Those pencil pieces are amazing!!!
I really enjoy NME's work bought two pieces from him,waiting on the second one. Priced nice too!!
www.flickr.com/photos/69357341@N02/

just add the @n02 not sure why it won't copy and paste?

I'm a new artist on here.

Please check my website or insta, would love you thoughts and opinions.

I'm represented by Lawrence Alkin Gallery in Soho.

www.euanrobertsart.com

Big love.

Euan

A tremendous, younger artist that has never been mentioned here is Cameron Rowland. I am a HUGE fan of his work and have owned one piece for the last three years. His last show at Artist Space in NYC is. one of the best shows I've seen and he's recently been shown at the Whitney Museum(part of the biennial) and the Museum of Modern Art(as part of their permanent collection).  Interesting twist, most of his work lately is not for sale. You sign a rental agreement and make monthly payments for three years or so. The agreement itself is a slightly modified Rent-a-Center agreement.

Here is my piece:


Cameron Rowland
Constituent, 2014
Outlet
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3 plus I AP

Outlets allow the flow of current through cable. When electrical cable is sold as scrap, the outlet is often still connected, but cannot be used and has no value. An electrician cuts the power supply to one outlet, removes the faceplate and reveals the copper core of two electrical wires.


and here are some more examples:



Cameron Rowland
Loot, 2014
Cut copper tube, cardboard box, crate
11 x 18.5 x 13 inches (27.94 x 46.99 x 33.02 cm)
Rental

At some point basic utilities like electricity and water were services controlled by the state, because they relied so heavily on public infrastructure. More and more these flows are valved by private corporations. When abandoned buildings are broken into and stripped of their copper piping, it is sold to scrap yards, where it is cut down. This cut copper was bought from a scrap yard. Copper has a function, its base material has an inherent value.




Cameron Rowland
Disgorgement, 2016
Reparations Purpose Trust, Aetna Shares

Aetna, amongst other insurance companies, issued slave insurance policies, which combined property and life insurance. These policies were taken out by slave masters on the lives of slaves, and provided partial payments for damage to the slave and full payment for the death of the slave. Death or damage inflicted by the master could not be claimed. The profits incurred by these policies are still intact within Aetna.

In 1989 Congressman John Conyers of Michigan first introduced Congressional Bill H.R. 40, which would "Establish the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans to examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies." The bill would convene a research commission, that would, among other responsibilities, make a recommendation as to whether a formal apology for slavery is owed, whether reparations are owed, what form reparations would then take and who would receive them. Conyers has reintroduced the bill to every session of congress since then. This bill acquired 48 cosponsors in 1999-2000. Currently it has no cosponsors.

In 2000 the state of California passed the bill SB 2199, which required all insurance companies conducting business in the state of California to publish documentation of slave insurance policies that they or their parent companies had issued previously. In 2002 a lawyer named Deadria Farmer-Paellmann filed the first corporate reparations class-action lawsuit seeking disgorgement from 17 contemporary financial institutions including Aetna, Inc., which had profited from slavery. Farmer-Paellmann pursued property law claims on the basis that these institutions had been enriched unjustly by slaves who were neither compensated nor agreed to be uncompensated. Farmer-Paellman called for these profits and gains to be disgorged from these institutions to descendants of slaves.

The Reparations Purpose Trust forms a conditionality between the time of deferral and continued corporate growth. The general purpose of this trust is “to acquire and administer shares in Aetna, Inc. and to hold such shares until the effective date of any official action by any branch of the United States government to make financial reparations for slavery, including but not limited to the enactment and subsequent adoption of any recommendations pursuant to H.R. 40 – Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act.” As a purpose trust registered in the state of Delaware this trust can last indefinitely and has no named beneficiaries.

The initial holdings of Reparations Purpose Trust consists of 90 Aetna shares. In the event that federal financial reparations are paid, the trust will terminate and its shares will be liquidated and granted to the federal agency charged with distributions as a corporate addendum to these payments. The grantor of the Reparations Purpose Trust is Artists Space, its trustee is Michael M. Gordon, and its enforcer is Cameron Rowland. The Reparations Purpose Trust gains tax-exemption from its grantor’s nonprofit status.



Cameron Rowland
Pass-Thru, 2014
Acrylic, hardware, 24-hour rotator disc
23 x 20 x 21 inches (58.42 x 50.80 x 53.34 cm)
Rental

In some places, businesses use a pass-thru, to pass cash or goods back and forth; this could be at a bank or a liquor store. The highest standard of pass-thru use bullet proof glass, although this material is far too expensive to be used as a protective measure by those businesses where it might be most effective. Therein plastic is used in place of bullet proof glass. They are either made by a manufacturer or by the shop owner. This Pass-Thru was made by Rowland.

Cameron Rowland
Pass-Thru, 2014
Acrylic, hardware, 24-hour rotator disc, cardboard
23 x 20 x 21 inches (58.42 x 50.80 x 53.34 cm)

In some places, businesses use a pass-thru, to pass cash or goods back and forth; this could be at a bank or a liquor store. The highest standard of pass-thru use bullet proof glass, although this material is far too expensive to be used as a protective measure by those business where it might be most effective. Therein plastic is used in place of bullet proof glass. They are either made by a manufacturer or by the shop owner. A pass-thru is also an open window, when it is cold it may be covered. This Pass-Thru was made by Rowland.



Cameron Rowland

Insurance, 2016

Container lashing bars, Lloyd's Register certificates

102 x 96 x 11.5 or 149 x 18 x 4.5 inches



Lloyd's of London monopolized the marine insurance of the slave trade by the early 18th Century. Lloyd's Register was established in 1760 as the first classification society in order to provide insurance underwriters information on the quality of vessels. The classification of the ship allows for a more accurate assessment of its risk. Lloyd's Register and other classification societies continue to survey and certify shipping vessels and their equipment. Lashing equipment physically secures goods to the deck of the ship, while its certification is established to insure the value of the goods regardless of their potential loss.




Cameron Rowland

New York State Unified Court System, 2016

Oak wood, distributed by Corcraft

165 x 57.5 x 36 inches

Rental at cost



Courtrooms throughout New York State use benches built by prisoners in Green Haven Correctional Facility. The court reproduces itself materially through the labor of those it sentences.