Brent Sikkema, who based the Manhattan gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co, was discovered useless in Rio de Janeiro on Monday (15 January), based on Brazilian media studies. Sikkema was 75. Sikkema Jenkins & Co confirmed his loss of life in an announcement.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that the gallery proclaims the passing of our beloved founder, Brent Sikkema,” the gallery mentioned in an announcement posted to its web site Tuesday (16 January). “The gallery grieves this large loss and can proceed on in his spirit.”
The case is being investigated as a murder by police in Rio de Janeiro, based on CNN Brasil, which additionally reported Sikkema was found useless Monday night time with stab wounds which will have been attributable to a weapon resembling scissors, a field cutter or a screwdriver. The residence the place Sikkema was discovered is positioned in Jardim Botânico, an upscale, leafy neighbourhood of Rio.
Sikkema was born in 1948 and raised in Illinois. After attending the San Francisco Artwork Institute, he was employed because the exhibitions director on the Visible Research Workshop in Rochester, New York in 1971. He labored at Imaginative and prescient Gallery in Boston between 1976 and 1989. After relocating to New York Metropolis in 1981, he co-founded a recent artwork gallery in Soho, then known as Wooster Gardens. The gallery moved to Chelsea in 1999 and later modified its title to Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co is one in every of New York’s most outstanding galleries, and notably represents Jeffrey Gibson, who will characterize the US at this yr’s Venice Biennale. The gallery has additionally labored with artists like Sheila Hicks, Vik Muniz, Kara Walker, Maria Nepomuceno and Louis Fratino.
