Gala 2025 Auction Lot 11: James Siena

James Siena
Born Oceanside, CA 1957
Reseda I,2023
2 color lithograph on Magnani Pescia
paper, 15⅜ × 13⅛ inches | Edition PP 10/10

Printer: Phil Sanders and Lindsey Sigmon | Publisher: Print Club of New York

Framing courtesy of Frugal Framer

Value: $1,700

Courtesy of Phil Sanders

James Siena is a New York based artist known for his complex, linear abstractions. His artwork is driven by self-imposed predetermined sets of rules, or “visual algorithms,” which find their end-result in intensely concentrated and vibrantly colored freehand geometric patterns. Siena works across a diverse range of media, including lithography, etching, woodcut, engraving, drawing, and painting. Siena received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University and teaches at New York’s School of Visual Arts in the Master of Fine Arts department. In 2021, Siena was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Dieu Donné, New York; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; among others. His work is innumerous public collections including the British Museum; Hammer Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.