Jeffrey Perkins
Lot #007
My Taxi Driver License (with Nam June Paik 1995 sign) 1995
Print on paper
Value: Priceless
Est. $400 - $600
Aquired directly from the artist
Artist Bio
Nicknamed “the Fluxus cabdriver” by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over four decades, having collaborated in the 1960s with Fluxus artists including George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles. Until recently he was best known for his light projection performances and his “Movies for the Blind” (based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his cab). He recently completed a documentary, The Painter Sam Francis, an endeavor that was itself 40 years in the making. He continues to do performance art, most recently at X-Initiative and Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, and his artwork was most recently on view at Front Desk Apparatus Space in New York.
Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art