Dan Colen’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a 2013 painting from the period in which the artist moved from the abject materials and downtown mythology of his earlier work toward more refined, process-based image-making. The work draws on the visual residue of Disney’s Fantasia, converting a mass-cultural image into a dark, particulate field of oil, pigment, and atmosphere.

The reverse is almost as useful as the image: a direct request to join The Greenberg Gallery’s email list. As an object, the card sits at the edge of two systems — the printed gallery announcement and the emerging digital mailing list. Physical card, digital future.

A compact survivor from the early-2010s contemporary art market, when Colen’s work moved between downtown legend, blue-chip circulation, and process-based abstraction.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships flat in protective archival packaging.

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