In keeping with Brazilian media stories, Brent Sikkema, the founding father of Manhattan gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co, was discovered useless in Rio de Janeiro on Monday (January 15). Sikkema is 75 years previous. Sikkema Jenkins & Co confirmed his dying in an announcement.
“It’s with nice disappointment that the gallery broadcasts the passing of our beloved founder Brent Sikma,” the gallery stated in an announcement. posted to its web site on Tuesday (Jan. 16). “The gallery is deeply saddened by this nice loss and can proceed to uphold his legacy.”
In keeping with Rio de Janeiro police, the case is being investigated as a murder. CNN BrazilThe newspaper additionally reported that Sikma was discovered useless on Monday evening with stab wounds, probably brought on by a weapon equivalent to scissors, a field cutter or a screwdriver. The condominium the place Sikma was discovered is positioned in Jardim Botânico, an unique, tree-lined neighborhood in Rio.
Sikkema was born in 1948 and grew up in Illinois. After graduating from the San Francisco Artwork Institute, he was employed in 1971 as exhibition director on the Visible Research Studio in Rochester, New York. From 1976 to 1989 he labored on the Visible Gallery in Boston. After shifting to New York Metropolis in 1981, he co-founded a recent artwork gallery in SoHo, then referred to as Worcester Gardens. The gallery moved to Chelsea in 1999 and later modified its identify to Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co is one among New York’s most distinguished galleries, notably agent Jeffrey Gibson, who will symbolize america at this 12 months’s Venice Biennale. The gallery additionally collaborates with artists equivalent to Sheila Hicks, Vik Muniz, Kara Walker, Maria Nepomuceno and Louis Fratino.
